Where: Jamieson Park, Narrabeen.
When: 7:00am start, Tuesday mornings
What: Loop ride, more or less following the water's edge, approx 1 hour.
Out-and-back singletrack option at Deep Creek, adds about another half hour.

Terrain:
Main circuit: mostly flat hardpack, some road along the Parkway. Bring the cyclocross bike if you're into that sort of thing.
Deep Creek singletrack: some hardpack, some loose soil. Tight and twisty, a few ramps over fallen trees - the way singletrack should be.

Nothing that could be called a hill either - it's pretty flat for the entire ride.

Hi everyone!

I am visiting in Sydney for a while and I have been deprived of mountain biking for a few weeks. I realy want to make up for lost time.
Anyone for a ride on Saturday or Sunday (10-11/3) anywhere @ the north beaches???

dyego
0405926945

Hello,
Would any of you know of a group like NobMob who organise friendly road riding? I have a couple of friends who want to take it up and have asked me where to go - I know nothing about it... one knows what he is doing and the other is a newbie - they both live on the Northern Beaches...
Thank you!

MEEE

Hi All,

I am considering the Garmin Edge 305 as the main use is for the bike and I like motionbased.com, google mapping etc

Wondering how suitable this device is or what alternatives there are for other uses:

Running?
Sailing? or sync to laptop for coastal/inshore navigation etc
Basemap with display?

Is there a device that does it all?

Cheers Daz.

i know this is a while away but thought i would get in early. The dirtworks 100 will be on a few weeks after this date so thought it may be a good time to check the area out. I have never been there before so would be good to have someone come along who has been before or someone with a decent map. I propose starting at wisemans then crossing the ferry, turn left and into the great northern rd this way, then do a loop which will maybe equal 60-70kms, i think there is a loop that goes near wrights creek ( i think i read somewhere) and comes back via st albans. I am guessing though so if anybody can help out with a proposed route that would be great. This will be a cruisy ride mainly to check the trails out and there condition, start maybe 8am, back to car by 4pm at latest. What do you think?

Were any of you guys riding The Dam late yesterday afternoon a blue Kona Stinky?

Around the same time as a guy on green Giant downhill?

If that was you, cool ride

Hi guys,

Firstly, a big hello to everybody on this forum!

Ok, here's the scope. Been in Manly about four hours (been drinking and my head hurts!), spent 24 hours flying over here, and led to believe that I'd be able to roll out of my front door and hit some trails. Since found out this is not the case. I don't drive and all I've got in my arsenal is a seven inch freeride bike. I'll ride most things jump or downhill related, and have been known to pedal occasionally. So if anybody knows of anything I can keep myself busy with whilst I'm here (six weeks in total) I'll be much more than appreciative.

For those who are interested, a tribe of us has returned form a successful venture to the Port 12 hr enduro. What an amazing event, we definetly have some goals to achieve now. An absolutley perfect track with everything in it. 8+ ks long but realistically rideable by any standard. We will be planning a day trip sometime in the future, will keep you posted on that one. Results are up at http://12hr.hvmtbr.com/

The 4 boys from Rainbow Cycles did a four man team and smashed it. If they didn't break a chain, which reflected in their lap 9 split time of 36+ minutes, they would have won their division. Rowan from Bob Wallis had some painfull night issues but after a nice 2hr+ nap, woke up firing and raced solidly to finish high in the solo placing's of 8th overall. Terry Bernut from Corindi, had a great start before snapping a hanger and unfortunately couldn't find a spare anywhere. My brother, Michael Hawke, started his second ever race in the solo division on a loan bike which he had never ridden before and rode in hiking boots before he hit the pre-dawn wall and like Rowan had a nice little sleep. Like Rowan he awoke with flair and gusto and punched out some nice laps. He tired around smoko and decided to share his bike with Terry so they could both post a finish time and enjoy the awesome track.

Just following up from here...

My profile for last year's Dirtworks is here:

http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/episode/730947

The HR graph tells the story... during the first few hours was able to keep the HR up and was doing OK-ish. Towards the end (the last 40%?) though, it dips quiet a lot. Notice I had a sprint finish, oh, the legs loved that

Anyhow - I was eating from the off. Powerbars (think I had 3 or 4), peanut butter & honey sangers (2 rounds) & Gu. Think I only had a 2 or 3 Gu.

Given a Powerbar is 236cal, Gu less than half of that, that's only 1416cal plus the sangers at best estimate (plus whatever energy was in 3-4 scoops of Enduro - 90cal each). Clearly this was woefully inadequate.

Hi Everyone,

A few of us are going to do the Oaks trail (Yes I heard you groan Liam) This time it will be with a twist. Don has agreed to lead us on the ride with his GPS to set the pace.

We aim to start at the top of the track at the gate at Woodford and finish at the top of the hill at the entrance to the park (Don? was that the end point we decided on?) after the weir at the bottom of the stairs in 1 hour 23min.

In order to keep it simple and fun. Don will set the pace and we (most likely me) will play the sweeper at the back of the back. It will be this person's duty not to leave anyone behind and to help if they have an equipment failure or just ride back with them.

Hmmmm... yesterday was hard. Hot and humid and only 33Ks in around 3 hours of riding. Although it had over 1000m of vertical I was disappointed at how tired I was feeling.

Time to get serious about doing some distance for the DW!

Where: Ryland Meeting point, Mona Vale Road (there's a dirt area with plenty of parking).
When: Saturday 10 March. 7:30am (I know some will want earlier, and some later so this is nice compromise).
What: Bit of distance and climbing (there will be some nasty hills) training: