Powderpuff Chinese Crested

It's good to be easy riding out west

THE day had started with a bang! Well, more of a slow hiss actually. The valve stem on the front wheel of my Yamaha Drag Star snapped in two as I was trying to pump up the tyre.

It looked like my planned day out with the Caithness Cappuccino Cowboys had been kiboshed.

And then with a dramatic swish into the filling station car park rode my Good Samaritan in the form of Ewan Gentry – although, resplendent in leathers on his all-black Suzuki 850 rat bike, he looked more like a Dark Knight!

Calmly he took control of the situation and a mobile phone call was made to AMS Motorcycles in Wick’s Coach Road. Yes, staff were busy but they could come and recover my deflated bike – and ego.

Meantime Brian Yellop (aka BY) and Michael Ball (aka Tritonthrasher) began to formulate plan B. Moira, at AMS, had confirmed she had a spare 19-inch replacement tube... if BY could collect it, Tritonthraher suggested he would replace the old one at his house in South Road – just a few hundred yards push away.

Thunderbirds are go!

All I had to do was get the bike to Tritonthrasher’s gaff. And life, I was discovering, is full of Good Samaritans as two blokes passing by grabbed the Drag Star’s sissy bar and helped shove me along the way. The bike weighed a ton with a flat tyre. It was the most intensive cardiovascular workout I’ve had for years!

Not many Chinese crested powder puffs can get away with wearing pirate-patterned bandanas. Especially if their name is Chico! But no-one had told the spirited Chico that. Tritonthrasher and his partner Nikki’s wee fellow is an ideal guard dog. Yelps a lot... but he’s more bluff and bluster and just wants to be friends and part of the action, I’m discovering.

BY and Tritonthrasher set to the task at hand; removing the front wheel, separating the brake callipers and removing the tyre to replace the tube. I prefer a less hands-on approach to mechanics having an innate aversion to grease... but what a pair of backstreet heroes those two are!

AN hour later we’re back on schedule and heading to the Craggan Inn, at Talmine, on Sutherland’s north coast for lunch. The roads are dry so we can get our motors runnin’ although the “weather guaranteed” forecast I’d promised was proving less reliable as an ever-dampening mist began to close in like a grey shroud.

We passed the cinderised roadside verge beyond Reay where last weekend two touring Italian motorcyclists were killed in a horrific road accident. It’s a stark warning about the vulnerability of motorcycling.

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