Hopper scored an invite to a three-day ride on the NSW south coast.
Two close calls.
Gary (Eyebrows) and I were to meet Ron and Peter in Penrith, and they were to lead us via backroads to Nowra. Scott and Bruce were to make their own way after work.
I’d knocked off at 11.30am for lunch with She Who Must Be Obeyed and had started packing when a phone call came in from Gary.
His bike wouldn’t start due to a flat battery caused by leaving the GPS on all night (that’s why mine is wired through the ignition). The one-hour delay meant making our own way to Nowra, leaving Freemans Waterhole at 2.20pm in the rain for a good run to Sydney and through the new NorthConnex tunnel, but finding the M2 totally gridlocked. Many clicks of lane splitting finally cleared us of the traffic and we left the highway at Mittagong for what’s usually an awesome ride through Kangaroo Valley. But not on this day. The cold, heavy rain, fog and near zero visibility made the tight hairpins not enjoyable.