D you know how it feels?

Do you know what it feels like pushing those tyres? 

Feeling them grip and slip.

Do you understand the sense of the end being just around the next bend?

Do you know how it feels?

Do you know what it’s like to ride that engine?

Drunk on the sound of the pipe as you feel it come onto the cam.

Are you aware of that consciousness?

Have you ever been there?

The brutal honesty of the moment.

To see the tree on the bend that might be the one.

You give it a hundredth of a second of thought and move on.

Leaving death behind this time.

Changing up.

Finding the line.

Holding it on the power.

Nothing else in your mind.

Just the road and a song.

There’s always a song.

Today it was The Charlatans.

“The Blind Stagger”.