LONG TERMERS
the car polished out. The other
Barkbuster had some almost invisible
scratches where it had encountered
the tar. You could literally not tell that
the bike had been in a crash except
for the lever and those few nearly
invisible marks in only two places.
Well done, all. But what about the
absentminded rider who had caused
the crash?
Let’s start from the bottom. I was
wearing my venerable pair of short
Rossi 814 boots; I’ve had these since
dinosaurs roamed the Earth and they
have protected me in more than one
encounter of the third kind. They
did it again this time, and although
the bike fell on my foot I sustained
no damage whatsoever to ankle or
foot. Au contraire, I protected the
bike with the boots. They are a bit
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of marks, which means that they
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could see.
In the trouser department I was
wearing Draggin Jeans Twista pants.
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to riding pants, although I do wear
them without the protectors; that way
they can easily pass as normal jeans.
Like the boots, the jeans did their job