Shopping Trip
It’s been a while since I posted, because the Z750 has been nowhere for a while. Today though my wife needed some shopping so I offered to take her on the Kawasaki, and to my surprise not only did she accept but also decided we should go a little further than the local Tesco to give the Twin a run.
So it was that we went to Asda near Bletchley. As the Kawasaki’s twin cylinders hadn’t breathed fire for a while I thought it may need some coaxing back to the land of the living. I switched on the ignition, and hit the starter button expecting nothing. The lazy starter turned slowly once, and on the second lot of compression the Z750 fired up.
Knowing there was not much fuel I hit the kill switch, and pulled the heavy lump up the hill out of the drive backwards, and onto the road. We both suited up and got back on the bike, which again started on the button with one push. We were off, bound for the supermarket. A nice leisurely ride saw us there in just a few minutes, and parked. While the missus went off for the provisions I checked just how low the petrol was. Lets just say we’d made it to our destination, which luckily had a fuel station on site as we wouldn’t have gone much further.
The wife returned with her booty, and we forced the rucksack to take more than it should (I’m sure she must have forgotten we weren’t in the car). Back on ole Betsy which started again on the button, and round the corner to the filling station. Packed with cars, but on the bike we could jump ahead while the back ones were waiting for the pumps to clear.
Its thirst quenched we headed for home on the Kawasaki. At one stage we were even overtaking cars, and no complaints from the wife either. Then it was home again, and put away for later. Hope we get some more good weather soon.