Thanks for the AWESOME report Nicol!! There were 26 Riders for the night, about 6 newbies Cheers C
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nicol Jordaan <[email protected]> Date: 12 February 2010 09:38 Subject: ride report To: [email protected] At the Dark&Dirty there is a custom that the ride report is to be written by first person to take a fall. So here I am typing away over my second cup of boeretroos for the day… I must admit though, I could not have achieved this honour without a little help from my friend and our little game of trying to push the other off the road. As I was going down with Thursia and her bike rolling over me, my mother’s words echoed in my head - “*this is going to end in tears with somebody getting hurt*” – which is what she always used to say when I was a lad playing rough boyish games with my brothers. Well at least there were no tears, rather fits of laughter to go with the bruised elbows. So, after a fun canoe time trial on Rietvlei Dam, while most normal people were going home to take a shower and settle down for the evening, I lined up with a group of other not-so-normal mountain bikers at the Moo Mall’s parking lot. I never did a head count, but we must have been between 20 and 30 riders. What a turnout! The weather was perfect and our route for the evening was pretty straight forward. We basically followed the R21 east for approximately 17 kilometers before turning back west with a fair share of single track and jeep track between the faster gravel road sections. Being a “mild to wild” ride, there were lots of time for socializing on the ride and after about an hour and 15km’s, out came the cup cakes and lollipops… it was Chris’s birthday and there we were somewhere in the dark singing away “*happy birthday dear Chris… happy birthday to you!*”. Talking about singing, two new composers came forward last night with a new club song. I am not really sure where the song is to be sung in the future, but I think Adri and Thursia intends to sing it to us at every club event. I can’t remember how the words go, but it is something about making new acquaintances on the D&D rides and going low with a hyhohyho and off we go! Adri, Thursia, maybe you can help me out a bit here? There were quite a few first timers on the ride. Dorette being a newly converted roady and this being only her second time on a mtb, did pretty well and was one of the few people who didn’t take a tumble. Coenie's gamble to ride without a light on his first D&D (well, actually he did have a light, but it went dead after about 10 minutes) resulted in him buying a few pieces of land along the route and obtaining a few bruises to show off to his wife back home. What's that saying - *pain heals, chicks dig scars and glory last forever!* The race was on at the two speed zones for the evening with Hennie triumphing at the first and “the young bloke with the blue shirt” at the second (sorry, I didn’t get your name). The rest of the ride was rather mild with Hardy keeping the group together and future events being discussed. A few events that was mentioned was the club race in March, the Diamond Dash, War Trail and Swazi Xtreme. Wow, it is really inspiring to cycle with people with so much energy! Back at Irene Mall at about 22:30, the staff at Spur made my day by re-opening the kitchen and preparing the best biltong and cheese burgers I have had for a long time. Thanks Hardy and everyone else for a great ride. See you there next time. Nicol Jordaan | Civil Engineer MCWAP | MCC *Tel*: +27 12 643 9027 *Fax*: +27 12 663 3257 *Cell*: +27 72 524 5784 2nd Floor Outspan House 1006 Lenchen Ave North Centurion 0157 P. O Box 8232 Centurion 0046 South Africa -- 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.
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