KIWI RIDER 06 2020 VOL1 | Page 56

STILL THINK WE’RE ALL ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY OF RAINBOW-COLOURED BROTHERS? THINK AGAIN... LONG-DISTANCE IRON-BUTTERS Not one of these droners is right in the head. Dark demons possess the souls of riders who seek to ride 1200 kilometres in 12 hours. Or 2400 kilometres in 24 hours. Or 76,900 kilometres in 36 hours. Well, it’s either demons or some kind of OCD cerebral damage that encourages these people to wallow in the hubris of long-distance riding... for the sake of long-distance riding. It’s not like they actually have a destination. They just bang out the miles and might as well be riding in circles. They speak in nods and grunts and walk like penguins, smelling faintly of urine. THEY CAN BE FOUND Koorawatha, Emerald, Kalgoorlie, Mt Augustus, Ivanhoe, Mataranka, Yungaburra, as well as isolated roadhouses and freeway overpasses where they have been known to lose consciousness while sitting on their bikes. 56 KIWI RIDER