Thursday the 6th of June 2011

After been voted the most ugly bike at WWD Markus decided to roll-up his sleeves and prove everybody wrong. After weeks of late night cleaning and polishing he was found one morning hunched over his Steed fast asleep mumbling something about ‘it all being hopeless’... and all of this with the bike looking no better. It was obvious that some drastic action needed to be taken... maybe a respray could save him from total humiliation?

Well... these past few weeks Markus has been seen rubbing down the tank, applying masking tape... with reports of the hiss of spraying coming from the shed late at night. All of this eventually accumulating in the recent, grand revealing of his ‘new look’ bike. Full of overwhelming pride Markus set-off to ‘fill-her-up’ and parade his new steed before his once mocking friends... whom he now supposed would be green with envy. 

Disaster!... having filled-her-up and removing the pump nozzle, a tiny drop of fuel fell on his spanky ‘new look’ tank. To Mark’s horror the paint instantly melted before his eyes and ran leaving a horrible stain! Riding straight home, bottom lip quivering, tears welling-up in his eyes and with his knees clasped ever-so-tightly to the tank, in a vain effort to cover his shame, Mark hasn't been seen since, nor in fact has any of the kids airfix paint tins... especially the silver ones! 

Oh... the shame of it all!