Tassles in Ruralman's territory

[scumdog]

Well, finished nightshift at 5am-ish, got woken up by the phone at 10am by CB saying when she finished work we could go for a ride to Roxburgh or somewhere seeing as how the weather was so good AND I'd been given the day off (been working too many days without days off so the boss gave me today).

CB got home and on went the tassles, temperature was above 30 degrees so the infamous skull-mask got put into my shoulder bag along with cell-phone etc and I wore a bandana instead - heaps cooler but hoo-boy, not so good for stopping the impact of buzzard-sized bumble-bees.

We gassed-up, went to Milton for CB to drop off her work phone then off up SH8 and the Manuka Gorge - mmmm, twisty road, hot surface, minimal traffic - you had to be there! (Got road rash on my tassles).

Got to Lawrence and bumped into Chris on his bronze-coloured 'zuki, stopped and yarned with him, he was on his way back to Dunedin AFTER being to Te Anau that morning intending to head to Milford but found the weather getting too crappy.

On we went towards Roxburgh, saw heaps of bikes and hardly anybody waved - HDs, sprotbikes, jap cruisers, adventure bikes, the lot - (sheeit, just wait until the 'only HD riders don't wave' brigade read this! )

Stopped at Roxburgh and had a cuppa and large filled rye-bread roll, a local reckoned it was 'over 35 degrees', sent a birthday TXT to Dangerous and 1/2 an hour we headed off back down to Island Block where CB' son and his girlfriend run a water-ski training camp 'On Edge Waterski and Wakeboard School', stopped to watch the action for 20 minutes or so then off towards Riviera of the South via the Rongahere road from Beaumont - a magic road on a hot dry day - great scenery and enough corners to keep you interested BUT watch it if the road is wet - its got a lot of lichen on it due to being screened by the overhanging trees.

(Uncanny how you can ride through ice-cold pockets of air while riding through an area like this when the rest of the area is 30 + degrees)

And then we got home, all in all a great ride despite my eyes hanging out from tiredness.

Now sitting back having a red wine.

[JimO]

red wine......how civilised

[98tls]

Sounds like a great day SD...........i hear you on the tired thing.......nightshift sucks eh..........amazing what you can do on two-three hours sleep.........by the way theres some harley guys looking around for your fairing as of tommorow so fingers crossed.......actually it wont be till tuesday as he said monday and there a day behind..........

[merv]

And then we got home, all in all a great ride despite my eyes hanging out from tiredness.

Now sitting back having a red wine.

Man some cop somewhere is going to tell you that riding when tired is not a good idea, but good on ya for having a nice ride and a drink afterwards.

The only ride I did today after yesterdays long ride on the dirt bike was to dry it when I washed it and now I'm on Sauv Blanc while I'm cooking the fillet steak dinner.

[JimO]

fillet steak..how civilised

[merv]

Yeah but I don't drink much red wine.

[terbang]

Mask removed Huh..! Trying to really scare em eh? Of course I mean with the bandana.. Sounds like a nice day on the Riviera of the South and a good ride had by you and the loverley CB. Cheers B

[JimO]

i havnt met scumdog but have a mental picture of him looking like John travolta in the wild hogs movie.....am i wrong or rrrrrreeeeeeeeaaaalllyyyy wrong

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

great stuff

[scumdog]

The only ride I did today after yesterdays long ride on the dirt bike was to dry it when I washed it and now I'm on Sauv Blanc while I'm cooking the fillet steak dinner.

We had grilled chops (mm-mm!) and gourmet potatoes with whitestone turnips.
With our Margaret River cab-sav.

Washed the entimologists (sp) delight from the T-Sport and put it to bed, now watching CSI to find out how to do my job properly.

Learned a road-lesson today too - was in Roxburgh pootling along at about 15kmh down the left of the main street with L/H indamacator blinking and awaiting for a slow Falcon that was behind me to pass, no indamacator noticed on said Falcon BUT as I got to the entry to a leg-in property the Falcon cut across my bows and into this entry.
I guess he thought I too was going to turn left into the leg-in driveway but still, even so he should have waited for me to turn, not cut on front of me.

Had I been going much quicker he would have taken me out, glad I had noticed him.
Be careful out there people.

[98tls]

Well just got back from a rather spirited ride with a few mates............nice although a bit late........went over to ranfurly and back.........finally got a wheelie at 190 kms caught on tape.........wahooo...weve been trying to do it for yonks.........sorry to steal ya thread SD but you will know the road we did it on............now have to work out how to put it on the net.............

[smokeyging]

Learned a road-lesson today too - was in Roxburgh pootling along at about 15kmh down the left of the main street with L/H indamacator blinking and awaiting for a slow Falcon that was behind me to pass, no indamacator noticed on said Falcon BUT as I got to the entry to a leg-in property the Falcon cut across my bows and into this entry.
I guess he thought I too was going to turn left into the leg-in driveway but still, even so he should have waited for me to turn, not cut on front of me.

Had I been going much quicker he would have taken me out, glad I had noticed him.
Be careful out there people.

I hope you crushed the silly buggers balls. Bugger that. Isn’t it amazing when your going along the road and you think that you have everything covered and ‘Murphy’ just comes up and gives you such a clip across the ear…

[JimO]

i had a similar thing yesterday except the guy in the car turned left from a side street on to my lane without even looking i could have been a truck he was a dick and got a earfull from me and another earfull from my 14 yo son who was on the back