Awesome long ride with Nelsie tonight. Chucked my bike on his roof rack at his place and we headed for Slumnervale, parking around the corner from usual at the cul-de-sac we've been riding out the last couple times. I'd had a busy day followed by a snoozy hour before leaving home and unfortunately too much sugary chocolate and a bowl of chippies, so was feeling a tad pre-diabetic
Steep up the steep, but into the groove once on the 'level,' clambering around and needing a good rest at the seat where the trail comes up from the valley. Riding again, usual steps through the rocky stuff, and riding out the top no problem, only meeting one guy on an electric dirtbike (naughty!) on his way down.
Onto the road around out towards Scarborough top to ride up farmtrack to Godley, for a blast of a blast down towards Livingston. Smooth and flowy, bike feeling reeeaally good. Through the col and up around, Nelson bollocksing some rock feature. I continued on, assuming he wasn't far behind and as I rounded the furthest hairpin realised he wasn't there. Over pfmtbc rock and down rutsville to the road and waited. He turned up eventually saying he ended up doing a couple of goes at the same feature.
Up the road a little ways and dropped into Anaconda from the top. Excellent blast down this, flowy flowy again, feeling the drift-into-catch on the corners, almost all the way down. Tidied up once into the Tail and nice blast down and straight into the up-valley climb out on the Escape. Drawn out affair this, with the gulch in the bottom the hardest most painful part. Good once further up. There was a guy ahead on the hairpins at the end of the valley so Nelson started chasing, gapping me completely. He ended up taking him at the top of the last hairpin over Taylors, and I was juuust about catching him before the final final hairping, but not quite.
Back up the road from Livingston and then up onto Godley again via the farm track, this tiem turning right to hit back to Evans. Nice fast blitzy blast all the way back. Tech rocks. Bike handling wonderfully.
Finally, into the Captain for a glorious descent. Primo conditions and feeling really good now, finally on the down. Speed and flow were our closest companions. Very good for us.
Couple and a half hours, 20kms and nearly 800m climbed. All good
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