Ditto
Enjoyed a great day riding mainly with Marcus, Adamski, & David B, not necessarily all the time, but often enough...
It amazes me how quiet it all was, despite being close to the towns and villages.
Had a silly moment. I forgot to reconnect the long strap that tightens around the Koala bag on the seat post. Some time later I was descending a really fast hill with really smooth tarmac, touching 60 kph, and feeling totally secure, when the rear wheel locked up completely. Oh shit, I'm doing an extended Swedish Rally sideways slide at over 50 kph, and the bikes not even slowing and its twitchy all over the place and its still happening and oh god I'm beginning to get scared and I don know whether to jump or fight the slide till it stops...funny how you get scared when there is time to visualise the pain... Any way I finally stopped and saw what had happened... The strap had wound round and found the rear axle, and in so doing it stopped the wheel... The tyre had worn right through the tread and two layers of puncture resistant material, and the damage was roughly the size of my little finger, and it looked horrible, but the air was still safe inside it, so I tried riding it expecting it to blow at any time, but it lasted another maybe 180 Kms.. Go figure...