A number of years ago I nearly became the owner of an almost split new Ducati. Driving up through France and we noticed a red Ducati passing us several times on the autoroute. The same one every time ?
We pulled into a services and there was this red Ducati parked up with the owner sitting beside it weeping profusely. I turned out the young man had made a pile of money somehow or other in London and had treated himself to the bike of his dreams. He'd ordered it from the factory, flown out and intended riding it home. But by the time he's got halfway through France the saddle had destroyed him. I commiserated with him and advised him to do the rest of the journey in short stages till his bum and the saddle got into synch. "No!" he said, "I'm never sitting on that fucking thing again !! Do you want it ? Here's the keys and here's the papers ! And I'll give you a grand if you'll run me to the nearest airport "
We ended up getting the gendarmerie to look after the bike and we gave the lad a run to the nearest 5 star hotel to let him recover his wits a bit.
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So, there you are, I might have had a Ducati even if the saddle crippled me.
We pulled into a services and there was this red Ducati parked up with the owner sitting beside it weeping profusely. I turned out the young man had made a pile of money somehow or other in London and had treated himself to the bike of his dreams. He'd ordered it from the factory, flown out and intended riding it home. But by the time he's got halfway through France the saddle had destroyed him. I commiserated with him and advised him to do the rest of the journey in short stages till his bum and the saddle got into synch. "No!" he said, "I'm never sitting on that fucking thing again !! Do you want it ? Here's the keys and here's the papers ! And I'll give you a grand if you'll run me to the nearest airport "
We ended up getting the gendarmerie to look after the bike and we gave the lad a run to the nearest 5 star hotel to let him recover his wits a bit.
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So, there you are, I might have had a Ducati even if the saddle crippled me.