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Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)
too busy living life - HAPPILY too.
So I hear!
You might want to try interviewing with amateur journalists who can spell and grammatise, though.
Still, you sound fascinating...
A candid interview with Bloody Mad Woman
A chilly breeze and a view of the houses that overlook oriental parade sets the scene for my interview/ lunch and coffee date with one of KB's more prominent members of late. A tall, strikingly confident blonde woman throws her head back and laughs as i question her on her ambitions for the VMCC and *that* conversation with Eddie the Fag. Chain smoking she tells me of the latest love in her life, a tall handomse and distinguished man, but she is truely happy when talking about biking.
"I once rode for seven or eight hours straight."
Up through the coromandel, mind you, i didnt realise it was the coromandel until afterwards, and i didn't catch any of the views.
"But you know I've slowed down a bit after my accident"
What do you mean, slowed down to the speed limit? More laughter, "Yes."
She has been riding for most of her life, and says wistfully that if she had another smaller bike than her current 1200cc she would love to get back onto the track. You would be brilliant i tell her.
"Well I have been told before that I have very nice race lines."
I try and convince her that she could be set up for 5k, but being conservative about her financial state she declines, offering it as maybe a three year goal, I hold my tounge at suggesting to go for a VMCC 150cc sponsorship.
The anecdotes that have become memorable spurt forth freely, especially to do with sex, but i don't mind, it's better than politics and religion. Mr. distinguished is remaining nameless, no matter how much i probe, he remains shrouded in mystery. To keep her life free from the 'responsibility' of having a full time man, once bitten twice shy pops into my head, she leads a carefree life complete with pants suit.
Managing to be both vulnerable and endearing she paints the picture of one of her past track days. She did some 'gardening' and recalled how the boyfriend of the time pillioned her around the track first and she got hyped up, and then managed to run the bike into the ground, hence the term gardening. I'd love to see her go around the track on a propperly set up 600, i bet she'd go like a bat out of hell. She has the temprement for it, cool, calm and collected whilst being fiercely competitive, even if it is with herself. She retreats into the shy persona,
"I'm not very good in crowds."
Trying to ween me off the track day idea. I run with it, telling her how motoTT do marshal for half a day and ride for free, but she sidesteps the issue with the lack of appropriate bike. But one day i think she will get out there and it will be the best medication for her.
If you asked her where would she see herself in five years time i would postulate that it wouldn't be in the city, she might have settled down somewhere quite with a nice, grounded man; you can take the girl out of the city but never the city out of the girl. This may ring true for a lady with plenty of new KB aquaintences, adversaries and friends, which is a site that helps form many relationships and friendships, for the people where above everything else, like Shirl, motorbiking is a hobbie, a passtime and a passion.
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- mikey
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