Today I went nuts... no, I went MAD!

Yes, today was the MAD Ride and what a perfect day it was to see about 1000 bikes ride from Shenton Park Hospital to Scarborough Beach.


Check-in was $10 from 9am but I got in about 9:20 after stopping of at the ATM for some cash. Of course, being rugged up in gear means that I withdrew about $300 with my helmet on. The guy from the drycleaners was fully scoping me out like I was doing something dodgy. I swear he had a notepad with my rego number and was about to ring the cops. I hope I don't get a phonecall...


Anyway, the best part of the day was catching up with heaps of fellow riders like Kym and Stu, Lush, Carly, Col, Saf and Jana, Frank, Jeff, Dugy, Dave and Keez, Casey and Ryan, Rebecca, Shrike, Gavin, AhnLong...

So off I go on the ride, waving a honking at kids on the side of the road, getting waves back. The ride wasn't as slow as last year's, with traffic management being a little more organised. Some bottleneck slow spots, but it was riders' faults for making four lines of bikes over two lanes then merging back into one lane. Silly badgers. My bike was well behaved and didn't get too hot.

I saw one small incident where a lady on a cruiser has either ridden into the back of another bike or simply lost footing on the side sloping hill and its gone over. She was fine and I didn't really see the bike; just unlucky I guess.

Pulling up to park in Scarborough was a bit of a nightmare, people all over the place, bikes trying to park on the diagonal. Now the poor girl was getting a little warm... I parked up only to be told by the guy I had parked in that he was about to leave. At least he told me! We swapped spots and I was clear to move my bike for the rest of the afternoon.

I grabbed my jacket and headed to check out the stalls and marquees. I was really impressed with the PSB Girls stall with calendars for sale - WOW only $25 (with proceeds going to MAD), and I'm in it! YES - I'm in JULY 2007! w00t!


Some wicked bikes were on show, and spoke to Aaron from RILUSI. The shop front of RILUSI Motorcycles should be ready for November 4th, and he told me that he'd cog my bike for free if I chuck some promo stickers on it. Hmm, tempting. But still doesn't change the fact that the drags are $40 and are a complete rip. But still, he's got gear coming in and that means only good things.

Heaps of prizes were given away on the day and of course, the Casey Stoner Race Replica CBR1000RR- which I didn't win so move along, nothing to see here.

The ride home was uneventful also but it was good to see so many bikes on the roads today. In all, a great time was had.

MAD 2007...? Hell yeah!