Climby McClimbface. Parked up at my folks place (which will be ours at the end of next year) and checked out the place with T and H.
They'd brought H's bike, so they drove to top of Vic Park while I rode with Jet up the road and up from Skidder through to top. H's rear brakes needs some serious looking at, lever to the bar and barely any response... Usually a bunch of pumping and flicking fixes it up a bit but not tonight. "You're just gonna have to use your front brake more..." "Okay." So, off we went, down into the trees and we swept round to that first jump which I popped nicely, then down to the cattlestop, opening the gate for Jet. Then down Brake Free, and into Sesame St, but peeling left into the gums, all the way down but not my usual lefty (cos the steep would be too hard with his brakes). He did amazingly well, and didn't crash due to brakes once. Bypassed the skidder site on that swoopy through trees, and then down the old (obviously hardly ever used) singletrack to the end of the road. T was at 19th Memorial. H rode from here on the road with her following and I booked back up into the park.
Up next to Sesame St, 2nd climb up here tonight, and I hopped up to BrakeFree just to try out that first Sesame jump again after last week. Way over popped it and flew, actually dabbing the rear brake in the air, then landing with a stopped wheel, miles down the ramp, straight into the next pop, then finally gaining some composure as I flew over the next double... Round the woodwall, and contemplated but didn't commit into the next double, popped off the ! drop and then around and straight back up K2 climbing, up, up, then up Worm and onto the Traverse.
Got riding around here, been a while since last in this direction in particular. It was rush hour, I pulled over quite a few times to let others through. One guy I didn't (he was descending, and had a perfect opportunity to pull into a wee spot, but missed it) and he looked very confused. Meh. Rest of the run was good, and got to the top of Fourpause with four paws intact and had a nice pause here.
Dropped in, fanging, wooah, a little overgrown, making for a bit of edge catching sketchiness. First jump was further down than memory served, nice, then overgrown corners slowed me down into the second one, and the third I popped nicely, landing on the transition. Bombed down through to the final one for a nice leap and landing. Continued on, and MAN was it overgrown. Wading through tire-deep grass, barely able to find the line, and not seeing any rocks under it all. All the way through and down to the gate, over grown long grass as hell. Over the stile and into the first shortcut, not so bad, second, hmmm, rocks??? dropped, into next steep one, better, but everything from here on down was too overgrown to function... not as fun as usual, especially the lower switchbacks which you couldn't even see and had to go really slow.
Decision time. Left, down HiddenValley, or right and down Old Skool for some more descending goodness. Obviously I decided on the latter, and had a smooth and fun blast down here, with a couple of very close calls.
Straight into the climb up the valley, oh the grind, 3rd time in as many weeks, meeting several of those who had passed me on the Traverse, and then after some seat adjustments, up K2, cleaning, again, and on up past 40fter and zig and zag to the Skidder.
Blast down the road, detour around the back of the slide, then into the lower Dog Park and over to the Harry Ell Drive track, but detouring to head all the way down the back of the houses, fast next to the trees, then over the stile and down the (VERY OVERGROWN) Latters Spur track below the houses all the way to the bottom of Longhurst. Finally, climbing again, back up (STEEP) Longhurst, and finally up Amherst to our new house. Phew.
A surprising 15.25 kms with even more surprisingly over 650 m climbed
They'd brought H's bike, so they drove to top of Vic Park while I rode with Jet up the road and up from Skidder through to top. H's rear brakes needs some serious looking at, lever to the bar and barely any response... Usually a bunch of pumping and flicking fixes it up a bit but not tonight. "You're just gonna have to use your front brake more..." "Okay." So, off we went, down into the trees and we swept round to that first jump which I popped nicely, then down to the cattlestop, opening the gate for Jet. Then down Brake Free, and into Sesame St, but peeling left into the gums, all the way down but not my usual lefty (cos the steep would be too hard with his brakes). He did amazingly well, and didn't crash due to brakes once. Bypassed the skidder site on that swoopy through trees, and then down the old (obviously hardly ever used) singletrack to the end of the road. T was at 19th Memorial. H rode from here on the road with her following and I booked back up into the park.
Up next to Sesame St, 2nd climb up here tonight, and I hopped up to BrakeFree just to try out that first Sesame jump again after last week. Way over popped it and flew, actually dabbing the rear brake in the air, then landing with a stopped wheel, miles down the ramp, straight into the next pop, then finally gaining some composure as I flew over the next double... Round the woodwall, and contemplated but didn't commit into the next double, popped off the ! drop and then around and straight back up K2 climbing, up, up, then up Worm and onto the Traverse.
Got riding around here, been a while since last in this direction in particular. It was rush hour, I pulled over quite a few times to let others through. One guy I didn't (he was descending, and had a perfect opportunity to pull into a wee spot, but missed it) and he looked very confused. Meh. Rest of the run was good, and got to the top of Fourpause with four paws intact and had a nice pause here.
Dropped in, fanging, wooah, a little overgrown, making for a bit of edge catching sketchiness. First jump was further down than memory served, nice, then overgrown corners slowed me down into the second one, and the third I popped nicely, landing on the transition. Bombed down through to the final one for a nice leap and landing. Continued on, and MAN was it overgrown. Wading through tire-deep grass, barely able to find the line, and not seeing any rocks under it all. All the way through and down to the gate, over grown long grass as hell. Over the stile and into the first shortcut, not so bad, second, hmmm, rocks??? dropped, into next steep one, better, but everything from here on down was too overgrown to function... not as fun as usual, especially the lower switchbacks which you couldn't even see and had to go really slow.
Decision time. Left, down HiddenValley, or right and down Old Skool for some more descending goodness. Obviously I decided on the latter, and had a smooth and fun blast down here, with a couple of very close calls.
Straight into the climb up the valley, oh the grind, 3rd time in as many weeks, meeting several of those who had passed me on the Traverse, and then after some seat adjustments, up K2, cleaning, again, and on up past 40fter and zig and zag to the Skidder.
Blast down the road, detour around the back of the slide, then into the lower Dog Park and over to the Harry Ell Drive track, but detouring to head all the way down the back of the houses, fast next to the trees, then over the stile and down the (VERY OVERGROWN) Latters Spur track below the houses all the way to the bottom of Longhurst. Finally, climbing again, back up (STEEP) Longhurst, and finally up Amherst to our new house. Phew.
A surprising 15.25 kms with even more surprisingly over 650 m climbed
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