Old Bike Australasia

Flight of the Damn Foole

I have fallen in love twice. Once was with a woman, the other was with an object. Well, others said she was inanimate, but they were not on intimate terms like me.

I knew better. She combined the best attributes of supermodel and muscular female athlete. Sexy, but with a brutal, dangerous edge, she was as desirable as the hottest woman on the planet, and I rode her at every possible opportunity. “She” was a Yamaha TT 500 dirt bike and she was a man-killer.

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