Wed ride turns four

 

The Wednesday morning ride at Daisy turned four today with about a dozen riders out enjoying the fine but hot and humid morning. Its a testament to the riders who frequent the forest on Wednesday morning that the ride has lasted for as long as it has with  no more organisation than "see you there". A great bunch of guys/gals to spend a few hours on the singletrack with each week. 

What rain?

This was the picture as I arrived at the starting point for the ride this morning. Everywhere else had turned into a mudfest so we thought we would try somewhere different.  After we avoided the flooded streams, we found some nice trails that we where able to stretch the legs on.

All in all, a good mornings ride.

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.

Too much red?

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It seems that after the Epic everybody is wearing red and white ....

Back on the bike

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It was great to be on the bike again after focusing on the sea kayaking in the last couple of months. A crew of 9 took to the DH single track this morning before the dust storm engulfed BrisVegas in a cloud of orange.

It was a long since I have ridden with Nick ... and on the Yeti as well !!!

... its been even longer since riding with Dean ... maybe a year.  Good to see you can still ride ... just please don't run over the camera guy next time :-)

Daisy at dawn

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With a crew of 14 regulars on a cold, clear morning the tracks were perfect, the crew was great and the riding was excellent.















Did anyone else see this guy on the ride?

Autumn mornings

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It was my first autumn morning ride this year and it was great to get out onto the tacky Daisy Hill trails before dawn with the regular crew.

Rich managed an OTB on the rock garden but otherwise an uneventful but thoroughly enjoyable ride. Dave made a flying visit before heading off to fly his work toy, while the rest of us rode a 19km circuit. There were about 4 other small groups of riders out there this morning enjoying the forest after all the wet weather. I look forward to next week. :-)

Rhino's Horn and track #9

Another Wednesday morning, so its out with crew at Daisy Hill for a mtb spin before work. Some of the regulars couldn't make it today as they rode into the city for a free sausage.

It was out to track #9 for a look at this new piece of single track. On the way we were challenged by Rhino's Horn .... a very steep climb!! Some of us rode it, some of walked part of it .... as I said ... its steep. I'm not sure if it has something to do with our local Rhino, but a good chance.

After riding the tracks around Canberra, track #9 was a bit of a disappointment to me .... oh well, something a little different is always fun.

In all, we had 11 riders out today covering about 19km .... and of course, always fun and a great way to start the day!