My old, much loved, much tweaked, improved and worked on Suzuki Burgman 400 has been stolen. Well, that sucks!

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When it was stolen it had the Tucano Urbano lap cover fitted underneath the estate agent sign side panels.

That top box was 20 years old. The bike was 10 years old. It had a battery charger, soldering iron and kit, 10 year old bike boots, Frank Thomas jacket inner, wooly hat, cap, glove inners, assorted bungees, an old favourite pair of waterproof trouser outers, several bags of nuts and bolts and no doubt some other random stuff in it. The backrest came from a last millenium Helix. The Givi screen had been much modified. The more I think about it, the more emotional investment there was there. So there's a large slice of Buddhist detachment needed here.

How did that happen? Work on somebody else's bike all day. Right outside a ground floor flat in Tower Hamlets down near Mile End in dodgy East London. 6pm go and get pizzas from Tescos. Return to park on the pavement right outside the flat in the same place it's been parked all day. Cook and eat the pizzas. Look out the kitchen to see the bike has gone. WTF? The bike's worthless (in the sense of what you'd get as a stolen bike or as parts rather than what it would cost to replace) and a bitch to hot wire. There really is almost nothing on it that's worth anything. I guess it's just disappeared into the local estates and will end up in the canal. They literally just pushed it away. The Police[1] will do what they can but unless it gets dumped somewhere obvious, I don't expect to see it again. I kind of hope it doesn't come back because it's bound to be broken in all kinds of new and not so interesting ways.

So shall I buy another one? Think I'll have a drink while I ponder that.

[1]Incidentally, the Met have another scam going. If you agree, and they find it, they'll put it in the pound. You get to pay for their collection and then by the day till you collect it. The alternative is they just tell you where it is.