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Another sunrise is peeking through my office windows. I love getting to work early, and having a cigarette over sunrise, somehow it gets the day off to a good start.

Coffee helps too.

Got a busy day coming up, hopefully it won't be bad *grin* but there is only one way to find out .... get up and at em.

Watched Ghostrider last night (no NOT nick cage with a bad hairdo) fuckin awesome!!!
The guy is just ... man *admire*. I'm still trying to work out the you-tube thing, i'll try get a link in under here. He is (apparently) a rich guy, who loves bikes, and riding bikes, fast. No really you don't understand ..... 300km/h IN TRAFFIC????
Watching is eery, a friend of mine thought is was a snuff film, that's how crazy it is ... but when you watch carefully a couple of things appear. Stockholm is doing a LOT of roadworks (?); while the traffic seems to be similar to ours (minus taxis) they have trucks and various cars etc, no lane changing, or at least significantly less.
I was watching with the eyes of someone who has driven through jo'burg traffic, not only to and from work, but around, and i don't give cars as much credit as he does. Notably there too people have got no clue about indicators (those flashing orange lights on each corner of your car, and more(?) ..... yes you're supposed to USE the fucking things).
He uses the whole road, although prefers the fast lane, using the run off on either side of the road when needed. Now what i found truly awesome, is that the basic don't change, you come up behind a car, evaluate it, look for options, look for danger in any of the options (a really slow truck in the slow lane eg) then take your route. This takes about 5 seconds to comfortably establish. If you're wide awake, you can do it while coming up from behind, before slowing, or in heavy traffic you get behind the car and see what can be done.
Ghostrider does it at full tilt when he can, but interestingly enough, when you get a glimpse of his speedo (sunlight reflecting blocks it) he knows when to slow ... down to 60km/h in the city.

Man what an adrenaline rush just watching, my fingers and toes were twitching as i lay in bed *chuckle* like a dog having a good dream.

I have been watching the bikes come past while i've been carbound, and man it looks impressive hey? They just kinda glide past between cars, and nothing you do could imitate it ... you're stuck, they're not ... byebye.
In truth i found that the average speed is about 20km/h faster than traffic, not a heckuva lot, and on the bike it seems to take FOREVER to get past that car ....
But watching the other guys has been good, with the exception of a few phsychos (i saw a guy pull a wheelie coming on from Hans Strydom a couple of weeks back) we all take a similar approach. I believe it's just the safe, rational way to approach it, careful and cautious, and hitting the power once you know where you're going.

Tar and metal and rubber and slippery white lines. Trucks give me the creeps, tyres being much bigger and harder than you. And lots of, and turbulent, and loud. Absolutely no misunderstanding about what they are and what they do.

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round .....







Groovy!