To Hells Gates and back

When its hot as hell outside, why not take a trip to Hells Gates

(in a sea kayak of course).

Flat out Wednesday

Although the sign says that it was sunny, the first half hour was light rain which was good in settling the dust.

The flats started out as I took the bike out of the car only to find it had a flat rear tyre which I changed before the ride with an audience of a dozen riders watching me looking at their watches. Simon had a rear flat halfway through the ride which Neil and Jaman helped with after the rest of the crew took off. Rich had the third on 2nd Cummin and Max watch him change that ;-)

The fouth flat was not a flat tyre but rather someone charging down the gravelly fire track doing a big slide and skid towards the barbed wire fenced and then proceeded to over-balance, unable to unclip and ended up on their back like a stunned turtle while the onlookers laughed (a lot). So really the fourth flat was a rider flat - namely me - so no photos 'cause I had the camera.

Chickendrinker helps Simon change a flat. Its good to have mates.

A Sunday with the Wednesday crew

Spent the day racing with many of the Wednesday morning crew at the Karingal 4hr mountain bike race. It was great fun but pretty hot. Below is a bit of the action I captured as I stopped around the track .... a lot of familiar faces can be seen including cameo appearances by Rhino, Jaman, Dean0, chickendrinker, Floody, Token Kid, Rich the Stich, nitronic and many more.

Tall stories and pink lights

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Great morning again for the Wednesday morning ride with a good turn out ... the diggers would have been proud of the mateship displayed .... which also means ragging each other. Speaking of taking the piss .... who had the pink ayups on their bike this morning?????

... and we were all entertained by Jaman's stories of the Crocodile Trophy mtb race in North Qld recently.

Bike, planes and a lot of bull.

Sometimes bikes are a work of art.

But they still get ridden and the old ones can only watch on.

Flyboy gave us a lesson about planes ...

.. and then about riding rocks ...

... but there was also a lot of bull out at Old Hidden Vale.