Maybe none are being sold as most have been wiped out from accidents, they call them widowmakers for a reason, when I was 17/18 years old they were building a new highway through a cutting where we rode our dirt bikes, the road had just been bitumen and this section was 3 or 4 km long, a mate was asked to take one for a run along the new section with expansion chambers, I could hear him from a distant getting closer and he had it flat out, ringing its neck, the last bend just before me he came out in a big death wobble at high speed and before he knew it, it spat him off, was well over the ton the bike and himself just slid down the road towards me and he came to a stop down below where I was watching it all happen and the bike was still sliding.
I raced down to him he had blood everywhere from road rash and a broken arm, I helped him up and asked me to help him to the bike where he started to kick the fu cker before taking him to the hospital the owner of the bike live just on that bend in the road and was running towards us, he had a big hole in his left shoulder and wasn't wearing a leather jacket, just jeans, a T shirt but lucky had boots on and a shitful helmet.
47 years later we are still mates and he still has that big scare on his left shoulder that reminds him of that day, it took ages to heal up and he remember the pain he went through when the nurse was scrubbing the gravel out of the wounds, he told me after the accident he tried to power out of the death wobble but it just got worst.
Ashley
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