Well after weddings, family, work, kids, and generally people, that itching call of the helmet took over, so it was teela of to work, My daughter off to the neighbors for the morning, and on the road it was!
you forget how the world slows down inside your helmet, you get clarity to what your trying to think about, breath a little slower, and simply...you relax.....
todays run was only a 180km, but it was simply the best feeling i have had in a month!
Diesel and i had organised for Coffee and a OzSTOC Meeting at the Esk Bakery, where they had heard of the wedding so it made the day even better as they shouted me a big breakfast and a coffee as congratulations, and they would not take no for an answer!
Diesel and I spend an hour and a half talking through all the background stuff that we had not had a chance to deal with, since we both and been so busy....but that look of helmet time crept in again, so we shook hands and headed on our separate ways.
I decided to come back through Gatton, and come back up flagstone creek road as the roads twist and turn nicely through there, combined with the glorious weather, I could have ended up in Sydney if i didnt stop!
as i was coming into gatton i got caught up with a group of about 40 bikes heading somewhere, all makes and models, even saw a nice Indian and a norton mixed up there, which reminded me all politcs aside, and opinions it is the road that counts at the end of the day.
as i was turning left to head out of Gatton i spied a White ST1100, so it was a quick U turn and wheel in to say hello! Turns out Ian had literally joined the club today under the name of mikan13, he has a very nice 1999 model police ST1100, we ended up chatting for about 20 mins, heck of a nice bloke i must say, he is looking forward to coming along to the Maleny RTE and learning more about what we do, and who we are!
so that was two good stops with two good ST Owners, Today has getting better.
So the turn for home, up all the back roads, and just generally having fun, even met an interesting bloke with an interesting letter box, who wants a more interesting letter box, but i have already posted about this elsewhere.....
It still amazes me that only doing a 180km on the bike, on good roads seeing good people, just makes me appreciate why we ride in the first place, to set aside the complications outside of our helmets, let the wind hit us, and enjoy the road in front of us....bring on toomorrow and some more road....
Cheers
Streak (Graham)
