Years ago when I got my bike licence, back in the days when all you had to do was sit a theory test and have a Traffic Officer wedge himself in his black and white car and follow you around the block, I had a Kwaka 600. I'd been racing offroad for a few years and there was no way I was going to ride a 250 hence the purchase of the 600. After a few tickets due to my racing licence apparantly being no good for use on the road, i thought i'd get legal. A nice traffic officer on the Nth Shore agreed to let me sit on my 600, doubt whether they'd be that lenient today
Anyway I turned up for the practical and there was a guy there with L plates on a shiny new GN250. He took one look at me on the 600 and said "I don't know whether I'll be able to keep up with you". I just about fell over laughing and casually reminded him that we were both sitting a licence test being closely followed by a cop and I was pretty sure he would be able to stay with me as I observed the legal limit of 50km/hr![]()
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