So after the little incident with Monichum he was ready to ride the next morning, and we had group ride planned with some other people we just weren’t sure how big the group was going to be.

It was supposed to be a ride to Abdilli, then lunch their and back. Me and my friend had other plans but we wanted to enjoy the ride so we decided to join them, but we would had back at the first stop point.

We filled up with Gas at the Miseela gas station, and then headed towards the Bida’a starbucks and as we were riding in we noticed the large number of motorcycles their. It turned out to be over 30 motorcycles parked and ready to go.

What surprised me was seeing two other 1098 motorcycles at the meet, I was the only 1098S but its fantastic seeing other Ducatis on the road, but one of them was a yellow one and it looked extremely nice. There was also a Ducati 998R and another Ducati Supersport, and Ducati Monster 695, so for a non-Ducati event their were quite a few Ducatis. And there were quite a few MV Agustas which are very beautiful machines. One motorcycle I wasn’t expecting that did show up was the KTM Superduke which is a fantastic motorcycle, I told the owner that he made a great choice with this motorcycle. Just a great number of motorcycles, it was like a candy store of motorcycles.

We started riding around 9:30 am, we took the Gulf Road until Shuweikh and then took the inside roads from their to head towards Doha, the ride was really fun and it was great keeping line. I prefer to stay in the back so that I can spot the nut cases in the group early on and avoid them, and I managed to find them very quickly. We were really enjoying ourselves, and it got colder as we rode, dropping to about 10C.

When we got to the last stop before making the destination which was a Burger King we stopped for a quick break, and we were all talking. Then we decided to head off and head back, on the ride to the Abdilli we got a light drizzle so we knew rain was on the way.

When we started heading back we were three motorcycles, two Ducatis and one BMW, the BMW rider is a guy I met before and he is really a nice guy and a good rider so we were taking our pace as we were riding back. We got onto the 6th Ring Road and cruised at 150 kph the whole way back, and then it really started raining on us while riding. The rain got more intense as we got close to the our destination, but it just felt really comforting and odd at the same time. When you get comfortable in your skin in this type of weather, something just clicks inside of you. Throughout the ride the temperature dropped to 8C so were freezing the whole ride and by the time we got home, then we managed to relax over a cup of tea and some Halo 3.