All about the tops tonight. Parked up top of Major Hornbrook, below the usual Parkridge park, riding up through the park then up Clearview, Ridgeview and Upper Major to the non-bathtub entrance to Britten.
Around and up the singletrack, first of many climbs for the night. Around the front and across to the cutting, then up onto the single, hanging a right and dropping down to Cavendish Saddle. Climbed up something I'd never been on before, but it says bikes are allowed now, so gave it a look. Too steep, so some walking, til the higher gate, and then it's quite good. Around under the Gondola building, slightly lower than usual, with nice views out to the harbour, then into the usual steppy rocky descent down. Took a couple of different lines this time, which bogged me up a bit, but got to the Bridle Path eventually.
Across, and up the walking track, climbing climbing, cleaning to further than usual. Walked a bit, rode a bit, walked some more, before finally riding nicely to the ridge. Around and fun fast descent, feeling pretty good on the bike. into the climb, and climbing higher than the past, but still having to walk a bit Nelson's cleaned several times, up around and then right through the Tors track, dropping down and having a blast. Same dab as last time, and then back up the road to Castle. As I rode up here I could see a guy carrying his bike along the Castle Rock ridge. Back and forth he went, checking his phone whenever he came back. Then I saw the drone. So, he's making some fake-arse footage of him epic'ly carrying his bike across the ridge??? Fake news!
Dropped into Castle and blasted. Absolutely blazed it. Smooth, flowy, awesome. Around and up, climb feeling good last drop to road and around. Nice cruise under the gondola and up. Back into Cavendish Saddle and climbing up the back of Mt Pleasant. Cleaning all and still feeling good, all the way to the top. Did some yoga stretches here, pigeon for both legs, and some spinal twists...
Droppin' in, through the gate, over the stile, and flying, southerly wind pushing me a long down through the tussocks, line nice and clear, fast, raily. Excellent bomb. Taking it a little easy to the end, not really pedalling, then dropping down to Greenwood middle entrance here. Short rest, ate the rest of my OSM and then hit Greenwood down. Again, smooth and flowy, fast and furious. Blasted down, lower back not getting sore at all. Didnt even need a rest after Gloomy, just bombed on through, dropping down the rocks and flowing through the rest of the jumps and berms, all the way down.
Onto the road and climbing, long slog. Getting a bit warm, delayered on the way up here. At the pines, thought I wouldn't be a mountainbiker if I didn't get onto the trail, so over the stile and climbing. Then short road, fill up bottle, and into the Britten.
Flying down through sheep and then across the front, same as last time. Checked out further over onto some rocks. Definitely scope for lines to wend down to the trail from there, but turned back up onto the regular final drops and rocketted down through this, over the fence, and on down to the car, nice big jump just before the road.
Convoluted ups and downs of a 20 kms, with 900m climbed - similar scale to last week. A lot for a weeknight.
Around and up the singletrack, first of many climbs for the night. Around the front and across to the cutting, then up onto the single, hanging a right and dropping down to Cavendish Saddle. Climbed up something I'd never been on before, but it says bikes are allowed now, so gave it a look. Too steep, so some walking, til the higher gate, and then it's quite good. Around under the Gondola building, slightly lower than usual, with nice views out to the harbour, then into the usual steppy rocky descent down. Took a couple of different lines this time, which bogged me up a bit, but got to the Bridle Path eventually.
Across, and up the walking track, climbing climbing, cleaning to further than usual. Walked a bit, rode a bit, walked some more, before finally riding nicely to the ridge. Around and fun fast descent, feeling pretty good on the bike. into the climb, and climbing higher than the past, but still having to walk a bit Nelson's cleaned several times, up around and then right through the Tors track, dropping down and having a blast. Same dab as last time, and then back up the road to Castle. As I rode up here I could see a guy carrying his bike along the Castle Rock ridge. Back and forth he went, checking his phone whenever he came back. Then I saw the drone. So, he's making some fake-arse footage of him epic'ly carrying his bike across the ridge??? Fake news!
Dropped into Castle and blasted. Absolutely blazed it. Smooth, flowy, awesome. Around and up, climb feeling good last drop to road and around. Nice cruise under the gondola and up. Back into Cavendish Saddle and climbing up the back of Mt Pleasant. Cleaning all and still feeling good, all the way to the top. Did some yoga stretches here, pigeon for both legs, and some spinal twists...
Droppin' in, through the gate, over the stile, and flying, southerly wind pushing me a long down through the tussocks, line nice and clear, fast, raily. Excellent bomb. Taking it a little easy to the end, not really pedalling, then dropping down to Greenwood middle entrance here. Short rest, ate the rest of my OSM and then hit Greenwood down. Again, smooth and flowy, fast and furious. Blasted down, lower back not getting sore at all. Didnt even need a rest after Gloomy, just bombed on through, dropping down the rocks and flowing through the rest of the jumps and berms, all the way down.
Onto the road and climbing, long slog. Getting a bit warm, delayered on the way up here. At the pines, thought I wouldn't be a mountainbiker if I didn't get onto the trail, so over the stile and climbing. Then short road, fill up bottle, and into the Britten.
Flying down through sheep and then across the front, same as last time. Checked out further over onto some rocks. Definitely scope for lines to wend down to the trail from there, but turned back up onto the regular final drops and rocketted down through this, over the fence, and on down to the car, nice big jump just before the road.
Convoluted ups and downs of a 20 kms, with 900m climbed - similar scale to last week. A lot for a weeknight.
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