Thanx Hardy, it was an awesome evening out. Exacly my idea of a Thursday night. Good thing Spinner wasn't there. The table next to us at Booga-T's would have cost him a small fortune.... :-)
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Hardy <[email protected]>wrote: > "Everything's a circle. We're each responsible for our own actions. > It will come back." - Betty Laverdure > > This is what I read on one of those sugar papers as we sat there at > Booga-T's while enjoying hot chocolates, pizza, tremmizini's and beers... > We still get looks from some of the other patrons... all in our MTB kit and > grinning after such a lekker ride... > So with cloud about looks like somefolks aren't waterproof anymore... as > there were only 5 of us there... and best part of it all the trails were > mostly schweet and dry and really fresh... man it is so good to be back and > enjoy our really schweet trails... the familiarity of home and good friends > out having a jol.... life is good!!!! > > So we head down a rather gnarly "end of the world: and into Gauntlet which > is really up to its old tricks with the super looong grass... later up those > singletracks at the base of klapperkop it was quiet freaky as the looong > grass made it difficult to see where the trial went, but we found our way > and cruisin along at some point q.t. done a dismount... we negotiated about > us being only 5 and a there and back could be a mugging risk... so Eric led > us down the singletrack next to the fence down to fountain circle... and > loop around groenkloof ... a bit of tar.. but then we get to do the > Northside of the airbase trails again.. . haven't done that in a while... > after playing frogger on the tar with the traffic and stuff... it was > decided that next time we'll rather face muggers... man I don't know how > roadies train/survive.... > > So we hit airbase singletracks in q.t. slipstream as we claw against the > wind...and then up that now really technical jeeptrack.... i charge off > grinding..boucin bumpin up over the rocks until my pedal whacks one and > suddely my bike jolts sideways and I come to a sudden stop... > .eish...neeeearly crashed... then we shot that lekker singletrack down to > PVR road... where there was a some police action and 3 suspects arrested > under the bridge.... he just shone his lights at us... probably wondering > what we are up to... so we cruised up end of da world and headed back... > .the ride was lekker social with a lot of role changing, all of us taking > turns to lead, sweep and just have fun... Oupa Gerrit gets wired under the > N1 and just when he thinks it is all sorted by unravelling the wire caught > in his cassette... he notices nico holding his front wheel where some "milk" > is leakin.... they do the D&D style spin & wiggle move and hit the road as > it looked like it should seal... luckily it did and after a few short play > dices and stuffs we were back at the Moo mall. > > Thanks Guys, it was really an honour to ride with you's. > > More or less stats... more or less rode for 2,5hours for more or less 30kms > and had more or less not much technicals, one biological and more or less no > rain at all.... > > AND OUPA GERRIT WON THE VALENTINES RED OUTFIT!!!!! :-) > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
