Hey, if you get this, I can post, at last. On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Nicolai van der Merwe <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Otto! > > It was an honor riding with you and all the other legends of the Dark Night. > Legendary Gluhwein, easter eggs, cookies, chats about Trans Baviaans…  Let's > do it again! > > Who can still remember Black Beauty close to Irene next to the railway line? > Good times... > > On 3 Apr 2012, at 07:30, Donald Klopper (GMail) wrote: > > 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. > > > -- > 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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