here's one: It looks like rain, dear<http://cyclingwith.blogspot.com/2009/12/it-looks-like-rain-deer.html>
<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NIGpvp_KlCo/SyJPoGkZ0II/AAAAAAAAACc/LtLR1pGaiCQ/s1600-h/merryxmas2.jpg> It was the annual Dark & Dirty Xmas Ride. Decorate your bike, your helmet and yourself in Xmas attire and take the singletrack to Lawley Street to admire Pretoria's lights. I braved the 2-hour-traffic to Pretoria to go empty my mailbox in Groenkloof. (I originally kept the mailbox as an excuse to go ride D&D - and it worked!) I happened to have the bike on the car - still muddy from the 24 hrs. Haven't been at a D&D ride for a very long time - was surprised (and relieved) to see so many familiar faces. Dark rumbling clouds warned of wet weather to come. It was ignored, and QT made up songs as we rode. <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_NIGpvp_KlCo/SyJS338diyI/AAAAAAAAACs/sFynNlTy9u8/s1600-h/nando_mummy.jpg> Old familiar singletrack - I forgot what a joy it was! End of the World, but the bridge looked totally different and crossong the raod was scarier than i remember. Then Gauntlet, but perfectly good singletrack had to make way for Gautrain-excavations :( Up King of the Hill to the old D&D centre, and then learning the Jinglebellride-song's words as we ride on tar up & down some hills. * singletrack, singletrack, riding in the night oh, what fun it is to fly on singletrack at night we riding singletrack on our bikes at night we're on our way to lawley street where all the cars go 'beep beep beep' *all together now* singletrack, singletrack, riding in the night ... * On to Lawley Street, Pretoria's fairytale-Xmas-light-street - complete with horses pulling a pumpkin-cart. <http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NIGpvp_KlCo/SyJSZ3zeQ2I/AAAAAAAAACk/ghwuCsDnRdk/s1600-h/reindeer.jpg> Lighting-flashes, camera-flashes, xmas-lights, bicycle-lights. When the rumblings became too loud to ignore, we headed back past the old D&D centre again - where the Hardies revealed their Xmas prezzie to us all: drive-through ice cream at macDonalds (where of course we all had to scream for ice cream) <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NIGpvp_KlCo/SyJTsj30-UI/AAAAAAAAAC0/PmXLD0hLjKY/s1600-h/icecream.jpg> The cloud rumblings became louder and the flashes more frequent, and bets were placed on whether we'll beat the storm to the Moo Mall. We missed a turn-off and took a grass-route into the airforcebasewall-singletrack. Almost at the cemetry there were loud noises of surprise from Hardy. Legs on the singletrack. Don't know who skrikked the most - hardy or the body attached to the legs. Then the balancing act through the narrow-alley under the bridge and racing the rain on tar all the way to the Moo mall. We reached the mall as the first drops fell. Still dry. The heavens opened. By the time all the bikes were on cars - about 4 minutes later - everybody was drenched. Hot chocolate and all-day-thursday-specials at the spur. And some prezzie-exchanges. Another uneventful D&D ride. Here's to much more for 2010. 2009/12/11 Thursia Hardenberg <[email protected]> > Volunteer jy Carine? (ride report) > > > > Thanx vi die pic, dis ASStounding! > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Carine > *Sent:* Friday, December 11, 2009 10:44 AM > *To:* darkanddirty > *Subject:* [DarknDirty] it looked like rain, deer > > > > this is not a ride report - don't know who got tasked with that - it's just > a thank you for the excellent ride last night > > > > i missed riding with you lot the last few months - thank you for an > excellent night out!! > > > > and thank you TheHardies for the cool xmas prezzie :) > > > > c. > > > -- > > http://cyclingwith.blogspot.com > > -- > > 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]<darkanddirty%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en. > > -- > 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]<darkanddirty%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en. > -- http://cyclingwith.blogspot.com -- 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.
