Part 3. Roads Less Travelled - Wet and Wild

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Great writing Ptyl. You guys write so darn well, I can just follow along. 46 degrees today in New England - I stopped by the East Coast USA famous, Bettencourts Honda today. Mark Bettencourt was there manning the sales front. I was sitting on the 125cc Grom as it is called. Mark yells over, "You wanna test ride it?! Come on in and I'll give you a jacket and helmet." He hands me the keys, throws on a plate and off I go down the street on a modern day version of the old SL70 with the cylinder jutting out in front. Soon I was up to 35 mph with more to spare and when I braked for my first sharp corner into a side street, the little wheels fell into the corner immediately and gave me an, Ohhhh!, so that's how it works! I cruised a couple of miles on the backroads with a big grin on my face. The machine was perfect for such speeds. The essence of fun. One stop sign after another I knocked it down a few of the four gears, stopped and then cracked it up thru the nearly new gearbox again. A tad of lean and I was bolting thru a corner listening to that 125cc's wirbling along beneath me. Whommmmmmp! Wommmmmmp! Woooooomp! I pulled in to the parking lot and said to Mark, "That was excellent!" He then told me a story of he himself a day earlier passing a parked cop at 45mph and saying under his helmet, "Oooops!" 35 mph zone. Just grommin around!