2018 Ride for Kids
Today I'd decided to support a local charity ride benefiting kids with Down Syndrome - a nice idea and I was happy to give them my $20. But things could have gone better...
I arrived fairly early and signed on and spoke to a few riders while I waited in the hot sun. With a lot of agricultural equipment surrounding me I felt a little like the odd one out but hey, it was great that the ride was getting a good turn out. The photos below are pretty much before "everyone" arrived, I'd say that before we left there would easily have been 4-5 times as many bikes.
Early days yet...
Beauty amongst the beasts...After a desperate SOS text to James (Ok, so he was just running a little late) there was finally another quality machine in the line-up. There was actually a fairly decent smattering of bikes: a gold-wing or 2 (one with a hound as co-pilot), some proper V-twins, learner bikes, a Vespa, a brace of 'busas and yeah, plenty of compressors.
Eventually, we had a short ride briefing where the we were told that the main thing for us to do was to ride safe and be careful...nice idea...
The lest said about the ride itself the better really - James and I pulled out when we hit Tiritea. The videos can speak for themselves - although I did not have the camera going when some of the worst of the riding was going on.
Check out this hairy-chested, bad-ass...probably someones accountant...
And then we came to Valley Road. This ones a little trick...
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