A BIT OF EVERYTHING
A FEW YEARS AGO (ACTUALLY, A FEW decades now that I think of it) I was on a ride with the late lamented Jeremy Bowdler. We were taking the back way from Sydney down to Holbrook – the very back way – and I encountered a causeway on a gravel road near Rockley. The stream was muddy and looked about three inches deep, and I braked and then accelerated gently when both wheels of the BMW R 100 RT I was riding were in the water.
The bike went into a tank slapper and I went over the windscreen, stopping just long enough to break my collarbone. Those RT windscreens were tough! Jeremy parked before the causeway and nearly
