Breakdown

Went for my MOT re-test today. Arrived well on time only to be told that I need to bring along my failure sheet. "Surely its on your system?" I asked. Apparently not. What a stupid system.

So I rushed back home to pick it up, but had a breakdown on the way back - the sound of scraping metal and then the engine stalling. This didn't sound good at all - I tried a light kick on the kick start and heard the same noise, and stopped straight away. So I pushed the scoot back home.

On closer inspection at home it turned out the flywheel cowl had come loose and was resting on the flywheel - what a relief! There was me thinking I'd holed the piston or lost a piston ring or something similar. So £2 on a set of new cowling fixings, but back to square one with the MOT.