You might recall that, some time ago, as part of my “Orphans” series, I detailed the sad story of Yamaha’s attempts to create two new-world parallel twin bikes, the TX750 and the TX500. The 500 is a bike that is particularly close to my heart as it is the very first bike I ever rode, as I detailed in the article.
Well, it was brought home to me this week just how world-wide the world-wide web is when I received a message from a gentleman living in Salzburg, in Germany, saying that he really liked the article and would he mind if he provided a link to it on his web site that was dedicated to the two Yamaha twins. Of course I said that was OK and today he sent me the link to his site.
I guess that I am a bit of an anorak but this sort of stuff always interests me. I hope you find it interesting too.
On a note closer to home I’ve been very busy this week. My singing calendar has meant that I have 4 concerts booked this week. Yesterday I did a group concert with the guys at the Marco Polo home in Wonoona,
We had the whole gang on hand (minus “The Phantom” – he had to work) and it was a really good show. Poor Henry has been suffering from a dose of the flu and only managed (just) to get through two of his allotted three songs before having to call it quits but the rest of us had a few spare songs up our collective sleeves so we filled in the hour well. The crowd at MP are very responsive and doing a concert there is always fun.
Incidentally, to show the “quality” of my friends, someone applied their PhotoShop skills to the photo that Helena took of me at that concert at Nowra last week. I don’t get no respect.
So today it was a solo gig at the IRT at The Links in Wollongong, another of my favourite shows, they are a really good audience.
Tomorrow is a rest day and I’m going to need it because on Friday I have TWO one hour concerts, both at the same venue but to different audiences. Then I think I might take a break 🙂
A few weeks ago I told you about my brother’s incident up on the Putty road that did some pretty serious damage to his bike. Well, the insurance company has come good and, rather than writing the bike off, as we all thought they would, they have decided to fix it. The fairing panel is on back-order from Japan and could take a while but the bike should be back on the road with some makeshift repairs in a week or so. It would have been such a shame to waste all this great riding weather.
Marc Marquez turned 27 the other day; scary to think just how much more that he may be able to achieved if he remains healthy and passionate about his racing.
That’s about all today, catch you next time.