Thumper in Flaming June

I’m not great at deferred gratification, but I’ll just have to deal with it. Yesterday I paid a deposit on the suzuki. I’ll pick it up next week.

This is what’s known as a thumper. That’s because it has just the one cylinder, a big, thumping 650cc cylinder. Apart from that, the bike is fairly lean, stripped back of most of its bodywork, quite light and tidy for the city, and it should also cope with some off road trails up into the hills.

It’s good to be back here in Spain, enjoying the blue skies and not thinking too much. Perhaps at some point I’ll tell the story of the remaining ageing parent in England, and how to grapple with narcissism and dementia.
But probably I’ll just ride the thumper up and down hills for a while in the winter sunshine.

I’ll be 55 next year, there’s not much time to waste.

Last updated November 01, 2016