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Massive Northern Beaches Ride - TIME!! : Sat 14th April 8:00 a.m.
Greetings!
One ride I have always wanted to do is connect all of the main Northern Beaches trails together to form a massive link - and ride them all in one day. It would be MASSIVE! The ride would go something like:
- Park at Narrabeen Lake
- Do a Narrabeen Lake lap
- Deep Creek trail
- Oxford Falls (east side)
- Red Hill (if we can fit this in somehow - possibly through the Institute of Sport?)
- Oxford Falls (west side)
- Terrey Hills (Perimeter Trail and Long Trail)
- Then backtrack all the way back to the cars at Narrabeen Lake
The order I have set these up may be wrong (I haven't done this before!), but I am sure you get the gist of it. I may defer to someone else on this that has linked these rides up before. So what would this ride take, about 4 to 5 hours? 60km? Easy!! 
Remember, it would be more downhill than up on the way back!
More LED Talk
Well here we go again.
Daylight savings won't be around much longer so I'm thinking I will need to make up some lights soon to join you all on the night rides.
So I've been looking at putting some LED lights together. I'm sure I've got Rob's attention now
I was thinking of going a more simple route than Rob's setup. I was thinking just 2x 3W halogen replacement LED bulbs. Like this:
http://www.ledshoponline.com/high_power_mr16_led...
For power my friend has some old laptop batteries lying around. They are 3.7V 2000mah cells. And since he's a remote control helicopter flyer he's got all the charging gear for the lithium cells already. 3-4 cells in series should provide plenty of power for a fair few hours.
Endura Optimizer
As promised, quick review as it were of this Optimizer (sic) drink. Yes, even though it's apparently made in Aus, the manufacturers insist on the dumb ass US spelling.
Anyhow, so I chugged down the chocolate flavour for breakie on Saturday morning, before the 42Km ride we did.
First off, this wasn't easy to stomach. Tasted a tiny bit like Milo (yes, tiny, tiny bit) even though there's no milk involved (you mix with water). However, there was a rather nasty aftertaste. Can't quiet put my finger on it... maybe a bit like yeast... perhaps a bit like stale beer even (yeah - that went down well after Friday night's slight excess!).
The ol' gettin' chased by dogs on the bike...
I went for a ride today, exploring this new industrial area they've put up near my place. I was riding down this new road which turned into a dirt track. So I thought I'd have a bit of an explore. This dirt track goes for about 500 metres, eventually leading to a farm's driveway ie a dead end. So I stopped for a sec, caught my breath before turning around to head back the way I came. Next thing, I look up to see these two massive dogs tearing down towards the road from this bloke's farm house. I hop straight on the bike and start sprinting hard down the road, while one of the dogs has jumped the fence! Anyway, the dog chased me for about 500 metres, almost grabbing my foot a few times.
Re: Narrabeen Lake circuit - How about an arvo run?
If you can fit this in an arvo at about 4pm then I'll be up for a few laps. I can't do tomorrow arvo though, but any other one is fine.
Sydney 24hr - 31st March/1st April
hi all, just wondering who has entered into the sydney 24hr. I am entered in a team of 4, i think we will be quite slow as 2 of our team members are lucky to ride a few times a month and fitness is not one of there strong points, so our team could turn into 2 by the time night hits. Anyway we are in it for a bit of fun, a hopefully good track and to just generally have a good time. Our main goal will be to finish and to not come last in our category. I will be heading there friday morning to setup camp and to run a few test laps. If anyone wants to meet up over the weekend for a chat and hello, give me a yell
Night ride this week (Wed 14th - 7:30pm)
Right, getting in early this week. I'm keen for a Wednesday night ride at Manly Dam as a bit of a break from the norm. Tentatively 7.30pm at the Hydraulics thingo. Takers?
Matt.
18th March - team partner for the races?
I'm gonna do the 8 hour in Darks Forest - SOLO. ( http://www.brightorangeevents.com.au/BOE_WWS_Mai... )
If anyone wants to HELP ME...I would do it in a team as well. Give me a call or drop me a line, anmd we'll work it out.
Would be cool 
cya,
Flo
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