On Locked-down Saturday, needling Gogo to get out for some stretching of legs, I convinced him to go for an E ride. We headed up Vic Park, easy cruising compared to my usual huff and chuff, after the toilets, below the infocentre we were rounding down through the corner on the smooth seal and a dad came flying around the corner, cutting it, then followed his daughter TOTALLY cutting it, right when we were apexing! Holy shit it was close, I screamed "IN COMING!!! For FUCK'S Sake!" we all skidded, somehow missing any contact (I was envisaging total carnage of my front rack ploughing into her forks and mangling, us colliding and hitting the pavement), and continued on. She was pretty shaken I'm sure, looking back she took a second or three to regain composure and get riding again. Hopefully learned a lesson - just cos there's no cars on the road (gates shut at each end) there ARE other users around!
Around and into the Skidder site, carrying speed as best as possible into here, I managed to climb higher than last time we came up this way, but still couldn't keep power or traction to get much higher. Walking, pushing heavy e bike til it levelled off a little and I got riding again, breathing much harder now. H managed to carry his tall gear all the way up, no problem at all. Up through the Brakefree zone, SO many people around. We were witnessing, I think, much breaching of lockdown rules, with obviously-not-the-same-bubble kids hanging out with each other. We tootled around and straight into Thompson's number one, techy (on this bike) down across the hill. H got mud in the eye, then we rounded out onto the road and bombed it to the Kiwi. Again, here, tonnes of people, including a group of teenage boys with road bikes all perched over the side of the road hanging out, breaching bubbles, little shits.
Summit Rd was good, tail wind, chilly easterly, pushing us along on our (already) tail-wind machines. Nice cruise around to the Bellbird where we stopped and took in the sights then turned back. Hellishly cold head wind from Kennedy's, having to actually push into it down hill, ice-cream headache forming, ugh! Same down past worsley's and into Kiwi (teen roady breachers still in full effect), finally out of the worst of the wind climbing up to top of Vic again. Dropped in and down to Rabbit paddock, more teen this time mountainbiker breachers, hello to Mel and son, and on down, having to hold back down the 4wd due to walkers, finally letting go the brakes past them and rushing down into the Skidder. Out to the road, and bombsville home.
Just over 15 assisted kms, with 471 m of easy altitude. A nice cruise with nice views on a nice day.
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