Bike Down
Posted At: Tue 16 Sep 2008	Posted By: Derek Nobuyuki信幸 Wallace
Categories:Motorcycling , Stupid Cagers Rants , japan

16 October 2008
２００８年１０月１６日

先週、日本語のレッソンの後で　バイクにのった。
天王寺から　西に　まっすぐ行った。
すぐアパートの場所についたけど、帰りたくなかった。
それから　左へまがりました。
西へ行ったんだけどど。
どこへ行くのか、和からへんかった。
不思議なトンネルを見つけた。
「どうしたらいい？」と思った。
トンネルへ行った方が大丈夫か？
トンネルへ行ったんだけど、料金所を見つけた（〜＿＿＿〜）

とにかく、ATCの場所に行った。
帰り方は和からへんかった。
家に　つく時にバイクがこわれた。
いっぱい　Coolantが出た。（〜＿＿＿＿＿＿〜）

So yeah… 3 cars pushed me out of my lane!! BMW 7 series and Mercedes included…
People don’t look where they are going… don’t look before they move anywhere…
whether they are pedestrians, bicyclists, drivers, etc…
I’m surprised that more people don’t die from this… but already the numbers are too high.

Coolant leaking out of my bike…
I think the coolant overflow hose has ruptured…
but more importantly, I think the cooling system for my bike has been struggling to keep the temperature down.
Very often I can ride for maybe an hour before I have to pull over to let the bike cool down….

mind you… Osaka summers are quite hot…

We’ll see soon how the bike is when i am scheduled to get it back from the mechanic… soon…

but before that, I’ve been taking more random rides lately…

in the middle of the night… left at 1:30am and returned at 3:30am… what did I do?
I went to the convenience store… but in a completely different city (Sakai)

Or randomly riding around trying to avoid toll gates…
unfortunately, went through a tunnel and ran into a toll gate with no escape….

ah well… weather’s getting better… and temperatures are going down to below 30C…

hope to get some more riding in… yet have no idea what to do about bikes in the winter.. do we winterize?