December 20th, 2013

It was the Friday before Christmas, when all through the town, not a creature was stirring, not even a......well all except for the masses of people heading to Smithfield Meat Market this morning. It was absolutely rammed and this was at 04:40 in the morning! So many people who had no idea where to go. It was massively annoying frankly as I needed to get to work and they were blocking the access to my car park. The parking wardens seemed to be enjoying themselves, so I guess that's one thing. My journey had already gotten off to a bad start when I pulled into my local petrol station to find they had no fuel. I couldn't spend any serious time finding an alternate source and coupled with the closure of the A1 in Holloway, I was already late so you can understand my frustration at the market.
On a plus note, I'm really loving the way the Monster is sounding. That throaty grumble makes the bike sound a lot bigger that 700cc. Hopefully more pedestrians will hear me now and stop trying to jump under my front wheel whenever the mood takes them. I did managed to get to a petrol station on the way home within 10mins of leaving the office and managed to get a fraction over 13.5 litres into the tank, so I was in fact down to my last 500cc. That's cutting it a little too close even thou I could have got maybe 5-7 miles down the road before spluttering to a halt. I've run out of petrol once or twice before and I really don't recommend it.