After many, many months of missing night rides I got the opportunity to go and play in the dark again . Lots of new faces but I was surprised at a lot of the old suspects in the parking lot . I felt very brave and took the hard tail of for the evening . A decision I would later regret . Me and Power Girl had a nice chat about the To Hell and Back race she did and it reminded me of a promise I made myself to go and do it again .
With Eric bringing up the rear we headed into the night . I with Hardy all the way as I knew he has done this before and knows where all the anthills and big rock are . I got no cooking clue which route we took and although I recognized some of the place from previous rides I could only plot myself when we got to Smuts house . It was at this point that I learned about a new rule that D&D got at some point ! The first one to fall or get a puncture writes the report . I can hear you all going “ha-ha Dirt-Rider fell again “ , well sorry to disappoint , I got a puncture ! But close spills I had plenty . Keeping that hard tail on the trail was not easy . Just for the record , I know that lovely young lady had a tumble before I had my puncture !!!! Hardy knew that there would be mud out there and there for suggested the white T-Shirt ride . Riding next to the railway tracks , me at the back this time , I was disappointed to see everybody doing their best to go around the mud holes and water . No ways I made the effort to steal my wife’s white T-Shirt just to return it white . So I came from the back and when through the middle of all this lovely looking muddy pools . Unfortunately I went so fast through them that I sprayed a lot of other people with mud . I am so very sorry , that was not what I intended to do ! Anyway since most has a few pieces of mud on them most of us headed for the water . At this stage I was way ahead it the “who’s the dirtiest “ competition but Oupa Gert had his own very cunning plan . He did what any self respecting MTB’er would do . Fall into the mud ! The Mummy also tried the same trick but his bike was handling so well he just could not fall of . He did however almost take Power Girl out in the process . At one point the customary “sprint” was called for . Now from what I can remember a sprint is like 100 to 200 meters max ! Not 3KM !!!! I was behind Hardy at the start of the sprint but after 200 meters the Mummy came flying past me , followed by QT and then Power Girl !! I hate sprint ! On our way back we had a hanger failing , leaving us with one push bike . My light decided it had enough and I battled to stay with the push bike as it flew down the hills . But as we all know it is not all downhill and a time would come when Hardy will take out his tube and do his favorite trick “ I will tow you with a tube so short you will see the bald patch on my head “ . The dude that was getting towed also got a push from me and Jan and we really flew up the hills . Hardy got tired and Jan said he will do the towing . Me and Hardy wanted to again help by pushing but Jan took of and left us all standing in the dust . When we got back to the car park most of the group went for another look but I decided it was a good time to pack up and head for home . Nice ride , I am sure with time I will remember the “new” rider’s names as well . ------------------------------------------- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za ------------------------------------------------------------------ For super low premiums, click here http://home.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
