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Hello cold people,
I went on a nice long ride today. It was great. I thought I'd rub it in.
My wife and I organised a group ride for her SV owners club. We had 9 bikes show up for it. Only 5 were SVs. Then there was my Kat, a Suzuki VX, a cruiser style bike that I didn't pay much attention to, and an old Moto Guzzi (which went like a rocket).
I led off through the traffic areas from our meeting place to our proper start point. We just buzzed along at the speed limit (none of us wanted a ticket before we got to the good bits). It feels good leading a group of 9 bikes. A nice little ego boost type feeling. Anyway, took about 20 minutes to reach the start of the twisties. Then we changed order and up the first bit of twisties. Stopped at the top of the mountain for a few minutes to regroup and grab a drink, and off down the other side of the mountain. We then headed a further 4km off to a small town and stopped for another drink.
At this point 5 of the bikes headed back home (we'd spent about an hour and a quarter on the twisities). The rest of us went on. For about 3 times the distance travelled so far.
3 of us (my wife, me and an SV rider) had never been this route before, so we followed the guy on the Moto Guzzi. He had these skinny knobbly tires, and a bag on the back, yet he seemed to have no problems at cruising along at 160km/h (100mph) as we swept through some long corners heading around a lake. It was really nice.
We stopped at a T-Intersection at the back end of Mt Glorious (Katgirl knows where that is
) and that is where some of the photos below were taken. Then off up the mountain, down the other side and then back home.
Awesome fun (very sore neck and shoulders right now).
Anyway, here are some pics.
The bikes at the meeting point. You can see my Kat behind the front blue SV. The yellow SV is my wifes.
The sign at the bottom of Mt Glorious telling you all about the upcoming twisties. These aren't all of them. These are just the ones that are hairpins.
A shot at the T-intersection. Lots of bikes stop here. You get to stretch, relax, and watch squids doing wheelies and stoppies.
A better view of the intersection. Notice the sunny blue sky. It is normally like that here
Our four bikes at the T. You can see the Moto Guzzi in the front.
Anyway, enough rubbing your noses in it. I might do it again next weekend.
I went on a nice long ride today. It was great. I thought I'd rub it in.
My wife and I organised a group ride for her SV owners club. We had 9 bikes show up for it. Only 5 were SVs. Then there was my Kat, a Suzuki VX, a cruiser style bike that I didn't pay much attention to, and an old Moto Guzzi (which went like a rocket).
I led off through the traffic areas from our meeting place to our proper start point. We just buzzed along at the speed limit (none of us wanted a ticket before we got to the good bits). It feels good leading a group of 9 bikes. A nice little ego boost type feeling. Anyway, took about 20 minutes to reach the start of the twisties. Then we changed order and up the first bit of twisties. Stopped at the top of the mountain for a few minutes to regroup and grab a drink, and off down the other side of the mountain. We then headed a further 4km off to a small town and stopped for another drink.
At this point 5 of the bikes headed back home (we'd spent about an hour and a quarter on the twisities). The rest of us went on. For about 3 times the distance travelled so far.
3 of us (my wife, me and an SV rider) had never been this route before, so we followed the guy on the Moto Guzzi. He had these skinny knobbly tires, and a bag on the back, yet he seemed to have no problems at cruising along at 160km/h (100mph) as we swept through some long corners heading around a lake. It was really nice.
We stopped at a T-Intersection at the back end of Mt Glorious (Katgirl knows where that is
) and that is where some of the photos below were taken. Then off up the mountain, down the other side and then back home.Awesome fun (very sore neck and shoulders right now).
Anyway, here are some pics.
The bikes at the meeting point. You can see my Kat behind the front blue SV. The yellow SV is my wifes.
The sign at the bottom of Mt Glorious telling you all about the upcoming twisties. These aren't all of them. These are just the ones that are hairpins.
A shot at the T-intersection. Lots of bikes stop here. You get to stretch, relax, and watch squids doing wheelies and stoppies.
A better view of the intersection. Notice the sunny blue sky. It is normally like that here
Our four bikes at the T. You can see the Moto Guzzi in the front.
Anyway, enough rubbing your noses in it. I might do it again next weekend.
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