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I felt like a fraud when I saw who turned up, but it proves my long-held conviction that training tends to be for those people that are already, by their thirst for knowledge and experience, the most qualified. It was also great to see all the “Master Riders” involved in so much discussion: if you wonder some riders get so good, look no further than this lot – they are all willing to share their experiences, and all willing to embrace new knowledge themselves. I hope my contribution of how an ex-cocky reads the rural road environment has given the townies a slightly enhanced look at how many more different ways to find an accident on a country road there are than you'ld first think.Great to see Graham back with us, after his off, and that Kerry didn't give him too much of a hard time. Like Rincewind, he looked slightly "underwhelmed" when he got presented with his "Tits Up Award". OK, I'll grant them a rubber glove isn't the ideal mould to use to create a plaster-of-paris udder: just think of it as conceptual art.I should, according to my original schedule, be well on the way to Wellington by now, but have delayed my departure because UncaMoose and I both forgot to put Wendy's Scrapbooks in his topbox to go back to Pukekohe before being taken to the Auckland meeting this evening. Wendy has been working on them for ages, and they finally surfaced yesterday - "them" not "it". They are not scrapbooks, they are artworks. She made two copies, one for Team Foley themselves, and another as an almost birthday prezzie for moi. They are amazing. So I delayed my departure to arrive in Pukekohe to give them the books to take to the meeting, except I'm only giving them one. The other is going to Wellington to the Committee Meeting, where it can be passed around to save me giving an Area Report. Wendy has encapsulated what we do in a way I could never achieve.The only shadow on the day yesterday was not having Kerry Red Baron along to share our almost birthday. Her family have had to cope with death in the family this weekend, and our hearts go out to her. We'll make up for it next year, darlin'!
Like Tony O' always says, organising bikers is like herding cats. YoungJim and Rusty monkeying around.
I don't know how much Josh, on the right of the photo, took away from the day, other than I'm sure he now thinks all old people are deranged. The group looked pretty dour when I got them to say, "cheese". This is the say, "Sex" photo, and it seems to have triggered fond memories.
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