and that’s an understatement.
The rain started last Thursday evening and hasn’t stopped. It’s been either misting or down pouring with strong winds every day since. It doesn’t look like we’ll get relief until Wednesday and even that’s iffy.
It’s been a crappy fall (I believe I’ve mentioned that), but there is some beauty around.
The change in the season has brought too many changes and too many problems. Any time I get to myself now I spend on bike, as long as it’s okay with Mother Nature. We are having a typical Maritime autumn with cold temperatures and gale force winds. There was barely enough time to see the leaves change before they were blown away.
As usual, I be pushing my riding season as far as I possibly can with hopes that the new fairing will make things more bearable when the temps drop below freezing. I can already notice a difference during my ride to work with my hands being mostly protected and the wind taken off my chest. Definitely no regrets on that purchase.
Really, it’s just the same shit happening all the time. There’s too much crap going on for me to be in a good mood to post anything. Winter is just around the corner which means I won’t even be able to use my bike to cool off or escape. I think I’ll probably just let this go dormant until something happens to make me the person I used to be…
ciao for now.
An Oromocto, N.B., man pleaded guilty Monday to charges laid after
he drove his car into a procession of motorcylists on their way to a
wedding in August, severely injuring five of the riders - including the
groom and his best friend.Matthew Francis, 27, was charged last week with driving without due
care and attention, and driving without insurance. He entered the
guilty pleas on his first appearance in Burton provincial court.He was fined a total of about $2,400, and his licence was suspended for four months.
Francis told the court his daughter in the back seat had distracted
him when he swerved across the centre line on Lincoln Road, smashing
into the motorcycle wedding procession.The crash happened Aug. 9 as 10 motorcyclists were heading to CFB Gagetown for a wedding.
The groom, Frank Bouchard, and his best friend, Alain Belanger,
suffered serious injuries in the crash just 20 minutes before the
wedding was to take place.Crown prosecutor Paul Hawkins told the court that witnesses agreed
that the red Ford Escort station wagon swerved across the centre line
of the two-lane highway, striking five of the motorcycles.He said there was no evidence that speed or alcohol contributed to the accident, and so criminal charges were not warranted.
Chief provincial court Judge Leslie Jackson called it a "tragic incident" where "momentary inattention had grave consequences."
Francis asked for four months to pay the fine because he is unemployed.
Two of the injured motorcyclists, including one man who lost his foot, were in court, but declined to comment.
The motorcyclists, members of a Fredericton-area club known as the
Passchendaele Unit, which is part of the Canadian Army Veteran
Motorcycle Units association, had planned the procession as a surprise
for the bride.
