So yesterday night just after buying new leather gloves etc. I pull into some estate on my pizza hut scoot and at what my driving school instructor would call a “pretty radical leaning angle for a moped”.
There’s a dodgy road surface with a little bit of crud on the road and without warning whoaaaaah I lowside the pizza bike and slide on the road for a bit on my hands and knees.
No big deal, scuffed my gloves and knees a bit, but since I was wearing leather and draggin jeans I came away with nothing but a few bruises. Good stuff because I would have shredded my hands big time otherwise.
Laughed, got back on the scooter and delivered the pizza. Coupla scuffs down the side of the scooter but my boss isn’t really bothered. Hooray for safety gear
Tonight I spent most of my shift at Pizza Hut practising stoppies – it’s amazingly simple with the 50cc Peugeot Lumix scooters we have. A spirited application of the front brake and a push on the handlebars will do the job, empty top box or not…One of the best was when a bunch of council estate style kiddies passed me on 125’s. I caught up with them at the next traffic light , lifted up the back about 3/4 of a metre and let it slam to the ground. You should have seen the look on their faces it was priceless!!
“Erm… I can’t do it on this mate it’s too heavy.”
Yeah… whatever kidz!
I’ve started to tell customers not to open their 2-litre bottles of Pepsi straight away if they tip me that is…
