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Rip It Up, Issue 147, 1 October 1989, Page 21

Fl™'J?"'- J . 11 .» 11UW ....... J .w,. . • . ■ to most people. But to me it meant Mary , I ,■" I m t/' 1 •, I I 7 ■ I ■] F‘ • I - •7 1 Watson, a New Zealand hero I had read ’ "F'b pF'\ -. j ‘ , t i lLv* ’>’ - ■ ' | about. : ?:?•••'■•’<••.■■’ FpF : h I Iff'" 1 If-xl 14414-L. wwm IF: : A .. '■ - - '" ' >» <it ■!“'■' -j-— -- HrT» J 4^\>iF 'F t /■ 7“ ‘ 1 During the thirties and forties Mary . I 5 ? v ' FS'.X''.F| -FL X'l&fsT I » X '‘F I Watson rode all over New Zealand on an V, -■ , - FF/ IJL . « xL.. F|| .33%.’* Indian Scout, bringing the magic of the | . ? ?'• * '„ ' m, ; - *' F ’ 1 . - * s \ C/X V ''l washing machine to the backblocks. t ' i ' '''■'"> 1 „ Z' "Mb J s 'I L.I muck was recorded, but what IF A .>■ ■’- •■ .. '•-7 • , ;i t ' F_/\ ; 'j LF-- /'■■ L-- ■ ... XA : ..... . y ; .- 1 became ol the motorcycle was never I .mm-'" ‘ '3 '33 J 3“ .- -•:■. k?m , *-*•_ :'•'■■ ■■-Fi-.’ ’/■/-. ‘? F .’■-'. .'....FF •'. ■•.. - .Ft | know n. And now here las looking al it. I' ; ''-;.g. ? 3-%3 -" I " -Cglm Z’’*'"’ tk|. '3k %3 '' >%fgS, ;T ' ' 2|||Ss| thousands of miles from home. I 3 . Z’m c. .< o .I'7 • ’ ~. 7. ■ > I Two minutes, SI 00 and a bottle of Jim IZa 77 ■ in 7 : 1-Z'eZigc, 77md •<. 77, | ...,., g..• ? ; k ; oimZcfifc... gfi. g ... . - F * ' . ' F -. a.. ' 1 Beam later, I was the proud owner of a I ' - ' ■ ' .7 . I derelict Scout. *1 ■ ■ ’ > —« z . | if\r “'F ■ :/' ••"' , - ’ .... I Restoring her wasn’t going lo be easyiZZo'c "7'7 /' ’ ', F. 3,g : 3 . 7|;' .. . i-igga17 '" '' J ‘7 .--. ’ bin had Mar Y Watson or any of our k IF 7 ’ -F'-.-.. 7i - | pioneers for that mailer taken the easy A || I * ’ - . * X 1 ,i\ e « I r oad? f 4 $ XX. -'- .i/F ‘ XL- "You’re mad," said Raymond. “You’d be hl 1 mm « v * m "#> ■ — « better off paying decent money and getting ® 1 f- I lip fl SI I TOll 11 01l AP a new bike. That old relic will never run ' V . again.” was the day I faced a challenge 33z:— v . The hardest bit was finding replacement InnillHu’t Timllz 01X7017 fl»nm parts- A friendin the States sorted that out. VUIIIUU V Wdllik CvllvCvJ 11 Ulllt He’s a regular guy. tied slipped a bottle of Jim Bea m into the package of parts for me to christen the bike with. I’ll never forget the day I found her. My of bougainvillaea and floor and running an air compressor, / Raymond turned up brother Raymond and I were up in the disappeared inside. . m •-, was the better part of a > "" ; - ' the other day with a islands. - Suddenly there was a loud ~ /» \T 1926 Indian Scout. 1 * i i, neglected Japanese job We had just shifted base to a little bang. It sounded like / *> rFF-F J r "Got the rest of her . . r , /''M I he wants me to help fishing village and our first concernCSX someone kick- tJ 1 'round here someplace" Wf MW' \ .F-'X JKHb . ' / M I him restore. . ■jo 4'vW was to find someone able to refill starting a / -B' I * flg I grumbled Jean-Luc, |U ;G F ® F \ K - I think he's missed ‘ IHJFU . . our air tanks. " motorbike that / I ?.= I nursing a bruised shin. v' ■ • F\^'. - B f th e point. It turned 'Sm. 'WV kicked back. ‘ F | K Shifting a mountain of F ■ - out to be Jean- % As the engine O. junk he revealed not just » ' ws ’wF r** a • cMj I Ki ' ; »• , X Luc, a '«■ M chugged away, ¥ K an Indian Scout, but the MF^FF.F'---" Lo 'HBcSk 11 \| 11 | .’My ,, fflg' something gnawed at the Indian Scout, the one d " - F . pF ’ ' back of my mind...l knew I’d ' heard about in New" Zealand, I ,m6e Ahß 7X : I I ' 'xK heard that sound before. I headed but never expected to see. , X / PVF*■ ■ • ( ' I r** straight for the source. A scratched and faded, but still just- ‘ . Of all the places you'd expect to find visible insignia on the sidecar told me J?> ,p BH * crotchety old character whose grass . one of the finest motorcycles ever built, this everything I needed to know. ‘ 1 hut looked like it needed mowing. : was the least likely. ‘The Wandering Washerwoman’ it ''wßt * C' l He took our tank, pushed aside a curtain There, bolted to a plank on the earth said. That would mean nothing at all ' I Y&R ALMSI9S ' I • Rip It Up 21