Hehehhe Thanks Leon, or should we say Mr. zero-zero-one!!! (tshwane arclub membership number :-)
Wow it was so lekker being out there!!! and as always, an honour to ride with you's l8r hardy On 11 June 2010 07:30, Leon van der Westhuizen <[email protected]>wrote: > Rock 'n' Roll > > It is now... really early on a Friday morning, 2010 World Cup morning in > fact, and it has fallen (hehehe) to me to write this report. > Just shy of seven on the clock last night, about ten like minded insaniacs > pitched up at the MooMall ready to brave the slightly... fresh, I believe > the word was... conditions to do the famous Rock 'n' Roll Dark 'n' Dirty > route. After the usual "social ride nobody gets left behind" speech by > Hardy, we were off up the hill and onto Cruiser. > You can say what you want, but Cruiser at speed is still one of the more > awesome tracks around :-) > After a quick pomp by Hardy - his rear tyre was squishy - onto Vetseun, > taking it easy near the top with all the very loose rocks, and hen bombing > it down to the stop street at Smuts Street. Then loop back onto Beeg-Dipper, > with some nice technical rumbly climbs. It was somewhere up this where I > earned the right to write this prose. I managed to almost endo. On an > uphill. But I settled for an inelegant dismount. Unfortunately, my hands > touched the ground, and someone was there to see it... > Oh well :-) > Then onto Mielie Muure DH Rush, which was awesome!!! We waited a while at > the regrouping point for one guy (I believe it was > Willem-without-the-helmet) lost his light. Reattaching required some > innovative cable tie usage, and while it pointed somewhat sideway, it didn't > come off again. > I took the first speed zone up the hill next th the tar, and then the other > Leon took the second from the Shebeen. > Hardy took the third one to the Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Vision). > Then down Mineshaft SZ, but just after Blair Witch, Hardy decided he was > tired of pomping his rear tyre, and decided to replace the tube. He whipped > out a coffee thermos, and some plastic cups, and we all cheered him on while > he replaced his tube. Kudo's for taking LATEOTT SZ with a full, seemingly > never emptying thermos of sweet milky coffee, by the way :-) > Next it was onto another awesome piece of singletrack, then back into Irene > at the cemement factory and onto Python. After tour de Tar, where Mark came > flying past me like I was looking for parking to take the tiebreak SZ, which > stuffed up all the stats, prompting Hardy to call Quadbusta the tiebreak. > This was taken by Leon Smith again, meaning that the Leon's took 3 of the 6 > SZ's :-) > Almost home, we hooked onto a piece of dirt road which I have, in my > capacity of Writer Of Report, have decided to call Chicanes, and onto the > first half of Cruiser, only in reverse. > We were back at the MooMall at 22:30, after 3:14 and 30 km. > > Here is the track recorded last night. It was a bit darker than the image > though :-) > > Thanks to all for a good good night... > > ******************************************************************************************************* > > > Disclaimer: > Denel (Pty) Ltd t/a Denel Aviation (Denel Aviation) Registration number: > 1992/001337/07 > This message and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for > the addressee. If > you have received this message in error, please notify Denel Aviation > immediately, telephone > number +27 11 927 2122 and by Reply email to sender. Any unauthorised use, > alteration or > dissemination of the contents of this email is strictly prohibited.In no > event will Denel Aviation > or the sender be liable in any manner whatsoever to any person for any loss > or any direct, > indirect, special or consequential damages arising from use of this email > or any linked > website, including, without limitation, from any lost profits, business > interruption, loss of > programmes or other data that may be stored on any information handling > system or > otherwise from any assurance that this email is virus free even if Denel > Aviation is expressly > advised of the possibility of such damages.. > > ******************************************************************************************************* > > > -- > 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/darkanddirty?hl=en.
