Thanks, I'm glad you guys enjoyed it as much as I did. I think we all have those days, when everything just hooks up, and those other ones where you feel like you botch every move, and the frustration just adds to it. +1 on being able to just hang up the leathers for the day when that happens. Usually it seems to me that too many cagers on the road cause that, when I just feel like I want them to all disappear and have Ortega all to myself, just for the one shot up and and over the mountain and back again.
I think I too just need to do a track day every few months to get that need to lean and hook up corners out of me, and just enjoy the slow ride more.
Tonight I threw on the leathers and did a nice smooth easy ride on a few local canyon backroads, they're mostly cruiser roads but gorgeous canyon views with very little traffic and I was treated to a spectacular red sunset over the ridge. The feel of the thrumming twin beneath me was magic and the temperature was perfect. I think I'll take the FZ back there tomorrow night and enjoy it all over again.
Now that it's getting dark earlier it is harder to go riding after work, but I made a promise to myself to get at least one evening ride in each week until it is dark by the time I get home. It was really therapeutic and I realized I haven't been doing enough pure riding for the sake of it lately.
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