Great report Eric! I'm just worried that you made it sound so good that now everyone will want to join in and we'll have MORE than 24 rider next time ;-) Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!
-----Original Message----- From: Eric Guldemond <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:54:15 To: DnD<[email protected]> Subject: [DarknDirty] About last night.... So last night saw the return of the Gadget, after his big fall. He was a little scared... but after arriving at the MooMall and seeing 24 other keen intro riders his fears quickly set aside. Okay enough of the third person stuff. I have been looking forward to this ride for quite some time. I have luckily not had any major injuries left, but still did not have the confidence to get back on the bike until at least 2 weeks before. Anxiously waiting for the next intro route, the time has finally come. Last night's intro route was awesome. It's such a great route with just the right balance of fun, skill, easy riding and technical climbs. All mixed together to not scare newbies away - but still keeping it fun for the regulars. WOW what a crowd at the MooMall, 24 riders including 8 ladies, 6 first timers and a bunch of 'old' faces. With Clinton in the lead I knew we were in for good night out where safety, social and fun are the 3 biggest focus points. The route started going up CRUISER single track, from there to EXTACY park. It been a long time since I have seen that many lights in the park - it looked awesome as everyone played there going round and round. Some of the new ladies even when down the drop-off, eish! on their first ride in the dark! They are definitely made of the right material :-) From there we went to the WASH-A-GO and on to the PYTHON. Yeah baby the PYTHON with full moon! There's just no better ghost ride than that! After the fun on PYTHON we went up QUAD-BUSTA where the speedsters had ample opportunity to get rid of all their build-up energy. On the top we celebrated the LEGEND's birthday with some lekke cupcakes. The rest was smooth sailing along the jeeptracks to SHABEEN-QUEEN-DOWN-HILL and back at the MooMall we still found the SPUR open and willing to serve some beers and hot chocolates. Distance: 26km Time: 3,5h (yeah yeah it was a big crowd on an intro night) Flats: 1,5 (the half was fixed by just pumping) Whipe-outs: 2 (that I have witnessed) Eric. PS: I'll only be riding again in a months time after da honeymoon!!!! we were joking last night that there are still some things better than night rides, but not much! :-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
