XIII: The Curry Run(down)

Curry Run 13.

Saturday the 13th of October, 2007.

13 riders.

A total of 500 kilometres today.



We headed north for Curry Run XIII. Up the Mitchell freeway out towards Bullsbrook and out towards Chittering Valley Road. Everytime I go up there I wonder why the hell I go up there. I really do *hate* that road. Stopping in Bindoon for a fuel-up and a leak, we headed out towards Bindoon and then god knows where until hit an awesome stretch of straight roads until we finished in Mogumba. I'd never been there before, and seriously, there's a couple of houses, two streets and a pub. The smallest of small country towns. But they had the MotoGP qualifying on, the beer was cold and the pizza was hot.

Heading up to New Norcia for fuel, that stretch of road was awesome. Lots of flowing roads - something I don't get to do too often, keep pace and just GO!

Back down to Mogumba and out towards Bindoon again. That was my favourite stretch of road apart from the straights into Mogumba. Between there and Bindoon, the roads were clean, there weren't many shadows from trees, passed two cars in the space of about 40 minutes and just nice flowing road.

Was then back towards Toodyay where we headed on... some thinking we were going to stop for fuel, the back towards Great Northern Highway. When Savi and I came to a halt when we saw Glen and Keith stuck on the side of the road. "We're outta fuel!"

I gave Glen my camelbak and jumped on the back of the bike with Savi and headed about 10km's up to Muchea. We bought some water, drank some of it, tipped the rest and filled up 3L of fuel. Wrapped in a plastic bag and in my lap, we carted the fuel to the boys, who (by coasting) made it to Muchea and then the four of us filled up and headed to Joondalup for a cold beer and wedges.

Mister Curry and Trist then joined us at the pub only to report that Trist had also run out of fuel, but further up the road and left, just 10km's out of Bullsbrook. The first half of the pack had gone to Bullsbrook and some of them came back looking for us!

Either way, the day was incident-free and it was full of great roads, excellent riding and good mates. There was also chat of a Curry Run overnighter coming up...