Now the truth!

We all know the power of peer pressure.
Well, when faced with a group of blokes saying that 'When being towed on a bike tie the bikes together', then Dave chose to do as they said, and ignore my advice, which was to 'Loop the rope round the handlebars and hold the loose end, so you can let go quickly'. I know lots about towing, the crap bikes I've had have needed lots of it.
Now Dave is an expert rider on his little Yamaha, as the picture shows, so I thought he would have known better.
So we set off, with the rope tied to rack of my KTM, which lies some way above the centre of gravity,and that, combined with the hill start, made wheelieng compulsory. Why could I hear laughter ringing out from the 'experts' behind us?
All went well for the first few miles, until Dave signalled me to stop, so he could tell me he had boiled his brakes. That wasn't a real problem. That came next.
I don't know where we were at the time, but Roger must have found out from our chaperone, Steve on his plastic rocketship, that it was the Bingley bypass.
I felt an increasing retardation from behind. 'Funny I thought, Dave hasn't got any brakes'. It was the crashing noise that made me turn round, to see Dave bodysurfing on tarmac, some distance from his bike. Yamahas have quite a low coefficient of friction haven't they? I carried on quite well.
Turned out that Dave's boiled brakes had let some slack develop in the rope that caught on his knobbly tyre, got dragged round into the wheel, and wound him into my bike like a fish on a hook. Once his front wheel lost contact with the tarmac his fate was sealed.
Once we got his bike kicked straight it was time for Dave to have his revenge.
I needed petrol so pulled gently into the next petrol station. Now everybody knows not to get an angle on the rope, except we forgot.
As we picked my bike up a helpful bloke said 'Oh no, it's awful to drop a lovely new bike on its side for the first time'
No worry there then, the first time was two weeks before.Since the I'd spent £100 on crash bungs, so I got my money back in one go

KTM.
Float like a butterfly
Sting like a bee
Fall off like a dick