Today I took off for a ride, just an average 120 miles of going no where and do nothing but riding. I still say that only a biker can log miles, go nowhere when doing so and end up saying nothing about the average every day ride. So todays writing is about just that, an average ride. No thrills no spills no nothing exciting happened.
As the tempters around here have been and are now staying around the triple degree mark, I decide that I would chase the activity of where the pop up showers where going to be. With all the technology this is made pretty easy with apps one can get on their " smarter then me phones". Besides chasing storms is a habit that I have from being a storm chaser when I was younger, some habits just are hard to break and the older the habit the harder it is to break the habit. But anyway not only did this keep me 15 degrees cooler but I was hoping that me the "Rain Goddess" as my friends call me, might just tempt mother nature to deliver some needed rain back home. Even though we did have a very wet winter, all of the shallower creeks and rivers are drying up and the earth is needing the moisture. But my temping of Mother Nature did not work.
Last Sunday when the family went out for a ride We were all heading back to the locker and instead of turning down one of what use to be my favorite roads. I say use to be because it did have these really great turns. Basically right and left hand turns at 40 miles per hour. But then some road engineers decided to make all these turns stop. They just ruined my fun when they did that. I decide to take a road I had never thought about riding down before. At first it was like most roads at home, straight some small hills. Nothing to really write about. But this is now my new all time favorite I compare it to my favorite which is a little lake road, not much in distance maybe 7 miles in length but it has curves and banks and even a few curvy banks... Any way today doing this new favorite road for the second time in my life going the opposite direction I came from last time. I was having myself to much fun and was soon reminded when I turned in to a tight curve. I was going over the posted safe speed like always and scraped my bottom brace of my running boards... I felt it dig into the pavement and knew I had better back off the throole a little. So I slowed to only 10miles over posted speed... still had some fun and survived the ride this way.
But after all the fun on this road it was back to the boring straight flat blocks that even though I love to ride these roads are about as boring as roads can be for a motorcycle, unless you are a racer. I was clearing my head and finding me some Zen that only my motorcycle and a road gives to me. Later after going down the boring road a few miles I got stuck behind a 18 wheeler from one of the local earth moving company's. Now I am no speed demon on a bike or in my car but I do tend to have a problem with keeping any thing at a posted speed, a trait I am told I get from my father. Any way as the big truck was traveling at posted speed, and who can blame him they get big tickets when they are caught doing things most drivers get away with. I waited till it was safe to pass on this little two lane road. But when I did I had a mile of nothing but a straight road in front of me and no one on it so I cracked the throttle hard and when I hit 95 while passing the big truck my shirt blow up and Mr trucker got flashed my bra... Good thing I had on a bra, lol.
So my average every day boring go no where do nothing but ride turned into chasing clouds and chasing curves... scraping boards and flashing truckers... not a bad way to spend some time.
PS: This little ride happened this past summer, It just took till now for me to think about writing some thing about it. Must be me day dreaming as it is 10 degrees and riding is not really an option for me right now.
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