Thursday, February 19, 2009

That's Just Horse Sh*t


I saw this sign and had to pull the 'Velo over to get a shot. Not only was it a great sign but I loved the line about karma which I saw as I got closer. It made think it was all a bunch of horse sh*t. There are so many hippies round these parts it's hilarious.

Talking of the bike I was out on a magical mystery tour and it was the ride that kept giving. Loads of hills, followed by more hills with an extra serving of hills. I have never sweated so much in my life. I also managed to lose my full bottle of energy drink, which was worrying at first. Then I went through a small place from by gone time that had just one shop. Luckily it was open and had Gatorade alongside all the home baking. I just hope the lady serving didn't cook the food as it would have taken about two weeks she was so old and slow.

About an hour later after riding a big climb I was greeted by a junction that went on to the main highway. Gutted. Did I turn back or run the risk. Naturally I took the latter option, which proved to be the wrong one. Soon I was hitting 50mph down the hill with huge trucks inches away. Add a big side wind and the deep section front wheel was all over the place. I'm not often properly scared on the bike but this was one of those times. Luckily there was a junction 2km down the hill. While it didn't take long to get there my life went into slow mo with sound blurred. I was properly horse pooing myself.

Luckily I survived the highway but then Murphy with his famous law saw a car traveling at a slow speed and indicating left turn right as I went around. Bang! Fortunately it was one of those bounce off and continue riding crashes at a slowish speed. Aussie drivers just love bikes so much. It's worse than the UK. Looking forward to more horse play on the roads tomorrow.

2 comments:

Anthony Brown said...

that post was complete horse shit. Nice work ozzer

Ozzer said...

I loved the karma bit. I guess I was tired by this time and had been hit by car.
Oz