Bike mishaps, theft, etc

Quote from Rice

Give wild chase, of course!

Nope, I'd ignore it because of the chances of the scrote being armed.

By the way, as everyone knows, any tramite (paperwork exercise) here is often a soul-destroying experience, but fortunately this appears to have started well due to the lack of people out and about, so fingers crossed.

But I do wonder why they have to make it so complicated (stupid me!) and believe it or not, my bike has its own file, indicating just how much bureaucracy in this country is handled manually.

All countries handles this differently of course. When I needed to replace a plate back in the UK, I went to Halfords - a car accessories store - showed them my vehicle registration document and bought a plate for about £5 (now £16 each).

That's good to hear @JAN

I'll stick with my $200 plastic version that the printers knocked up for me.

Talk about taking us for a ride!

I turned up at the vehicle registry this morning, signed a few forms, paid $1245 for a new plate and a carnet with permit to ride without a plate.

Check out the cost of the flimsy aluminium plate and all the other charges and I still have to wait three weeks for it. I'll probably keep the new plate in a safe place and carry on with my homemade ones until I get read the riot act.

Never stay seated on your bike when buying petrol.

Not a good idea

The bike and I parted company on Wednesday in the rain after tapping the front brakes when a car in front suddenly put its hazard lights on and stopped dead in front of me.

Result: bike goes down on top of me, shoulder and head hit the deck very hard and it's still raining. Anyway, the engine was still running so I flicked the off switch and before I knew it a helpful Venezuelan passer by lifted the bike off me because none of the cars behind me stopped to assist.

I was travelling about 10-15kmh at the time and if that's an indication of force, I pity those that don't wear helmets. The shoulder still bothers me a little, but yesterday the Ibuprofen helped considerably.

Nothing broken, the bike is fine (always is) so I'll be back to deliveries today.

By the way. Paracetamol with an analgesic effect are best avoided if you don't want to spend the day like a zombie. They are incredibly powerful at 500mg.

Feels better today, so I got back on the horse.

Everyone's in a hurry and driving with their phones in the other hand.