Met at Nelson's after work and we headed up from his, taking the first cul-de-sac and up the steep bastard steppy alleyway to Huntsbury Ave and on up from there. Hot and tiresome work up here, into the gravel and on up, me getting a fucking sore back and having to stop several times to stretch it out. Nasty. Up onto the singletrack, through to the landing strip then up towards the gravel. At the bottom of this, Nelson did the new jump (which he skipped when I did it cos he was on his XCmachine).
On up to the top, and into Vernon. Awkward start to this, but got the roll on lower down towards the end and it was good. Straight across the Rapaki summit and into the Witch, climbing well, cleaning all the rocks where Nelson bolloxed it first time round. On round and on the descent I lost my chain, so had to stop for that. Onto the road for speed, up to Castlerock. Chatted with a couple of guys here before they took off and we rested a little longer. The in we went. Rockships on. Flying down the trail, it's smooth, wide and fast now (til lower down). Good run all the way into the first hairpin, then back the other way, not quite as fast, and then around the next, down and into the climb, where Nelson powered away and I just plodded my way up.
Up the road, climbed up onto the summit walkway and up to the Tors track, Nelson cleaning almost the whole climb. Brief snack with the view...
and then down the Tors, all the good tricksteriness, down onto the singletrack above the road, and good run along this to the fence-corner where we climbed through and climbed to the peak for Mary Duncan.
Into the descent, hard to follow, and super super dry. Ridiculously dry in fact. Found our lines, but some were really hard to see, then, down the ridgey bit towards the rocky knob. Bit of a look for what I thought I could see from the Tors track - nope. And then Nelson did the tricky board drop thing while I took Nana's line, down and the up onto the razorback ridge. Excellent ride down this, one of my smoothest, and lower down the I swear I could smell the grass burning on our brake disks. Dropped on down to the pylon and under, over the gates, and around into the forest. To the left, and dropped into the jumpy droppy track. Checked out some of the new (stupid) lines, and then out the bottom and out the exit track, meeting a couple of (jump building?) young guys riding in.
Final blast around the streets, standing cranking up Centaurus and down and back around to Parklands up to the car (which had been tampered with by Wazzaaaaa).
Finally a proper ride... Over 18 kms, and 820m climbed.
On up to the top, and into Vernon. Awkward start to this, but got the roll on lower down towards the end and it was good. Straight across the Rapaki summit and into the Witch, climbing well, cleaning all the rocks where Nelson bolloxed it first time round. On round and on the descent I lost my chain, so had to stop for that. Onto the road for speed, up to Castlerock. Chatted with a couple of guys here before they took off and we rested a little longer. The in we went. Rockships on. Flying down the trail, it's smooth, wide and fast now (til lower down). Good run all the way into the first hairpin, then back the other way, not quite as fast, and then around the next, down and into the climb, where Nelson powered away and I just plodded my way up.
Up the road, climbed up onto the summit walkway and up to the Tors track, Nelson cleaning almost the whole climb. Brief snack with the view...
and then down the Tors, all the good tricksteriness, down onto the singletrack above the road, and good run along this to the fence-corner where we climbed through and climbed to the peak for Mary Duncan.
Into the descent, hard to follow, and super super dry. Ridiculously dry in fact. Found our lines, but some were really hard to see, then, down the ridgey bit towards the rocky knob. Bit of a look for what I thought I could see from the Tors track - nope. And then Nelson did the tricky board drop thing while I took Nana's line, down and the up onto the razorback ridge. Excellent ride down this, one of my smoothest, and lower down the I swear I could smell the grass burning on our brake disks. Dropped on down to the pylon and under, over the gates, and around into the forest. To the left, and dropped into the jumpy droppy track. Checked out some of the new (stupid) lines, and then out the bottom and out the exit track, meeting a couple of (jump building?) young guys riding in.
Final blast around the streets, standing cranking up Centaurus and down and back around to Parklands up to the car (which had been tampered with by Wazzaaaaa).
Finally a proper ride... Over 18 kms, and 820m climbed.
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