Rode hard and put away wet…

That’s probably the best way to describe this bike.   I spotted it on my most recent adventure, parked in an outlying area of one of China’s largest cities…

There’s something about a well used and well worn machine that looks cool, and if patina sets the bar, the bike above is off the charts!

I was in Guangzhou, the same name you see on the tank above.  The bike was right outside the police station.   The police use 125s over there, and I guess that’s good enough for them.   It’s kind of funny, really.   Most of our police bikes have more than 10 times that displacement.

I’m just about back on US time after getting home very early Sunday morning.  We had heavy rain nearly the entire time I was overseas (trust me on this…monsoon season in the tropics is no fun), and that’s the reason for the blue hue in the photo above.   The flight back to LA had me squeezed into an A380 for 14 hours, and that was after weather delays of several hours in China.  The A380 is a monster of an airplane…it seats over 800 passengers and with that capacity you can guess the seats were tiny.   It sure felt good to be back in the USA after being sardined in that big ol’ tin can!

That’s it for now, folks.   I’ve got an errand or two to run this morning and I’m going to do it on the Baja Blaster.  You can bet mine won’t have the scrapes and scratches you see on the bike above!