....the adventure begins

Back home from my first proper Ebike  ride.... looking for a party on the beach that seems to have blown away in the howling wind. ..a crazy, exhilarating, wet ,windy and wild ride, headwind all the way there, and a crosswind to blow cobwebs away.....ending up with a micro party under a beautiful hazy moon.

I sure know how to chuck myself in at the deep end! We meant to set off in daylight, but by the time we were ready it was dark.....and somehow I'd knocked the little spoke sensor that tells the onboard computer how fast you're going, so the computer was throwing up error messages, and telling me I was doing 50 km/hr! Despite the error messages the bike did what it was supposed to do and was amazing! I had to keep myself from pushing too much as I didn't want to leave my other half behind!

I found myself actually saying thank you to the amazing little motor as it glided up hills that have had me struggling  and pushing myself to the limit!  ...I still need to work on my own courage levels;  some of the off road stuff was about at the edge of my scaredy cat levels. ..but feeling that extra push from the bike totally helped me get through some tricky terrain (very stony beach, lumpy tracks, big puddles, it even helped to push itself up the steps to our house on "walk" mode)...what a clever beast!...it felt like I had got on a thundering cart horse  after only riding ponies before...only just in control sometimes, but I can feel it's capability totally outstrips mine at the moment

The start of a beautiful relationship....

❤

  **update..this was on Friday. We went back out on Saturday night and found the party, exactly where it should be. The weather was the complete opposite of the night before. Cold and calm. We partied til 4am, then padded home easily in the first whisps of a rising sea mist. I caught hundreds of sticky strands of cobwebs on my face, and across the front of my bike as we rode. They were beautiful, sparkling and shimmering in the lights of the bike. I tried to take a pic but it was one of those ephemeral beauties that you just had to be there to enjoy, and for the first time in a very long time, I was there to see it

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