What a day!
My business partner decided I should have a day off today, so I thought it would be a good chance to break in the new car. We also wanted to check out a property in the Otways, and as roads like the famous Forest-Apollo Bay Road and Deans Marsh-Lorne Road are the natural habitat.....
The HORROR!!
New Speed Limit on the Forest-Apollo Bay Road - 80 kph!! Talk about Nanny-State stuff. Sure, we loose the odd biker with more HP than skill, but now the rest of us are restricted to a dawdle. (Probably a bit harsh, these roads can be treacherous, particularly the rivers that flow over them this time of year, I did have the traction control even in sport mode lend a hand at one point! :)
Once you get into the properly windy stuff though, it's not a problem as the limit is tough to break anyway. Checked out the property and decided to go home via lunch at Lorne, and take the Deans Marsh-Lorne Road back. I held a faint hope.....but no, same deal, 80 kph limit. But as this road only has about 10 km of tight stuff, again not too bad. But I'll miss the days of not having to watch the speedo so closely.
The weather was picture perfect, blue skies, blue ocean, great lunch and a great car to drive - they really got the handling package sorted out of the box (for road level enjoyment, I can see the tuners going nuts tightening it further). But it maintains its poise when thown about, a real gem of a machine.
Gotta go to work tomorrow, bummer!
