Sunday, October 19, 2014

A little Fall detour, and a little fall...


Roland: every Saturday I go out for a breakfast hunt (Croissants, pretzels, buns), but this time we had the most beautiful fall morning, so I decided to grab Bella and do a short round through the neighborhood. Fog was about to be eaten up by early rays of the sun, the air was fresh and clean, and all colors looked like from a laundry detergent ad. Beautiful!



On my way back I noticed a beautiful cloud of fog over a field right next to the road, so I decided to ride up a little dirt track to get there for a photo. There was a little hill to climb first, and I gave throttle a little more than I usually would. Unfortunately the field behind the hill was still soaking wet from the rainfalls of the last few days, and the ground was slippery like soap. I knew right away that I had no chance: as soon a the wheels started to slip I knew that I would lay Bella down for the first time. Luckily she slipped on a lot of grass; unfortunately there must have been a little stone hidden somewhere in the grass. There is minor damage, but nothing that could not be covered by a little paint job that was on schedule for this winter anyway. Looks like my first sliding ended up quite lucky!



11 comments:

  1. Super way to start the week! We are still waiting for sun and blue skies to come and stay for a whole day. You are still very green there!

    All things on earth fall over- always or eventually. Glad your scratch was just a scratch.

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    1. Martha, we had a few really beautiful days recently, with temperatures up to 26 Celsius (almost 80 F) which is highly unusual for end of October. Bella forgave me my mistake, she continued running like a young horse!

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  2. Beautiful pictures of the fog rising.

    Bummer about the little wee scratch, but at least you had paint plans anyway. Glad it wasn't worse.

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    1. Yes, I was very lucky as it was my stupidity in the first place. I should have been much more cautious considering that there was fog on the field.

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  3. Wonderful colors especially after the fog lifted. Tiny scratch, if you hadn't mentioned it no one would've noticed. Maybe time for a sticker until painted. Isn't that why motorcycles have stickers?

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    1. Richard, I actually have a few stickers that I wanted to apply anyway (mainly flags of the countries where Bella has been so far), maybe I will follow your advice and hide the scratches!

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  4. Thanks, David! Bella's right side anyway had a few scratches (when Sonja was riding her once in BC) so it does not make that much of a difference. But good to know about the no-rust thing!

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  5. Glad you weren't injured. Bella can be fixed.....

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    1. I was glad too that it happened on grass. So no problem at all! I was also surprised how easy it is to put a Vespa back into upright position. Like a bicycle!

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  6. oh no, poor Bella :-/. Hope you can get it fixed without spending to much money. But wonderful pictures :-).

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  7. Yikes, glad you're okay. Happens to all of us eventually. :-)

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