Spring has arrived
Posted by stocky on September 1, 2009
Spring has arrived in the Great South
We call it the Great South because it’s “Great” and of course south, but also because it is one of the larger regions of our wonderfull country
The Great part is that with spring comes the better weather and this part of NZ was designed with motorcyclists in mind
lot’sa neat “back” roads that are twisty but not so challenging that they turn a ride into working hard and losing the enjoyment
Now that I’m older I am more into riding than racing
Dont get me wrong I still like to go fast, but with the law as it stands anything above 140kmph and its bye bye lisence for 28 days so I am constantly trying to stay off the throttle and have to remind myself that 160kmph will not make the “Nice Policeman” happy
It’s hard to convince them that 160 is not “that fast”
And saying it’s OK ’cause you do it all the time so you’re used to it goes down about as well as a fart in church
So its back roads for fun times and Otago has plenty of secoundary roads between the main routes, usualy going over a hill to get to the next main route “Bikers Nirvana”
So the other day when I was out on one of these back roads I hit a newly formed pot hole in the middle of taking a sweeping down hill left hander at ’bout 140 and bent the left inside of my front wheel rim
The impact was a hell of a wack and a small “shimmey” to keep her straight [I know straight in a corner is a oxymoron but you know what I mean]
So long story even longer Ive had the rim straightened and now I’m working on how to take out the “pucker” mark that my clenching butt left in the seat [haha]
Still thats the price you pay on secoundary roads they can be a little rougher than main routes but still a lot more fun
we had 4 good riding days over the last week with Sunday being a “cracker” got up to around 20 degree celcius so I took my mate for a squirt to Lake Waihola [about 30kms south] and stopped for a cup of tea at the cafe’ then up over the hill onto the coast road and back into town
A good day
This weekend is shaping up to be a good one as well so I’m as happy as a dog with two dicks
Danger Stock on Road