I’ve been getting a few messages here and there via LondonBikers.com about my R1 from people who have seen similar bikes, or suspicious characters etc. Some people have actually gone as far as to take a photo of the bike and call the police to check the registration number! It’s good to know that some people in the world have a sense of decency still. To be honest, I doubt that any trace of the bike will ever be found. I had a 6 month old R6 stolen about 3 years ago and I never heard anything about that.
I still miss my R1 badly, even though I have the KTM now. Every other night I get flashbacks of what happened and I kick myself for not having had the presence of mind to do more. I could have knocked the guy off the bike when I chased him, I could have hit him harder, I could have remembered some of the martial arts I learnt and fought back to protect my pride and joy. I know it was just a bike, but it seemed more than that. As I mentioned in a previous post, if I have to explain how I felt about it, you wouldn’t understand.
It saddens me to know that there are people in this world who seem to think that it’s their god-given right to take things that don’t belong to them; Things that people have worked hard and made sacrifices for. Then, to add insult to injury, when others try to bring these people to account for what they’ve done, more often than not, they get away with it (and think it’s funny).
Still, in the messages that I receive from time to time saying, “Sorry about what happened” or, “I spotted a bike like yours last night…” there’s a glimmer of hope that decent people still exist and society isn’t going to run itself into the ground completely.
I believe in karma. Not because of some natural force or all powerful deity, but simply because of the fact that if you have no respect for anybody, then in turn nobody will have any respect for you, and I believe that somewhere, sometime, the scum that took my bike will get their comeuppance, and I will probably be enjoying life riding around on my brand new R1 at the time. 