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Quite a lot has happened over this past week - considering I am self-isolating
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I had a Zoom Video meeting with my assigned Sue Ryder Palliative Care Nurse yesterday. She wanted to check to see how I’m getting on, and ensure that I am prepared for my “Telephone Consultation” with Oncology on Monday. It takes me a long time to figure people out sometimes, and I’m still not quite sure what her angle is. I go away from the meeting still feeling somewhat bewildered by her line of questioning. On a more practical note however, she did say that if I am stopped and question by the Police when I am out riding Motor or Mountain bike, to tell them that my Palliative Care Nurse instructed me that I need to be out getting “one form of exercise a day”.
In other news, I’m not one for spontaneity, but I guess this falls into that category or perhaps just a slightly impulsive move on my part, but under the circumstances.....
I traded in my 2006 ZX-6R for a 2017 model on Tuesday.
Getting the motorbike in the first place was an experiment to see if I could still handle one and enjoy it, which I can, and I do. I felt so immediately at ease on the one that I bought, but it had all the rattles and shakes of a bike that is 14 years old. A newer model is crisper, tighter, lighter, more refined and nicer to ride. I got it from the Kawasaki dealership that is on the former Greenham Common Air Base. They are not allowed to have anyone in the showroom :roll: , so they bought two of them down to my place in the back of a van for me to choose between them . They gave me a good trade in price for mine, which was a surprise. Anyway, it makes me feel better, which is the most important thing right now.
The bike was delivered yesterday just as it started raining, so I had to wait until the evening when it finally stopped before I could take it out.
It does feel remarkably different from the old one, which I guess shouldn't surprise me. When I consider how two Kona bikes from different years can handle, despite being the same model.
Anyway, it seems a lot more predicable with its handling, and does feel like the geometry has slightly altered; er... improved? Again the mountain bike comparison springs to mind. It was still wet on the roads yesterday evening, so I haven't properly tried it out yet, but maybe later today I hopefully will - rain forecast all morning, but drier later.
These three were taken in Bucklebury, where I grew up, and I did visit mum’s grave in the village, which could be considered essential travel .
2017 ZX6R 170420 by Philip Mock, on Flickr
2017 ZX6R 170420_1 by Philip Mock, on Flickr
2017 ZX6R 170420_2 by Philip Mock, on Flickr
This last one was taken by a neighbour, which does show off the actual colour better than my cheap camera. I also mention this after poor THM had his place broken into. If it is the case that any Crims are cruising this site looking for potential booty, and they have figured out where I am from previous posts – well tough luck buster, my bike is not kept at Pip’s palace. It’s safe in a locked garage some distance from here.
2017 ZX6R 170420 Marks by Philip Mock, on Flickr
Sleep is still all over the place - check the posting time :shock:
Pip
Quite a lot has happened over this past week - considering I am self-isolating
.I had a Zoom Video meeting with my assigned Sue Ryder Palliative Care Nurse yesterday. She wanted to check to see how I’m getting on, and ensure that I am prepared for my “Telephone Consultation” with Oncology on Monday. It takes me a long time to figure people out sometimes, and I’m still not quite sure what her angle is. I go away from the meeting still feeling somewhat bewildered by her line of questioning. On a more practical note however, she did say that if I am stopped and question by the Police when I am out riding Motor or Mountain bike, to tell them that my Palliative Care Nurse instructed me that I need to be out getting “one form of exercise a day”.
In other news, I’m not one for spontaneity, but I guess this falls into that category or perhaps just a slightly impulsive move on my part, but under the circumstances.....
I traded in my 2006 ZX-6R for a 2017 model on Tuesday.
Getting the motorbike in the first place was an experiment to see if I could still handle one and enjoy it, which I can, and I do. I felt so immediately at ease on the one that I bought, but it had all the rattles and shakes of a bike that is 14 years old. A newer model is crisper, tighter, lighter, more refined and nicer to ride. I got it from the Kawasaki dealership that is on the former Greenham Common Air Base. They are not allowed to have anyone in the showroom :roll: , so they bought two of them down to my place in the back of a van for me to choose between them
. They gave me a good trade in price for mine, which was a surprise. Anyway, it makes me feel better, which is the most important thing right now.The bike was delivered yesterday just as it started raining, so I had to wait until the evening when it finally stopped before I could take it out.
It does feel remarkably different from the old one, which I guess shouldn't surprise me. When I consider how two Kona bikes from different years can handle, despite being the same model.
Anyway, it seems a lot more predicable with its handling, and does feel like the geometry has slightly altered; er... improved? Again the mountain bike comparison springs to mind. It was still wet on the roads yesterday evening, so I haven't properly tried it out yet, but maybe later today I hopefully will - rain forecast all morning, but drier later.
These three were taken in Bucklebury, where I grew up, and I did visit mum’s grave in the village, which could be considered essential travel
.2017 ZX6R 170420 by Philip Mock, on Flickr2017 ZX6R 170420_1 by Philip Mock, on Flickr2017 ZX6R 170420_2 by Philip Mock, on FlickrThis last one was taken by a neighbour, which does show off the actual colour better than my cheap camera. I also mention this after poor THM had his place broken into. If it is the case that any Crims are cruising this site looking for potential booty, and they have figured out where I am from previous posts – well tough luck buster, my bike is not kept at Pip’s palace. It’s safe in a locked garage some distance from here.
2017 ZX6R 170420 Marks by Philip Mock, on FlickrSleep is still all over the place - check the posting time :shock:
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