You are hereFlynny's blog
Flynny's blog
CTMBC all in Goup challenge
This was the DH vs XC "all in group challenge."
It involved an individual time trial along a section of the XC track at Lidsdale
with a bonus points hill climb back up the same track afterwards.
It gave the XCers a taste of DH style sprinting against the clock
without the scary bits and the DHers a taste of XC style getting
around slow corners and pedalling without the scary bits...
Big props to all the DH kids that gave the hill climb a crack on their DH bikes
--
Flynny
top night for a ride
Well sure the wind was strong enough to blow a dog off it's chain but still a great night for a ride if you could find shelter from the wind.
And a couple of my old favs were on the hit list.
First up a gentle cruise up Hassans Walls before linking up the Ewok and Townhouses trails.
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6128778
And then, feeling energised it was back up for a run down Ch6
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6133380
Even a little chopped up by motos and with the occasional branch across the track it's still grin factor +10
Coach rd again
Coach rd was spectacular today
http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/activity/6108190
We made good time with a group of 7.
two mechanicals as Phil's shock sprung a leak before we even started. A quick pit stop at insane to swap it for a shock I had spare... 5 km he managed to kill that on too. So he went home swapped bikes and caught back up to us at the second wash out.
The State MX titles were on at Clarence so a few more Motos up on top than usual but once past the Bungleborrie we had left them behind.
Narrowneck Peninsular
It was misty and cool
not stormy and dark
As we nervously met
in old car space.
There was Mark and Peter on the giants
but for me GT made sense
Darren and Joel on Santa Cruz
and Meggs on his Tracer
Over the gate
and away we went
Through fog and light rain
that didn't let up
The trail was fast and fun
but then something went bump!
how that bump made us
sail through the air.
Up a small hill
we regroup at the top
then down the other side
so steep it was hard to slow down
What followed was more
of the same
with water bars so big
Alternative Enduor track loop
They emerged from the darkness under the big sky of the Newnes Plateau. The milky way blazing in the crisp clear Autumn air.
Godlings on demon steeds. The 4 winds of time. They met on the plateau in a place know to some as Bungleborri camp, some as Nine Mile Cabin and yet others as Forestry Hut, the whatever cabin or hut had once stood there had long ago been eaten but the march of time.
Enduro Track
It's been ages since I've ridden the the Enduro loop[1] so, being a beaut morning I decided to skive off work and go for a ride. I couldn't be bother contending with the coldness of the creek so opted to ride up the road[2] rather than the short cut up waterworks gully. This was fairly boring, I didn't even have any truck try and squish me as I plodded up Scenic Hill.
Finally I got the the Zig Zag car park and headed on to the dirt of Newnes Forest Rd. A bit more pedaling brought me to a bit of single track that I thought was a short cut to the start of the run down to the MotoX track...
Beter Than....
A glorious night for a ride saw 6 of us meet at the bottom of Bergoffers Pass. Just don't fall to the left, was the advice given to the night riding newbie. Strange as it seems the view in the dark seems even bigger as you look on on the tiny house lights in the distance.
From there we cruised on up to the top, took a left into the ST leading Lockyers line of Road. Some little pinches before turning on to Lockyers with the now firm water bars and winding single trail. Absolute majic!