Hhahahahaaaa Great report, thanks Carine. Hope you recover fully before G4!!!!
Hey we played a bit at the bike park yesterday, what a jol.... it was amazing to see this little kid on a rigid (no shocks) riding all that stuff like a champ... getting mean air on the tabletops..even in the wind.... Whoa!!!!! future champ in the making i reckon!!!!! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Carine Reyneke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/9/8 Subject: [DarknDirty] Re: Last weeks D&D...... To: [email protected] so hardy beat me to the writing of the report - maybe because i objected so loudly when appointed - anyway, here's my take on things for thursday night: *The right to write the ride report* ... and other random thoughts Sometime during the course of the year it became the task of the first person to fall, write the ride report - It must have been after Krummel stopped riding, 'cos it would have been monotonous to have him write the report week after week :-) It was easy enough to avoid being selected as the designated ride-report-writer: just keep the falls inconspicuous and witnessless. But the dust, the Russian explaining his long absence, the slow speed down the foreign new sweet track, the invisible rock, the inattention to where you're riding (listening and chatting away, instead) all conspired to what the Russian called one of the more spectacular endo's he'd seen - although not by far anything like his legendary sabie-classic-endo (he took an hour to recover the bicycle) - but that's a story for another day, and for someone else to tell. So I won the right to write the ride report - together with a lot of bruises, minor human-stan's loss and a few more scratches on the well-abused bicycle. --------------------- It was a warm summer's night. There was no rain yet to turn the dust into mud. Some people were recovering from the bull; others were at the banf-movies, some were in Turkey, and yet others' bicycles were in for a service – so it happened that there were only 9 intrepid riders for the Thursday-night-ritual. Hardy greeted someone whom he saw on tv the previous week – the same someone was later seen wheely-ing up one of the hill challenges. It later emerged he's some or other duathlon-champ. There was some new track (Can we do it again? Can we do it again?), some old familiar tracks; some ups, lots of downs, always around the searchlight that emanated from the Moo Mall (for Powergirl, to orientate her). There were pleas to go do last week's downhill-course again, but Hardy was firm: only when Eric is back from Turkey. Cornwall downhill was very dusty, lots of loose sand, very low visibility and not nearly as much fun as it used to be :-( The tunnel after it made up for the lack of cornwall-thrill, though. Some more ups and downs - the ever-enjoyable sweet singletrak-downhill , the always-thrilling-always-fast ghostride track (with lights to light up the dust, as the moon was only a sliver). We stopped at one of the favourite birthday-spots for oupa Gerrit's birthday party. Deekay's chocolate cake was remarkably intact, considering the abuse that it took in his backpack (including surviving a tiny little fall?). Blowing out of the candles, champagne, cupcakes, cappuccino-muffins - it was probably the first time that there was leftover cake after a D&D party! Then some more ups and downs – the python, a tour de tar, some Vetseun, some Big Dipper, hot chocolate afterwards. As always, an honour to share the dirt with you. ------------------------- Thank you dk, for looking after me and checking if everything was ok after the minor endo :) Note to self: next time you plan to go do the afriman duathlon, don't fall off your bicycle the Thursday night before. If you absolutely *have* to endo, then don't hurt you knee so that you can barely walk the next day. And if you can barely walk the next day, and it's about a week before G4, then listen to your buddies telling you *not* to go hurt your knee further by attempting to run 21 kay or similar. Not a good idea. For future reference. ________________________________ [c1] [c2]Up ??? hill & down ??? dirtriders hill On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sooo we got out there in a really festive mood... lotsa cookies, cake, bubblies and candles to celebrate Oupa Gerrit's Bday!!!! > Yep he is just such an inspiration to all us folk @ D&D!!!!! So we got onto the dark trails.. spun around the quad loop.. cruised up to the spot where Doc normally takes a tumble and then hooked onto some interesting portals off Eric's Enchanment trail... wich included some needing to be ridden out wicked old singletrack... Cat-I entertained The Russian by performing a wicked a endo-diveroll and had some red stans to brag about afterwards..it was suggested that she should be spun till it seals.. hmm :-).we cruised under the highway and on the gnarly steep uphill grunt.. it seems that Oupa Gerrit decided to purchase some real estate aswell... OUCH... but all was well and we continued onto the ZZingletrack... lost the route slightly but we found it again... and cruised down a classic collection of interconecting Zzzingletracks!!!!... > The first speed zone "dedicated racing snake high HR zone" was taken by Mr Ten Napel himself who is in fine form from all his buttwhipping in the Duathlon series stuff (spotted him on tv doing it!!!) and we cruised down that wicked DH singletrack before the Ghost ride, which did not happen as the moon was reaally skimpy... Deekay's rear wheel spoke out and gave his ride a serious wobble... not sure if that played a roll in his lights out moment on the way to the birthday hill.... a slight knee graze and he almost seemed dissapointed that there was no blood... eish... > > So we get to brthday hill and Sing for Oupa Gerrit after he blew out candles and we all dug into Bubbly, Cupcakes... Real cakes and more, thanks so much Dee and Powergirl and Oupa Gerrit, it was awesome!!!! The night was beautifully warm and the stars looked great... > > So we cruise down look ma no breaks....I dunno if it was all the bubbly but we let oupa gerrit go first and he dropped us all like we were looking for parkin... serious grins at the end of that trail and off onto python singletrack where a few of us tried in vain to wheel-hug Oupa again... He gives a modest grin again :-) > > Tour-la Tar dice was off on a raging pace, JP was absolutely on fire... I think I hit an all new max HR trying to catch the man, but no luck... lotsa smiles as we recovered and cruised up Vetseun and Big Dipper on the way back,,,, And then we swung down cruiser for some last beeg shmileys!!! and cruised into the shopping centre just before 10pm > > Thanks everyone, it was an Absolute honour to ride with you's > Oupa Gerrit, Hope you have your best "dirty" year ever ahead of you!!! > > L8r > hardy > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DarkAndDirty" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DarkAndDirty?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
