I got up about 8am, had a shower, some breakfast, mucked around on the computer.

I left about 8:50, headed down to my mate's place. He said to be there for 9am.

I got there about 9.03, no sign of him. I tried calling him, no answer. I left a message. I waited 10 minutes for him to call back.

I gave up, and then decided to go for a quick ride down the freeway to see if I could see anything. I went past the first exit, I hate that area, and took the second exit, thinking I would just ride down the old road from there, to see if I could see any other bikes or anything (since I wasn't sure where I was going).

The second exit of the freeway came swinging around, and there were bikes parked up. I parked near them, and jumped off. My blinker had fallen off again.

I started having a chat with the guy on the bike next to me. My phone rang, it was my mate who's place I went to and he wasn't there, he was already here.

I swaggered over to find him, there was a truckload of bikes here already, and it's only like 9.30

I found him, had a chat for a bit. He introduced me to some guy he knows. He then lined up for that guy to do some "tricks" on his bike. I didn't like the sound of that, it's not the time or place for it, a ton of bikes moving around, and people wandering near the road.

He went up and back the street a few times, popping monos, it took the cops (which had been doing laps of the area) about 3 seconds to catch on, and come close. The cop car with the radar on it just stopped in the middle of the road, waiting for him to come around the corner to catch him.

My mate went running around the corner, and warned him, so he didn't come flying around the corner on the back wheel.

A car turned up, and then the cop had to move, since he was blocking the road.

That was the end of that.

I got chatting to a marshall, he talked me into buying some raffle tickets, to win a little dirt bike. I bought 3 tickets for $5, then I realised I only had $7 something on me. Oops.

We wandered around for a bit, looking at all the bikes, there must have been about 300 bikes parked up, near the biker's Cafe, and all along the road. Tons of bikes were going back and forth on the road past it all day too. I think there would easily have been 500 - 600 bikes in the area throughout the day, if not more.

Another mate was going to be coming down about lunch time, I sent him an SMS warning him of all the cops.

I borrowed some money off my mate, and got some lunch. He went back to his place, to pick up his other son (who I was supposed to bring down, but he wasn't out of bed when I went there, and his dad, my mate, who I was supposed to be going with, had already left).

My other mate turned up a few hours later, apparently there were tons of cops around now. We wandered around the area looking at all the bikes (and chicks :-) again.

Yet another mate was supposed to be turning up, but when he rang, we talked him out of it, his bike is unregistered, and his license suspended, and there's too many cops about here.

The cops were always visible, at the end, when we left, after hours there, there were 3 radar cars lined up, and all day they were doing laps past the Cafe. At one point, 4 officers did a foot patrol through the area, in a group, bit pathetic.

We came back up the freeway, caught up with our other mate at the service station.

I went to buy some water, remembered I didn't have much cash, tried to use the ATM to withdraw some, but it was dumb, and just ignored my putting my card in, so I dumped the water, and walked out. I then checked, and realised I had enough cash for the water after all that. Can't be bothered now.

We saw a guy with a bike at the servo, my mate reckoned it had Nitrous Oxide on it, I doubt it. The guy did a lap, and came back into the servo, so my other mate went over and asked him.. it was just part of the air intake system.

After that we went for a ride out to Pearl Beach, (noticed the blinker fallen off again) had a chat, I went and bought a bottle of water with my last couple of bucks, and then we came back to my mate's place.

We jumped in the car, went and bought beer and food, had a few drinks, had dinner, sat and had a chat and a laugh for a while.

I'd had a headache all day, and it got really bad, so I took my mate home, on the way we stopped in at the supermarket, so he could get some cigarettes, and I bought some panadol.

The guy at the checkout was a guy I did my bike learners or P course with, he asked if I still had the 250, I told him I had my 650, and how I had to go to Queensland to avoid getting banned from riding for a year. I couldn't chat for long, because I was holding the line up.

I was distracted by talking to the guy, so by habit, I rang up Credit on my card, instead of Savings, bugger, I wanted some cash out. Oh well, $3 on the credit card :-)

I dropped my mate at home, and then I came home.

I went and had a chat with my parents.

I'll have to do something about that bloody blinker. My mate helped me fix the other one before, I have to try and remember what we did.