long story short - I survived my most scarey bike moment - yes even more scarey than those bloody u turns
bike got serviced on Saturday and I'm riding along afterwards, as you do, when I get a sudden and total loss of power - no warning - thought my chain had snapped at first - got that kind of looseness I get when that happens on the pedal powered bike - but that wasn't it - the whole thing went kind of deathly quiet
I managed to keep it upright - wobbled a fair old bit though - and get it to the side of the road without either falling off or being hit by anything
anyway it turned out to be a trapped breather tube - didn't know whether to be proud of myself for not dying or thump the mechanic for being an idiot and not putting things back together properly
Now in a car I'd have flicked my hazards - not an option on the bike - so how can you best warn people behind you have a major problem - I was too scared to lift my hand off the bars because I was trying to keep my balance and just a teeny bit scared - and just seeing my brake lights didn't seem to have any effect on the person behind who got dangerously close before noticing I was in trouble
About a mile up the road it seized. He was fine but went back to the garage with letters addressed to every bike magazine going, explaining what had happened and he threatened to send them if the garage didn't offer him something good. One free V-Max for him.
