Mat was a dare-devil on hid=s motorcycle. Often he tried to go to as fast as he could imitating the style of the riders he had seen on television.
He was a reckless rider. He rode with his safety-helmet unsecured and his feet shod only with a pair of slippers. When taking corners he would lean his motorcycle until his knee almost scraped the road.
He was a menace on the road, taking big risks thus endangering his own life and that of other road-users. He had many narrow escapes but he never learned from them.
Finally, one day his luck ran out. He failed to negotiate a coprner properly and crashed into a hole beside the road. Consequently he was flung from his motorcycle and smack into a huge tree. That was the end of Mat.
To day all that is left of Mat is a marker above his grave to serve as a grim reminder to those who would ride their motorcycles recklessly.
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