FROM THE CAVE BEAR FACED

Australian Motorcyclist Issue #35

• BORIS YOUR EDITOR
• FROM THE CAVE BEAR FACED
• NEW BIKE PRICES
• WHAT SAY YOU?
• CLASSIC MORRIS EVER ONWARD WITH LESTER
• MOTORCYCLIST TOURS EXPERIENCE PURE NIRVANA
• ADV TEAR-OUT MAP #20 LET THE RECORDS FALL
• TRAVEL BIKE TOWN
• TOP TOURS & TRAVEL DON’T KNOW WHERE TO GO?
• PUBS OF THE MONTH THREE FOR THE PRICE OF ONE
• TRAVEL FIVE PUNTS
• TAKE IT TO THE STREET
• THE FUTURE VISION ZERO
• NEW BIKES FOR 2016 Special Feature
• PASSING STRANGE
• LAUNCH
• LONG TERMERS
• EVENT
• KTM 1050 ADVENTURE
• ROAD TEST: URAL cT COMBINATION
• DUCATI MULTISTRADA 1200 S DVT
• NEWS
• GRIZZLING
• EDITOR SPEAKS

OH, BAD(?) LUCK

You do not have to have lots of horsepower to pull spectacular crashes. I once ran a rented Mobylette into a construction ditch in Tahiti after eating too much raw fish marinated in lime juice at Harry’s Bar. Sampling all those different rum cocktails might have had something to do with it, too.

For all I know, I’m the only person ever to get any air on a Mobylette. The mild power output plus the location of the engine – over the front wheel – combine to make it an earthbound vehicle indeed.

Except when you ride it up a berm of dirt left by a road crew and into the resulting ditch that they have been lining with concrete. I flew for a fraction of a second, much like a superannuated albatross, and then disappeared face first.