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Perimeter and Long status?
Hi - has anybody ridden P & L this week - would like to know what the track conditions are like?
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I rode it on Monday afternoon.
It was wet and dirty
(and I was on the single speed so not fussed about the dirt!)
Long and the second half of Perimeter weren't too bad, but the section behind the houses was very wet.
I'm tempted to get out there again today if I can get my work finished off this morning. (However I could easily be distracted by a pub lunch instead...)
Cheers
Thanks Loki - may plan a road ride for today instead. Weve had even more rain showers since then so may leave it to dry out a bit.
Taking some newbies out for a ride on Sunday out to Terrey Hills so hoping it's reasonably dry out there....
Suggest you start from the Japanese School end, end of Echunga Road, TH, to avoid the soggy bits...
...apart from that it's manageable...
In fact, it's beautiful out there....
Wonderful season of early mists and mellow fruitfulness!
Close bossom-friend of the just-rising sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With blooms the wattles that round the downhill run;
To bend with gum nuts the mossed eucalypt trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the chest, and plump the new tyre
With a sweet Hope-hum; to set for budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think cold rainy days will never cease,
For Autumn has finally o'erbrimmed their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid this track?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find;
the funnest things are close to home;
Drowsed with the fume of eucalypts, while thy hook
Spares the next track and all its newly twined webs
And sometimes like a river meander the trail,
shaded by the low hanging branches (watch out!)
Where are the songs of Winter now? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music on the Ipod too, -
While barred clouds bloom the soft-starting day
And touch the old man banksia with rosy hue;
Among the creek sallows below, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown horses loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Cicadas sing, and now with treble soft
The magpie calls from a mighty loft;
And gathering honey eaters twitter in the skies....
Sounds a bit like the mushrooms are out too...
Going to be dry and windy tomorrow so that ought to blow off a fair bit of moisture and I heard that Sunday is going to be a cracker! Hope we get similar weather for The Mont next weekend. But let's not talk about Canberra weather just yet.
Sounds like Hans will be flying all weekend.