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check your backpack!
in frustration of not being able to find a set of magura brake pads for the enduro, i decided to have a good clean out of all the pockets of my camelback. the one in question is a mule so it has a fair few pockets and compartments within the pockets. within two minutes i'd emptied various zip lock bags and pulled out many sticky gu and powerbar wrappers. low and behold i had a massive amount of folded bank notes and about half a kilo of gold and silver coins. the total....$111.90 BINGO!!! enough to buy a couple of sets of pads and enough change for some refreshing alcoholic beverages!

Yellowmundee pre-race ride
The meeting times are 'ready to ride'. If you need time to prepare equipment then please arrive a few minutes earlier.
There's a car park (click for foggy picture) on Springwood Road - just down the way from Hawkesbury Heights if you're looking for a suburb name.
In preparation for the 12 hour next weekend, I'm going out to yellowmundee to do a few laps to get re-familiarised with the circuit.
The general idea is to do a couple of laps at at a steady pace (like 70% of race pace), perhaps pause and look at lines and re-do a few corners / techie bits and get the general feel. It might involve a few spurts upping the pace now and again as we get into the flow, but generally steady.

Lane Cove National Park update for 01 Aug
Fire Trails around Browns Waterhole are very very wet up to whale rock
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Tour d'Afrique
Tempting
Welcome to the 8th annual Tour d'Afrique, an 11,800 km (7,375 mile) bicycle race/expedition across the world's most exotic and alluring continent. The Cairo to Cape Town route will challenge you physically and mentally like no other - and reward you as you have never been rewarded before, with scenes of unsurpassed splendor and an incomparable feeling of accomplishment
More here: http://www.tourdafrique.com/epictours/tourdafriq...

You're going for a ride on Saturday morning. When do you clean your bike?

Red Hill update for 31 Jul
Not much has changed from the previous entries. Still extremely wet on the main trails and plenty of sandy bogs from the motos. I would say the main link trails are borderline red / yellow, there is n
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Proposed trail network/extension for Narrabeen Lagoon
I ride this with my kids. As I'm only new to this site and the sport, don't know if there's any oppurtunity for some input from the Mountain Biking fraternity, anyway, check it out;
Toddy

Vandalism: ban all drivers!
Re the NPWS pathetic response to removal of the "no access" barriers at Oxford Falls I noticed this article (and an editorial) in Today's The Manly Daily and cannot resist the urge to say here what the NPWS would undoubtedly already be advising the Police:
Ban all drivers from all roads in NSW. Now!

Irate inturn ticket up for grabs
Due to medical issuses I have an Irate Inturn (50km) ticket available.
PM me if anybody is interested.