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highlandsflyer
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Love the pictures 26er, very like our neck of the woods right now! I guess it is a little warmer here though!
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Love the winter shots, 26er-do you use studded tires? Today-Wednesday-A little cooler, about 65 F. with a high overcast. Probably the last ride for a couple of days, as we are supposed to get slammed with a big storm off the Pacific starting tomorrow. We need the rain, so I don't mind missing a few days.
Charlie Kelly and I rode up into the Water District and across the Magic Bridge today, about 800' climb...
Love the winter shots, 26er-do you use studded tires? Today-Wednesday-A little cooler, about 65 F. with a high overcast. Probably the last ride for a couple of days, as we are supposed to get slammed with a big storm off the Pacific starting tomorrow. We need the rain, so I don't mind missing a few days.
Charlie Kelly and I rode up into the Water District and across the Magic Bridge today, about 800' climb...Attachments
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FairfaxPat
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Today-Saturday-Happy to report we got 2 inches of rain here yesterday in Fairfax-A break in the weather this AM, so we rode up to the West about 900' and hung out for awhile at the top-Then it started to rain lightly, so we got back on down the hill to town and home right quick! A warm storm, about 60 F. out today...
Today-Saturday-Happy to report we got 2 inches of rain here yesterday in Fairfax-A break in the weather this AM, so we rode up to the West about 900' and hung out for awhile at the top-Then it started to rain lightly, so we got back on down the hill to town and home right quick!
A warm storm, about 60 F. out today...Attachments
FairfaxPat
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FairfaxPat
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It is always great to escape the cold, and as we have a couple of road bikes stored 130ish ks outside of Melbourne, it was time to do some summer riding.
From snow one day, we jumped on a plane, got in late, and once up, we pulled the bike boxes out of the garage and re-built them, it was lunchtime when they were ready, 30 degrees in the shade, but there was a 70k ride awaiting including the clime of Mount Tarrengower which houses a fire tower
Suffering from jet lag sucks, so we were up quite early and I had a ride mapped out. I had stolen it from the Condor Mavic JLT team as they are presently based down the road. Massive cycling area as the Aus champs are held not far away either.
Out we went, just to do a 100is k ride, taking in Mt Alexander, but within 20ks, I had my first puncture
and before we hit the base of the climb, I found my second !!!
Just before the climb, we came a cross a huge kangaroo just sitting in the middle of the road, but alas, no photo !!!
For the third ride, we drove into Melbourne for breakfast at Cafe Racer. Basically a meeting point for either the beginning or end of rides down Beach road. Some days there are hundreds, but we were not interested in just a 46k ride, we wanted to ride all the way to the end of Port Phillip Bay to Sorrento via Arthurs Seat, a tough 3k climb
After the climb, we went down a different way until we reached Sorrento. It was a nice town, but we rode straight through it until we came to the pier where the ferries arrive
We had come 100ks, so we had another 100 to go, but this time, we just stuck to the coast and enjoyed a tailwind, until it switched with 30ks to go !!!
Still, it was a great day out
It is always great to escape the cold, and as we have a couple of road bikes stored 130ish ks outside of Melbourne, it was time to do some summer riding.
From snow one day, we jumped on a plane, got in late, and once up, we pulled the bike boxes out of the garage and re-built them, it was lunchtime when they were ready, 30 degrees in the shade, but there was a 70k ride awaiting including the clime of Mount Tarrengower which houses a fire tower
Suffering from jet lag sucks, so we were up quite early and I had a ride mapped out. I had stolen it from the Condor Mavic JLT team as they are presently based down the road. Massive cycling area as the Aus champs are held not far away either.
Out we went, just to do a 100is k ride, taking in Mt Alexander, but within 20ks, I had my first puncture
and before we hit the base of the climb, I found my second !!!
Just before the climb, we came a cross a huge kangaroo just sitting in the middle of the road, but alas, no photo !!!
For the third ride, we drove into Melbourne for breakfast at Cafe Racer. Basically a meeting point for either the beginning or end of rides down Beach road. Some days there are hundreds, but we were not interested in just a 46k ride, we wanted to ride all the way to the end of Port Phillip Bay to Sorrento via Arthurs Seat, a tough 3k climb
After the climb, we went down a different way until we reached Sorrento. It was a nice town, but we rode straight through it until we came to the pier where the ferries arrive
We had come 100ks, so we had another 100 to go, but this time, we just stuck to the coast and enjoyed a tailwind, until it switched with 30ks to go !!!
Still, it was a great day out
FairfaxPat
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Great shots Davroos-nice to see it's Summer somewhere. Today-Thursday-CK and I rode up to the West to do a little trail riding-we actually found some muddy spots on the Northern Exposure of some of the trail in the shade- but nothing deep or very long. Really warm for February, about 76 F. (24 C.) and sunny. We stopped by the MTB Museum downtown (it's not open yet) and ran into Joe Murray, an old Fairfax boy I haven't seen in 20 years- I took a snap with CK in the background middle...
Great shots Davroos-nice to see it's Summer somewhere. Today-Thursday-CK and I rode up to the West to do a little trail riding-we actually found some muddy spots on the Northern Exposure of some of the trail in the shade- but nothing deep or very long. Really warm for February, about 76 F. (24 C.) and sunny. We stopped by the MTB Museum downtown (it's not open yet) and ran into Joe Murray, an old Fairfax boy I haven't seen in 20 years- I took a snap with CK in the background middle...
