Drove to Nelson's after work and parked up, then we hooned in his car, with Fatty and skinny bikes onboard, to Taylor's Mistake. Got riding, straight into the grunt, up the Tail, pausing at the cattlestop to chat to a friend of mine (Fiona) running her dog, then on out the Boulder Bay track. A couple of photo ops along here,
Then it was out to the carpark to watch a massive posse of riders bombing down the hill and onto the trail below the road back to Anaconda. Nelson and me climbed up the hill and around onto the Breeze Bay track. Fun times around this and as we got to the stile the big posse were heading off down Anaconda (not very fast, we thought). Next, we took the skinny fun trail above the road around, stopping to enjoy the view for a bit just before that weird half buried shed, then onwards around and instead of down the 4wd track we went a little bit further towards Breeze Bay track again and headed down the walking track back to the car park, along the fence, and over the road onto the original Godley section below the road. The climb from the bridge slowed me up and Nelson got a big lead on me. I had a nice run around until the last slight climb to Breeze Col. Ugh.
Finally, into the 'Conda. Good blast around here, and it was surprisingly dry considering the rain we'd got over night and this morning. A total beat up on the Fatty, rocky sections pounding through my arms, and a bit of a battle with the steering in some of the narrower slightly rutted sections. Out the bottom and onto the tail, this REALLY beat me up, with all its pesky rocks I'd normally just flow over on the full-suss. Oh well. Got to the bottom and felt like I'd had a ride, for sure.
A good 13 kms, with just over 500m climbed... Nice.
Scar, bro.
and then took a singletrack down into Boulder Bay, slightly more interesting than the highway, but ending in overly tech rocks before dropping into the macracarpas behind the houses. Steep climb out of here, back onto the main track, then the usual climb up the zigs and zags, round to the full-arsed moon hanging out just above the horizon. Parked up at the gun emplacements and took a couple pics,
MooonZooom
then rolled on up to the the end. Over the top and down the other side, zig and zag and zig and zag, then up the steps and climbing again back up to the old buildings. Phone call and more pics from in here.
Arty farty had a party...
Then it was out to the carpark to watch a massive posse of riders bombing down the hill and onto the trail below the road back to Anaconda. Nelson and me climbed up the hill and around onto the Breeze Bay track. Fun times around this and as we got to the stile the big posse were heading off down Anaconda (not very fast, we thought). Next, we took the skinny fun trail above the road around, stopping to enjoy the view for a bit just before that weird half buried shed, then onwards around and instead of down the 4wd track we went a little bit further towards Breeze Bay track again and headed down the walking track back to the car park, along the fence, and over the road onto the original Godley section below the road. The climb from the bridge slowed me up and Nelson got a big lead on me. I had a nice run around until the last slight climb to Breeze Col. Ugh.
Finally, into the 'Conda. Good blast around here, and it was surprisingly dry considering the rain we'd got over night and this morning. A total beat up on the Fatty, rocky sections pounding through my arms, and a bit of a battle with the steering in some of the narrower slightly rutted sections. Out the bottom and onto the tail, this REALLY beat me up, with all its pesky rocks I'd normally just flow over on the full-suss. Oh well. Got to the bottom and felt like I'd had a ride, for sure.
A good 13 kms, with just over 500m climbed... Nice.
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