The Bandit in the Shed
Drove out past Innishannon on Saturday to look at a Suzuki Bandit some fella was selling out of a shed. Forty minutes each way just to look at a bike, and I still went, because that is apparently where I am at these days. Told my brother I was only going for a look and even I did not believe myself saying it.The bike itself was grand. A bit of surface rust on the exhaust from sitting out one winter too many, but the engine turned over first go and did not sound rough at all. The fella was decent about it too, no hard sell, just talked me through what he had done to it and left me to poke around on my own. He let me take it up the road and back, out past the church and down towards the river, and for about ten minutes I actually forgot I was only there to look.Then it started lashing rain t...