Missed any riding opportunities in the weekend so took off for a quick jaunt as soon as I got home from work.
Headed up the road into Vic Park, dropping down the wee access track towards Harry Ell that I usually ride up from the 235, taking this in reverse for the first time. Mucky as hell under the oaks, and blew the steepest corner but climbed out the rest, surprised at how quick/short it was. Up the road to 19th divert around the top and over to the skidder site, straight into the gutsy climb. Up across Brakefree and up through the pines to the top of Vic.
Downhill mode engaged, dropped around and down, over the jumps, past the see-saw and down the Rabbit Paddock into the rockgarden entry of Gums, bombing around, shortcutting down a line that hasn't seen much action, back around and down my lefty fun blast down and out, across to the skidder, and dropped into Dazza's (rather than Shazza's) for a change. Not nearly as 'dangerous' as I thought it was, popped all the drops no problem at all and took a rather rooty line down and out to the 40footer.
Brief look down at the first jump on Rad^Sick and thought, "yeah, could probably do that no probs," but not tonight, and rode on up, climbing climbing climbing out to skidder, dropping back over to where I'd come out of the gums, dropping down out to the road, then below the road and walking tracking it back up to the corner avoiding Tawhairanui (likely mucky af), down the road, into 235 dropping down nicely, careful across the greasy oak leaves, and up to the road for the final bomb down the seal, cleaning the tires centripetally.
Nice wee 5.6 kms, with a smidgen under 200m climbed.
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