Afraid Not with Karen Ramsay

Afraid Not with Karen Ramsay

This entry is part 10 of 26 in the series Adventure Rider Issue #4

I’m not sure if it’s just me, but there are some things about riding that scare me witless. These include, but aren’t limited to: sand, clay, mud, bulldust, steep downhills, steep downhills with sharp bends and steep downhills with rocks, sand and sharp bends. And highways.

So inclined

The latest thing to send me into palpitations is Sugarloaf Road – the one between Paddys Flat and Drake in NSW. It wasn’t because the sign said ‘No Through Road’, or even that I’d held the clutch all the way in – while standing on the back brake around washouts, trees and rocks – to the bottom of a steep hill. It was the climb up the other side over a stretch of malicious rocks that constantly threw my bike from one side of the track to the other. When we eventually reached the top, my little Terra promptly took out an AVO against me for choking it all the way up the hill.

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