Questioning my sanity (this seems to happen too much for my liking these days) as I rode to work, being passed by sleepy drivers leaving less than a foot between me and their 1.5 tonne steel boxes I was still feeling slow and not in the zone. I wasn’t even close to the zone – I’d need a bus pass before I made it to the zone. <\/p>\n
“What the hell zone are you referring to you crazy hippy?!”<\/p>\n
I’m talking about the smooth, fast, “what cars?” zone that makes most commutes a doddle.<\/p>\n
Taxi drivers would question my sanity if I asked them to take me to the zone, I was that far from it. <\/p>\n
Shit.. the point of this wasn’t to talk about the start of the ride it was to talk about the end. 7\/8ths of the way in I found my groove, my speed lifted and I felt good to be on a bike again. The sky behind me was a brilliant shade of pink (80’s fluoro? Hypercolour t-shirts?) and the Melbourne skyline as I rolled down Burwood Rd. was (what’s that word all those wanky artists use?) “surreal”.<\/p>\n
Outside the CBD was a light dusting of pink cloud “fur” and then as your gaze moved further towards the city centre it suddenly changed form to become a thick white umbrella, just covering Melbourne. It was like the city hadn’t taken its hat off! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
(15min passes)<\/p>\n
Now the pink fur has disappeared and has been replaced with the typically-Aussie blue sky along with the typically-Melbourne patches of cloud \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
The “umbrella” over the city has shifted into a hue of brilliant orange, the top of which now resembles real clouds – a large mass of rolling orange that will turn white as soon as the sun has fully risen.<\/p>\n
What the hell has all this got to do with bikes? Nothing! But it’s my blog so piss off the lots of yaz! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Questioning my sanity (this seems to happen too much for my liking these days) as I rode to work, being passed by sleepy drivers leaving less than a foot between me and their 1.5 tonne steel boxes I was still … Continue reading