Coming home

After a short but solid night's sleep following my long day (and night) of riding I had to find my way back home.  Luckily I had two mates (Neil and Colin) to help prevent me from getting lost - they did however lead me astray and persuade me that I had to ride the Paraparas again.

Neil was bringing his Speedy down to Palmy for a service anyway and had skived off work so he could get it down.  For some reason though he didn't want to ride it, the Concours seeming to be far more attractive to him - so I ended up having to ride the Trumpy.

It was terrible, really terrible...and if you believe that, you'll believe anything!  I had a blast riding the Triple through the Paras and I think Neil was enjoying the Connie too - the LHS hero blob is slightly smaller now...

In Wanganui we had lunch at one of the cafes that the BRR team regularly invade before pootling our way over to Palmy to drop off the Speedy.

It's a tough life...

Somehow Neil managed to wangle another day off work (blimmin public servants and their cruisy jobs) so he could wait for the service to be completed but needed some wheels to get around on so he naturally went for the best thing available.

I had to fight to get it back off him...

Anyway, the Speedy is sorted and Neil has headed home so I guess he'll be back at work tomorrow while I start getting ready for the next wee adventure...