Cha! Great skill as a writer you have Otto - much more than staying on your bike :)
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Donald Klopper (GMail) Sent: 03 April 2012 07:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [D&D-chat] Fwd: at last As from Otto. . .! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Otto Behrens <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 22:50:13 +0200 Subject: at last To: [email protected] Cc: Donald Klopper <[email protected]> After the Shakespearian standard was set and then the challenge of writing a song, I felt quite intimidated. But I'm still dreaming about that night... It all started with the "calling of all lovers", prompting some old d&d folk to get together for a bit of a reunion. Well, I'm not that old and not one of the first riders, but the vibe was lively and I couldn't resist. At about 14:30 Thursday, after watching other people work for a while, I just went home to get my stuff ready. On the way there, I called DK, said he was mentioned on the list and expected to make a guest appearance, which he did! Cool. I checked my light way too late. When I switched it on, it just went off after a minute. Ran around frantically looking for another one, and ended up using DK's spare one anyway. Like a choir, everyone shouted "roadie" when I got out the car. Didn't realise that after my first ever Argus being my first ever road bike race everyone would be that worried that I'd take it up seriously. After some hesitancy to lead, Oupa Gert led 12 gallant riders off into the night. We left Hardy and QT in their black mourning attire behind, suitably dressed because they're missing out. I felt slightly shaky on my bike, but thought that had to do with clearing my VW polo's throat on the way. We looked around for big dipper, but could not find it in the long grass. Following a single track led us to nowhere in particular; we circled back and then caught a trail past Cornwall hill college where I earned my privilege to be writing here. It's all DK's fault really because he was telling me about his fireblade kicking 120 KW, going at 130 in 1'st, 170 in 2'nd, and for a moment I thought I was on it. The landing was soft, in the long grass. The ego's landing was harder. We rode next to the rail track towards Smuts House, long grass hanging over the jeep track, some water puddles, wet grass in your face, smell of veld wet soil and crisp night air. Bliss. Past Smuts house down python and back. Watch out for the red rocks. And then we took a false quad buster, perhaps the bud quaster? The jeep track just dried up suddenly and we carried our bikes up to the top of quad buster. It felt like a real AR night, our second portage. To my surprise, Oupa Gert asked if this is the picnic spot. We were served with jam tarts, gluhwein, easter eggs and great conversation all round. DK and Cobus, being fiercely competitive and all, compared 9.7 and 9.8 k's on the clock up to here, bike weights (15 and 16 kgs) and who can drink the most gluhwein. The roadies would have been proud (my buddies of course). Down quad buster is more of a butt buster on the hard tail, but what fun! I'll take a blue ass any day for that. We then went back up past Smuts house up to the hiway, along side it up to St. Georges. Over the hiway and then did the Shebeen Queen speedway. Who took it? I was 3'rd. Back along the Cornwall hill wall to the Moo mall. About 20k's? Who knows? My endomondo was quite confused about this ride. It really wanted me to do a training ride, so I was in highveld technopark and back in about 2 minutes, with some other erratic spikes. We could still order burgers at the spur and even a couple of beers or hot chocolate. More chats about great adventures, great adventurers, some to come others past. But what about the next d&d? Aw, not on the MTN racing calendar? No, just pure fun, laughs, dirt. Thank you everyone, you're making a city dweller happy. PS. Hope this one goes through. My posts have been bouncing... -- Donald Klopper [email protected] -- 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. Disclaimer: This message and/or attachment(s) may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you may not disclose or distribute any of the information contained within this message. In such case you must destroy this message and inform the sender of the error. 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