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  • gidgi
    gidgi
    4 years ago
    Sounds like you took in all the sights & smells of the day, the excitement in your words from your ride reminds me why, I ride, our sensors are heightened long after we come home . great that your back on the bike after 10 years .. Enjoy  
  • Wideglider
    Wideglider
    4 years ago
    Yeah Hogger, when riding you really do get a heightened experience of 'aromas', pleasant & sometimes not so pleasant. The unmistakable pong of a dead animal just hits you, it's not always a roo, can be wombats, pigs or deer around my way. Riding through forests or farmland you get a great varied whiff of trees & earth around you, especially just after rain.
    Your 200 kays not bad, I find myself going on longer & longer rides as the years pass, some days will do 600 kays to explore a new route, normally always home for dinner though!

  • Baloffski
    Baloffski
    4 years ago
    Hogger, that was a nice tale from a short ride, good for the soul. 
    The smells, the sounds, and the senses, are awakened when riding a motorcycle.
    In more recent time I have lost the serenity that riding my big fat old girl (the bike) just being, instead riding for transport, A  to B stuff.
    Thanks for reminding me.
  • brucefxdl
    brucefxdl
    4 years ago
    suppose that depends on where A starts and where B ends.
  • Wideglider
    Wideglider
    4 years ago
    A to A is ok too - a long loop ride.
  • Baloffski
    Baloffski
    4 years ago
    Then again, B to B is pretty cool. 
    But B to B looped was very cool.
    Long time ago Christmas day used to be a fav day of mine long to ride my bike along the Montacute Scenic Road, loop, from memory it was about 28 kms of windey road in the Adelaide Hills, and hardly any fucken fucker was on the road as Christmas day around lunchish time, and most had their feed bags on...just had to watch any water running down the road. Hope fires didn't fuckup too much there. Ralphski?
  • brucefxdl
    brucefxdl
    4 years ago
    Quoting Wideglider on 23 Dec 2019 01:07 PM

    A to A is ok too - a long loop ride.

    thats it WG any ride is a good ride,nice to not back track as well
  • Wideglider
    Wideglider
    4 years ago
    Bruce means not tracking-back the same way you came - with a loop you get different road all the way.
    If you're talking about 'back-roads', yeah agree, taking the longest route by secondary backroads is the most enjoyable on a bike.
  • brucefxdl
    brucefxdl
    4 years ago
    Quoting Wideglider on 24 Dec 2019 06:53 AM

    Bruce means not tracking-back the same way you came - with a loop you get different road all the way.

    If you're talking about 'back-roads', yeah agree, taking the longest route by secondary backroads is the most enjoyable on a bike.

    that was it WG,agree bullant, good back roads bring all sorts of surprises to..camp spots,out of the way pubs and food shops...gotta eat.
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