Due to some rather expert ebay bidding I yesterday won a nice low mileage blue Triumph Sprint ST which I am planning to raid my savings for and pick up on Friday. I am already dreaming of that ride home up the A1M. Here are the ebay pics which really don’t do it justice. Just sitting on it and hearing it start up as I did the other evening made me realise how much more solid it is than my Bandit 600.

As an ex-nurse this advert jumped out at me for what looks like one of those eerie hissing air-filled ripple mattresses that we used to nurse very ill or boney patients on. Now it looks like being moribund is no longer a barrier to enjoying motorcycling: