Bloody good one tonight. I popped down at 5ish and picked Nelson up from Bowenvale Ave, leaving his car there, and we rode up into Vic from mine. Up thru the usual combo of: road, 19th, Skidder, gutser to the top. Spotted a FLOCK of kereru from up here, flying past. Musta been about 12-15 of them. Amazing!. Then dropped into both Thompsons for the funtimes they always provide (walkers leaping out of the way etc).
From Kiwi up the Scummit to the upper Governor's bay trail entrance for a good blast down. I was taking it a bit cautiously, not sure why. Wasn't feeling on my game at this point. Hit this all the way around above the dude's stone house then down the zigs and zags, progressively tighter and now flowing through very nice bushy tunnels. Across the dude's driveway and stopped in the gums for a moment, then hit downhill trail, which was cool and had been a long time (over 4 years). It was tinder dry. Stopped at Reuters Park (halfway down, trail heading around above Gov's to the right), spotted some blackberries, then more, then more. 
Had a good gorge on them. Then knucked in for the rest. Across, then dropping down through the valley, cleaning all, nice and dry (wet in the past) followed by a couple of tight wee climbs, before sidling around a little more and dropping into the switchies to the finish. This time (unlike the last two (only) times) we headed up up the road. Thankfully hardly any traffic. Bit of a grind but a hell of a lot less taxing than riding (and walking) up the singletrack. From the Kiwi, up the road to the top of Vic.
Had a good gorge on them. Then knucked in for the rest. Across, then dropping down through the valley, cleaning all, nice and dry (wet in the past) followed by a couple of tight wee climbs, before sidling around a little more and dropping into the switchies to the finish. This time (unlike the last two (only) times) we headed up up the road. Thankfully hardly any traffic. Bit of a grind but a hell of a lot less taxing than riding (and walking) up the singletrack. From the Kiwi, up the road to the top of Vic.
Down here, around over the two jumps, see-saw, Brakefree, and onto Sesame St. I baulked and rode nanna line into it, but had fun on the rest. Through the skidder, lots of people here, and into Razza's which was fun as hell, steep and dry and loose. Into Rad, I should have, but didn't jump the jump in here (gotta session it some time), then across into Sneaky Ridge for a rock filled gravity propelled gnar-fest down and around. Nelson dropped me by taking the No Road Bikes section. Jump of the fence and then down through nuBridges, bombing down the valley and straight into Hidden Valley Climb. Hot work. Around and we stopped at the high point for Old Skool. Some blokes turned up, they rested so we took off. Gooooood blast down here, but starting to feel tired. Then I heard a rim-strike and after that was paranoid my rear tyre was going down and getting washy so was kinda nursing it down. At the bottom I discovered this was not so, and we cruised effortlessly down the road to Nelson's car.
A superlative 527m climbed (740ish descended on account of starting high), with 14.8km roamed.
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