Yeah, good. So, another red-bull-tinged Sunday morning. Nice enough weather to consider getting the bike out, not actually nice enough to do it though; it’s still wet outside, and there’s no way I’m riding when it’s wet. Yeah, I’m not a “proper biker” for doing that, but most people who say that don’t happen to own a car. And smell of wee. And besides, I’ve done all the “proper biker” bit, and it was deeply unpleasant; I ride now because it’s fun, not because I’m trying to prove I can endure arctic conditions and torrential rain while risking my neck on a vehicle that has two patches of rubber the size of a tennis ball between me and ultimate doom….<\/p>\n
But I think I’ll get the rally car out instead, as it’s only 7 days until it will finally be used in “anger”. Although I think bewilderment will probably be more the order of the day, given that both I and Kev are complete novices. Steve Colville (rally guru and generally helpful chap) used the phrase “the blind leading the blind”, which I guess is just about accurate. I would like to think that I won’t be totally incompetent, but I think that’s probably a little far fetched. Anyway, in 7 days, Smeatharpe<\/a> will be upon us (hopefully we won’t be impaled on anything), which i am really looking forward to. I’m nervous already. And I’m a bit worried that I’ve heard _nothing_ back from them, so I guess I’ll see what the deal is there…. I need to know what number I am (obviously the last one in the field, but that’s no surprise really, is it?), so I can get some big old numbers for the doors. And stuff like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yeah, good. So, another red-bull-tinged Sunday morning. Nice enough weather to consider getting the bike out, not actually nice enough to do it though; it’s still wet outside, and there’s no way I’m riding when it’s wet. Yeah, I’m not a “proper biker” for doing that, but most people who say that don’t happen to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skodarallyblog.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}