Nice mild night out tonight. I took the car down to Bowenvale this morning, riding to work from there then home afterwards. This way, Nelson could come straight to mine and we'd get more down than up.
We headed up the usual byways through Vic, over 19th , Skidder, the gutser, and hit both Thompsons down to the Kiwi. Up the Summit from here, Worlsey's Rd onto Nun, steadily climbed.
Dropped in and I was coping with less than ideal lighting - not sure how much life this thing has so I'm wary of using much fullbeam. We biffed and baffed all the way down, me taking it pretty easy but jumping a couple of lines I haven't ridden in a while. Down near the end, from just before Capt Torpedo and Drainpipe there were some trail fairies (who we'd spotted below on our way up - Richie Goldworthy, apparently).
Out through Kiwi and back up the road, dropped into Vic-top down around the jumpies and back up Worm, parking at the top as a few riders got going, including one grom down off over the big jump up here. We followed him after a time, off down Upper Fenceline, exploring the zigs and zags (a couple of which I'd missed on Saturday). When we got out to the access track, we pushed back up through where I'd gone up Saturday to just before Cool Runnings crossing, and dropped off to the right, down what must be the bottom of Tilted Sally / Flow Rider (according to Trailforks). Nice flow through this taking us all the way to the fence-crossing and down into the open. From here it was a blast around whatever that bit is called (Eastside?) before heading into the trees for the Bridges/NuBridges. Down here, nice blast and then down valley and into the Hidden Valley climb up to Old Skool. Chuff chuff chuff. I cleaned all the hairpins - i think Nelson is still getting used to the long wheelbase of the Rocky cos he missed the very first one and tweaked on a root on the 3rd one. So, so mild up here in the valley, and no wind (after a very windy day and night prior).
Into the Old Skool and it was a ripsnorting blast. This is where Nelson was choosing some crazy lines. I was right on his tail and following and it was rough. A little bit of grease around in the rutty straight sections, which led to some interesting handling, but made it out alive and we blitzed down the gravel and out down the road to the car.
Choice ride for a Chooseday - 13.3 kms, 389 m climbed, ~600 m descended
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