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After the Rain
In my early retirement years our Thursday and Tuesday cycling group would hurtle through here on our road bikes. Dangerous? Most definitely! Ten COBWEBs – crazy old blokes with expensive bikes – zooming along nose-to-tail despite knowing full well that there might be a similar chain gang approaching from around the corner. Often it was as little as five seconds from first sighting the approaching mob, hopefully on their side of the thin white line down the middle of the bikeway, until actually passing – each preposterous peloton obeying the unwritten wetlands rule of never touching the brakes and keeping to a constant 30 km/h. In all those years, I had only one head-on collision (of which I have no recollection).
On this Thursday morning I had the wetlands all to myself but, on the way back, took the more 'sensible' route, riding alongside to Highway One.
Boondall Wetlands Bikeway, Brisbane
13 km; 6:55 am
The Boondall Wetlands are not usually wet; the last few weeks have been the exception.13 km; 6:55 am
In my early retirement years our Thursday and Tuesday cycling group would hurtle through here on our road bikes. Dangerous? Most definitely! Ten COBWEBs – crazy old blokes with expensive bikes – zooming along nose-to-tail despite knowing full well that there might be a similar chain gang approaching from around the corner. Often it was as little as five seconds from first sighting the approaching mob, hopefully on their side of the thin white line down the middle of the bikeway, until actually passing – each preposterous peloton obeying the unwritten wetlands rule of never touching the brakes and keeping to a constant 30 km/h. In all those years, I had only one head-on collision (of which I have no recollection).
On this Thursday morning I had the wetlands all to myself but, on the way back, took the more 'sensible' route, riding alongside to Highway One.
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