To the car wash

[MooN]

Sun is out, temps are 5deg c + and the bike is filthy from last weeks foray onto the cruddy winter roads. So, To the car wash we go. It only took me about an hour and a half to ride the 10 minute trip to the wash, but In my defence I took the scenic route

I reversed this route Ok I didn't reverse the bike round this route, but the map shows the start and finish the wrong way round and gives it a clockwise direction. I rode it anticlockwise. Clear? 

to te north of Auxerre the countryside is more open than I normally ride, but that way the surfaces were pretty much dried by sun and wind whereas in the woods where I usually hide it would still be cold and damp. 

 

 

 

When I eventually got to the jetwash thingy it was bloody heaving, the continually sub zero temperatures we've had for the last few weeks have prevented any car washing activities so I guess I had just had the same idea as everybody else. There was an 8 carr queue for the 4 pressure washer bays and another 6 waiting for the 2 roller wash porticos. after about 2 minutes sat in line I realised that the 4th and farthest was bay had no one in it but that none of the cars could get past the first in line who was so close to bay n03 that he could no longer manouvre for bay 4...whilst I was deciding whether I could jump the queue or not, 2 police bikes came in, rode up alongside the line and straight into bay 4. Beat me to it the bastards was the phrase forming in my mind when I saw one of them walk out of the bay, point at me and wave me on around the queue of cars. As I pulled up behind them ( both their bikes in the bay side by side, the gendarme said to me, " if they're all fucking stupid enough to not work that out then they deserve to wait"  

A pair of blue liveried TDM's of the Gendarmerie, and a happy Tigrou. 

 100 od km's and 2 hours by the time I'd mucked about fuelling, taking photo's and hobnobbing with the poilce. 

[XTreme]

Nice one Chris......but you left it dirty since last week? 

[Pedro]

You're sitting in line with an empty spot available only for bikes? After 10 seconds waiting, cars forfeit their rights!

Are those really TDMs? They look odd from the back.

 

Nice smooth fields, I like those in France!

[MooN]

13 hours ago, XTreme said:

Nice one Chris......but you left it dirty since last week? 

 I don't have a garage Pete and the temperatures all week have been steadily below freezing, the car washes all shut down and there's no point washing it in the dark at home. 

11 hours ago, Pedro said:

You're sitting in line with an empty spot available only for bikes? After 10 seconds waiting, cars forfeit their rights!

Are those really TDMs? They look odd from the back.

 

Nice smooth fields, I like those in France!

The only reason thee was an empty spot is coz the car drivers are thick as pigshit and from the end of the queue you can4t see if there's someone in the end bay or not, I hapenned to notice that rotary arm of the pressure washer that you can see above the walls wasn't moving... the gendarmes came past that end before turning in so obviously saw it was empty. 

They are TDM's. 900's i believe but the back end is adapted specifically to accomodate the Gendarme's equipement ( radio antenna, lights, pole light, fire extinguisher etc. 

[boboneleg]

I'm loving the look of that road @MooN  ,  I could see myself blasting up there on the Tenere

 

[XTreme]

1 hour ago, MooN said:

 I don't have a garage Pete

Worst nightmare for me that is!

[MooN]

4 hours ago, boboneleg said:

I'm loving the look of that road @MooN  ,  I could see myself blasting up there on the Tenere

 

 funny that, I think I was doing about 140km/h by the time I had to brake for that first righ hander...