Nice story Mark
'Steve' could have been anywhere, but with 'Jane' I knew where you were
My Wednesday was my first day on the bike in this snowfall. I wheeled it out of the garage and carryied on pushing it onto the road & then along that road to the next road which was a bit more in use & parked up on a black bit, thinking this was tarmac. But it definetely was not as it was slippy underfoot and selecting first gear with the clutch fully engaged was enough to spin up the back tyre & skip sideways
I then carried on down that road on the snow with a bus right behind me but nice enough not to pressure me a I rode down in first with the engine idling (gawd I'm such a speed merchant
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