Two Seasons In One Ride
It's been a funny old week weather-wise, I've been wearing shorts most of the week as it's been quite warm but then towards the end of the week it started to turn a bit cooler and then the forecast turned to thunder and lightning. It reminded me of being in the UK in 2001, (the second year of GSXR ownership), for most of the short UK riding season the weather was great from Monday to Thursday and then rained until Sunday evening meaning no biking at the weekend. The GSXR only did about 150 miles in the whole year, 100 of those were taking it to be serviced, not good.
Over the course of the year, Spain has quite a few National Fiestas (Bank Holidays) and I tend to forget about them until a couple of days before. Usually, this means I don't have time to organise anything and another bonus biking day goes by without turning a wheel.
Sometimes you just need to get out on your bike, it doesn't matter where you are going or how long you will be out, you just need to be out. This is how I felt last Saturday.
It was a nice day for an explore and I had an excuse as I was going down to Crevillent for the Orange Days event at 
Having new tyres fitted and setting off on them for the first time can be a bit daunting especially if the tyres are of a type you haven't tried before. Listening to all of the stories from friends about "scrubbing in times", watching racers slide off on their outlap and the commentators wax lyrical about new tyres and their "break in period", it's enough to put some people off.
Not many takers for this trip, only the three of us, but we had a great time anyway. I took the usual route down the Calpe Bends (N332) to the BP petrol station at the top of the town to meet up with David and Stu. David, I have known for years but Stu replied to my post on the