Hello
Just a thankyou to all riders on the dualsport/duelsport ride. The ride was a hoot for me, even when I was ploughing the track with the vstrom. Sorry for the holdup it caused and extra thanks to those who helped fix the broken lever…Sorry to the american who I defamed repeatedly.
I hope TB is OK and recovering.
My r/r goes like this. The ride started with a brisk tootle down the freeway to meet n greet at Wyong. Most of the other riders seemed to be on what appeared at first to be small pumpkin seeds but later were shown to be just small. A entertaining short ride on the dirt was followed by a freezing and very foggy ride down Murrays run to Laguna. I was very cold and couldnt see jack.
The lady at Laguna seemed to take my comment about Patchouli oil as an allegation of her age, [gee I was just trying to be friendly and get a cuppa]and gave us all a laugh.
We set off back to letterboxes and up the Howes Valley trail, on one of my favourite tracks, and very suited to vstrom blasting. I tried to stick it to the boys, and was having a blast at the same time. After a stop and rest we tore off up to an intersection where a photo op was organised up the track a bit, so we staggered, and set off individually…. Turned out to be bad for me as I was then really hooting with no one holding me up, and came a nasty gutza after a big front end lose. I saw stars like in the cartoons picked the bike up and rode off. Shortly realising I had wrapped the brake lever around the footpeg and also lost my bag[thanks for recovering it ]. Support and laughs soon had me riding again but lesson learnt….
Out onto the Putty down the tar to the Milborodale trail and Tb’s nasty prang. He seemed OK, but turned out he was bad. I then proceeded to bin the vstrom again to another front end lose, this time slow and I bent the next brake lever. I had-had close to enough by then and was getting tired. The Milborodale Trail was good and bony but I was off the pace.
Into Bulga and I had one of the worst Hamburgers ever, but a couple of longnecks of old soon had me forgotten about burgers and off with the fairies. The ride up the settlers trail is also one of my favourites but I struggled all the way, the bike seemed to be slipping and I was dog tired. No more ripping along for me, just struggle struggle struggle.Everyone else seemed to be ripping. The end of the trail couldnt come soon enough for me, and the trip home was cold. 380km all round.
Even though I whinge in this r/r…. I enjoyed the ride, and would go again tomorrow. Actually Scott just called and I am goin out on the XR to Catho pub from Caves Beach right NOW.
Scott
, If I am carrying the gear then I will have a beaver bag :dry: .
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