it was the first day that i beheld the magnificence of a bike. when i was in M'sia, a Yamaha 125cc can easily be the king of the road. but on this particular day, i began to realize that i've yet to see the world. maybe i should put it this way - i've known how big the world is, but i haven't feel how big the world really is. everyone knows that the earth is really big, really huge. but when you see earth from outer space, when earth is just a tiny dot, there is this unspeakable feeling, like when you look but you do not see, and behold, now you see...
19th July 2008 is just the day for me to actually "see". i was riding along together with about 400 riders, and each of them has a bike bigger and faster than my Honda 250cc. in other words, i was the smallest and the slowest. =.=" if only you can imagine the sight. luckily, the members of the association MRASA took a lot of photos along the way. you can check it out at the website that i provided earlier. here is a clip that i downloaded form the site as well, just wanna upload it here for convenience purposes, and for my private collection, hehe.
(these are only part of the bikes. we were on our way to meet another group of bikers on the mountains. i'm hidden among the last group of riders...the one with the yellow tank...)
i will save the purpose of the ride for you to read from the ride report that you can get from the link. i just want to share the experience here. i don't think you can get any tiny bit of that experience from any country from Asia. listening to the roaring, thundering sound from the machines of about 400 bikes, it is an orgasm for every biker, no doubt. i wonder how it will be like during MotoGP races...my friend's been to MotoGP at Melbourne, and what he described to me was exactly like a biker's heaven. you can see an ocean of bikes, far-stretched until they connect with the sky, creating a bike-sky horizon. everyone is like family. and it is as if everyone speaks the same language. you say hi with a blow from your engine, and people greet you back the same way. hell, this is better than speaking English, haha. and my friend told me that there will be people doing wheelies everywhere. i'd be guessing that there are more than wheelies to see around there. gosh, going to the States to watch NBA used to my dream. but sorry, i can't grow taller anymore to join NBA but i can still save enough money to get myself a really nice bike to ride on. so, MotoGP comes before NBA from now on.
anyone who is interested to join me to Melbourne for bike pilgrimage is more than welcomed to do so. but it would be within a year or two, due to financial matters. but nonetheless, it will happen, hopefully, within 5 years time. so, meanwhile, keep the words spreading...
