Sydney February Ride - The Coffee Crawl
Thursday, March 1, 2012 ;)
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Another ride organised, another ride completed and then its time for a blog to share with all our members and the wwwwworld. I sit back in my chair thinking of how to use text to piece together the image and feelings of one of our rides. The feelings of adventure, freedom, friendship and the disappearance of life's problems.
Then outlook comes to the foreground of my PC monitor and I recieve an email from one of the latest members who has come on his first SCR ride. I read the email and it summerizes everything I needed to. So why not infrindge on copyright (like true 1%ers) and do some copy pasting?
Moving off from the first set of lights the sound of many loud motorcycles brought back many memories.
A superb day bringing up the rear, trying not to impose, getting entry speeds and position right, watching for wet patches, so as not to make a goose of myself.
Meandering down the coast flicking lefts and rights, at Stanwell Tops a pretty girl asks for a photograph, not of me unfortunately, but one of the bikes.
The way ahead opens magically, kids with their hands over their ears, running away, squeeling in delight, after a coffee I wander home and wonder why it’s so right.
To flick on the news and see the people of Homs being slaughtered by their own army, the western alliance making threats over a neighbor of Israel daring to want the weaponry they already have and wont give up, people killing others over the burning of a book on mythology and even our own desperate politicians doing their best impersonations of dumb and dumber.
And where was I today? looking out over the southern ocean talking about carburetor jet sizes, sprocket gearing, dyno testing, unit construction vs pre unit construction, sprung hub Triumphs, BSA’s, Royal Enfields and more.
What joy it was to be among such a diverse representation with focus only on the adventure and freedoms offered by motorcycling.
Thanks for the reminder of how lucky we are, I’ll be back.
Brian Harradence
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