Shows how subjective weather is, high 20’s low 30’s is perfect riding weather imho!! Yet Jess and I did a 525km loop on Saturday and the temps were a high of 17 deg C and 5-6 deg by the time we got home. Even though we both had thermals, a layer of clothes, and quilted textiles on we were both frozen!! I remember thinking “The TS boys would be scoffing at me right now”Rossgo wrote:Both days been 31 degrees. Unsure how kiwi and the other Oz lads do it in that temp! However great for tyres!
It was the longest ride I’ve done in a day since my NZ tour and the longest Jess has spent on a bike. We got away late so did it in 2 stints of about 3 hrs each. Only stopping for a 1/2 hr lunch when the tank ran dry. There were heaps of bikes out and I saw some very stupid moves and shook my head in wonder how some of these guys survive. As we heading off after lunch we soon caught up to a small bunch of riders, the lead guy was on a 1198. They were well below what I like to travel at ( and we were heading down a quiet national park windy road, so didn’t want any roadblocks). The 1198 guy left his mates and tried to keep up. Every set of corners he dropped back and then nailed it on the straights to catch up. Once we hit the steep twisty climb out of the valley I never saw him again. Not bad on a old Multi two up
. After that we encountered some serious wind, I’ve never had a big bike been blown around so badly, it wore me out constantly making adjustments to counter it. The last hour was just focused on getting home. Was gettting dark and cold and we didn’t really enjoy it much. Our fault for taking too long to get out of bed in the morning... but there were no kids in the house, so that had to be taken advantage of 
At least I know Jess can handle a big day on the bike so can plan some bigger rides away when we get the chance.
i used to loose a lot though!!
