Curry Run, with Added Pepper!

Saturday was the first Curry Run (with added pepper). Organised by the resident Tandoori Calamari (Indian Squid), Zephyrus (and Dan the Man). TOO MANY BRACKETS!!!
Anyway, we met up at the usual servo with a very decent group of riders. About 20 or so I'd say. Most with a fair amount of country riding experience, the rest like myself were pretty new to it all.

The day began with a 10am departure heading South into the sticks. The pace was swift and the roads were exciting. Mind you, I didn't push any more than I needed to, I'm still getting used to the R1 and I had no idea where we were.

Lots of windy roads, followed by some fast-paced straights, with some bumps, a honky nut here and there, a little bit of gravel... all was good. Big ups to Warpy too, the Brand-Name in country runs for helping us n00bs out and giving us a heads up on gravel/lines etc, where we were eventually named TEAM B; aka, the slow group!

Somewhere between the piss stop (where the photo below was taken) and lunch time I'd managed to blow out a headlight, where it fucked up my fuses and eventually blew both globes out and I was riding around in the sticks with no lights bar my parkies which are piss poor at the best of times. Kudos to Lee for locating my fuse box on the R1 during the lunch stop and making them work. Then they broke again. :(


After a lunch stop in Waroona we powered on to the "speed bowl". An awesome stretch of road in the middle of nowhere where the n00bs can tonker and the madmen can play. It started getting particularly cold early in the afternoon and everyone cut the meet short; an easy 300km ride instead of 400km.

The day concluded with a quick stop at Sean's place to pick up an exhaust bracket (thanks dude!!!) then off to Odin Spares (yes Lee, you told me so) to pick up some new globes and park lights. Couldn't help myself, but I picked up some blingin' fancy-pants tri-LED park lights and they look mint.