sunday heatsville

finally summer hit us, or some summer at least, maybe we should call it some-er... anyway, all met at Steve's, even tho he wasnt riding. nearly at steve's i was crossing over the heathcote river bridge on Opawa road when this car pulls along side and goes to go ahead of me and then turns left into where i'm going to steve's, so i'm thinking, this is a bit dodgey, but i'm going this way anyway, so i wont say anything. i can see all the fella's outside steves, some of who are watching me, and then this woman keeps turning, making for the first driveway round the corner, and i'm getting edged off the road to the curb, all at about 20-25kph, and i slam on my brakes keeping it incontrol and yell top of my lungs, 'FUCK OFF YOU STUPID FUCKING BITCH!!!" and finally she realises she's cutting me off and stops, me millimetres away from slamming into her side, cos i was way running out of room. i stayed upright, didnt dab, and pedalled around the front of her car and onwards to the boys who are all looking now... anyway, i'm shaking by the time i get there, with one of those stupid adrenalin grins on, and then a minute later she drives up and she's almost in tears and totally apologises profusely and is so so sorry and will never do anything like that again and said she'd thought she had room and didnt see me etc... i apologised for my gut reaction of swearing and abusing at the top of my lungs...

so anyway, there's pete, matt, andrew, chris, wayne, and me. we headed up rapaki, pretty uneventfully, felt good on the geared machine, new shoes felt very good, nice and stiff. the day was very very warm, and pretty muggy too. turned right on the singletrack, i think wayne and chris rode the road round. crossed summit road, and carried on round trail to vic, stopped in the shade and then headed over Thomson's Track down to Kiwi. Pete, Matt and me waited and waited and waited, and eventually i txted Andrew. still no word, then down they rolled... Wayne had a VERY sore foot... he'd gone off just entering the forest on Thomsons where Tony had gone down the bank on one of his first rides. where tony just got scratched up a bit, poor old wayne has fractured his foot! (didnt know that at the time of course). anyway, Andrew, Chris and Wayne headed down Dyers Pass Rd, and Matt Pete and me headed up to top of Marley's on road, then down Flying Nun, Dyers Track and up into Vic, down Dazza's, and out bottom. all excellent descents, with me cleaning every log drop and the washout at bottom of K2. home by 12.15. drank a LOT of water, and grabbed a poweraid on way home for the electrolytic replacement therapy

Off to Tekapo tonight, then Glenorchy (Kinloch actually) tomorrow. taking the geared beast, and i intend on riding Moke and Dispute Lakes as well as the Seven Mile Creek tracks, just out of Q'stown. next posts next week.