How far do you intend to push it? If it’s any distance it’ll foccing kill you.
Back in 1999 I took the ferry to Skye on my brand new FZS600. I spent some time on Skye then off tae Harris Lewis and ended up on Berneray fae a week.
So eventually I had tae head hame and get back tae work. I had to get down the road as quickly and cheaply as possible. That meant taking the new and controversial Skye bridge. At the time, the private company that built the bridge charged a toll, and they were set to make a pretty penny out of that bridge. There was a long campaign to scrap the charges, many demos and actions. VNA being VNA had decided, that I would use the bridge and I would show solidarity with the good people of Skye. My theory was, and the case I would put forward, is that I walked my bike across the bridge and that therefore there was no charge due.
So, as I remember it, I arrived at the roundabout for the bridge. Took a left for the bridge, as I headed towards the bridge I cut the engine and coasted down the approach to the bridge. I eventually ground to a halt. As I suspected pushing the bike up the bridge loaded with luggage was neigh on impossible. I fired the engine up, put it in first gear and walked the bike to the top of the bridge slipping the clutch. Got to the top, jumped on and coasted towards the tolls. I may have been a hundred yards or so short of the tolls when the bike rolled to a hault, and then I pushed (no engine) over onto the cycle path, past the toll booth (a friendly wave to the bemused toll staff) past the booths, then fired the bike up and rode off.
What I will say, it was a nice sunny summers day, and even walking the bike with the engine running was foccing hard work. I was seriously focced with the effort. I stopped at the petrol station in Kyle of Lochalsh and downed three cans of IRN BRU one after the other.
I waited patiently for my fine in anticipation of my planned defiant continued refusal to pay. No charge or fine ever dropped through my door.
Did I have my helmet on as I walked and pushed – are you joking? No I did not!