On the tail end of a bad cold, had a choice spin up the locals tonight with Nelson.
Up the usual route, over 19th, skidder, gutser and up onto the Thompsons one and two. Through Kiwi and up Summit, pulling onto the walking track (to avoid the BoyRacer action (lots out last night hooning)) from where the Nun meets the road. Good climb up here, cleaning lots of steep and stepping up the odd bit. Up Worsley's Rd to top then along the access trail to the Nun. I dropped in first and missed the first peel off but got the old one and the big rock wall corner that I slipped on last time, cleaned out but lost a bit of speed through caution, which I soon made up for. The new bike handles it all so nicely and on the faster straighter section was a fucking rocketship. Hauled ass, and Nelson said he struggled to keep up. Trail riding pretty good until lower down, but even that was okay. All the way down to the Kiwi, Nelson saying the dust I was chucking up towards the end was chokey.
Across Dyers and an event free climb up to the upper Thompsons, I dived into the little shortcut, only to find my way blocked by a fallen spruce branch. Around this and into the cruise and slowly steepening climb, evil pincher towards the top where a dude (familiar face - see him on the trails regularly) was waiting for us to exit. I was maxed out so needed a good breather up here. Off into the around and down descent, over the jumpies, over the see-saw and hang a hard right along the fenceline up to the end. Over the fence and lined up for Pedalfine. Biff boff baff down here, left into the unused duffy trail dropping down with minimal traction and peeling left along the slippery wee bridge and some green mossed dropover onto the cross track 4wd. Across and into Razza's, dropping through some climbers on the next cross track down, dropping into the tech with gusto. One of the corners near the end has turned weirdly nasty, a tree root looks to be ready to be a pedal grabber, as it's come loose from the ground attached at each end. It'd stalled Nelson (don't actually think he caught it, but stalled nonetheless), and so I stalled too. Managed to get going again into the next droparound corner, and boffed it out the bottom (where 4 ebikers were waiting). We started climbing and they climbed off ahead of us. Up to the junction and off over into lower Pedalfine, dropping down the next section, then we rode up the 4wd back to the bottom of Razza's, and took, effectively the continuation of it into the Brentzone, across to the far side of this and down into the bottom.
From here was time to introduce Nelson to the Corporate Ladder, climbing it's steepness (which made me stop to breath twice! (still getting over the ffing flu, afterall). up onto the start of Sneaky, where we climbed on up to 40fter and back up where we'd climbed before, around into the steeperer and up to Skidder where we ran into Mel and her friend. Up over 19th, dropping down (nearly crashing where we hit the road, skidded slideways onto the right drop over, then down Tawhairanui up to the dogparkcarpark and into my 235 for a very nice flight, swooping through the bush and over the first jump realising on landing how greasy soggy it's been since last rains. I baulked around the 2nd jump and we flowed all the way out to the very end, with the carry from H'Ell up onto road and final blat down home.
Well worthy 11.65 kms and a piddly wee 435 m climbed.
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