KL by night

I though it would be good to test the bike during night as I presumed that I have to do some driving in the dark druing the trip. So I headed towards KL to see how it was and to practice my gear changing skills. Well the initial remarks is that it has good lights, not so good breaks, the rear wheels are a bit worn out, but the gearbox is pretty smooth and so is the engine.

Also got up to a 120 km/h which is was frankly quite scary but it is feisty and willing to rev, and I had plenty of fun with it around the streets of KL. Matter of fact so much fun that the Police decided to have a check point exactly where I tried a nice turning maneuver!

Damnit! I only have the Swedish car license here, but Im going to play it cool and see what he says.

" You speak Malay?"

 "ehm...Boleh?" ,the cop smiled a bit and it looked down on the license... 

" This your license?" 

 " Ehm...Yes sir,of course" 

Wow.. prime Malay police investigation here. I might just get away with a little notice to get a Malaysian license or something. He looked confused and asked his colleague for assistance, and they together looked very confused. The tense was building up, is it

"OK you can go", or was it Malay prison for three months..... 

Then someone on the radio started yelling out stuff and they had to go!

This is the second time I was actually saved by a yelling man on the policeradio (the first time was in my Volvo a few months ago) and I was free to go! 

But me being me, I had to embarrass myself by starting the engine with the highest gear and trying to get away from there in the same gear.

This naturally wasnt very efficient and surely wasnt very good for the gearbox, instead of changing down I just smiled towards the other cops to maintain a good face and said something like "Its an old bike, so it is really slow".
This caused some laughter amongst the cops and the other bikers that were stopped, and my already non existent KL street cred sunk even lower.. So heading back to campus was the best thing to do now...