[Ducati] run in with the law

[Brad Giddy]

Enjoyed the thread on the" Longest", Iam 55 and not even in the show!!.Tends to support my theory that the sooner you start the better chance you have of surviving, and theory 2 that you should ride to your ability and not the guy your chasing..


        Have not suffered to many majors with the law in OZ, however remember one instance when I was riding down Macquarie Pass (The road Wayne Gardiner learnt to ride on....world champion 1987 Rothmans nsr honda)..Guy comes the other way on one of those 4 cyclinder BMW's and was pushing pretty hard, so I chucked a U-turn and after him(hell this was MY territory).Its a particularly difficult and varying climb through a rainforrest and few center lines,blind corners , the works.I did not think I was going to catch him ,then all of a sudden a glimpse as he dissappears around the corner ahead. Thats it I'm flat strap and nearly threw it down the road when the left hand peg dug in, OOPS, finally pegged him and did a desperardo around the outside in a left hander (american equivalent ...around the outside on a right hander)  and I'm in front now and really pumped .Pulled up at the pie shop at the top ,the 900ss has been flogged, and only just get my hat off and the BM pulls up . Guy takes his hat off walks over to me and says "If I was doing my day job you would be in jail now".....such is life

    Just realised I blew theory 2 out of the water!!!   bye Brad