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An enforced mid-week break saw us jump across the border to the Sauerland area of Germany (a hilly region just near the industrial heartland of the Ruhr valley).  Summer met us there:  temperatures got to the mid-thirties – hooray!  The loop from Sorpesee dam to Schmallenberg and Sundern had lots of long forested climbs like the one […]

We travelled down to Luxeuil-les-Bains for Les Trois Ballons, in the Vosges mountains of France, last week.  So did 4000 other riders, many from Belgium and the Netherlands.  It was a great event.  But the 220km, 4000m sufferfest left me wanting something a bit flatter, shorter and slower this weekend.  So after a short MTB ride with Karlos […]

It has taken a while but I have finally started venturing into Nerang State Forest. There is a reported 50 km of single track scattered throughout the native forest, only about 20 km so far legal with the remainder still being mapped assessed and made legal. The Geology is predominantly sandstone with some metamorphic rocks […]

The Gold Coast hinterland offers so many fantastic hill riding options which I have been gradually working my way through…as roads are repaired and opened again after landslides and floods of Cyclone Oswald and other storms. Rides from our base at Lower Beechmont include the regular Beechmont Road at a steady 4% grade, Binna Burra […]

Oops, only noticed this as I arrived home. Damn, brand new tyre!

Things started to feel a little weird towards the end of Coach’s birthday spin at Bruce Ridge last week. A weird clicking sound and feeling through the pedals soon became a disaster. My quads of steel (not!) managed the crack a RaceFace chainring!! Fortunately, Bleeksie managed to bash it together well enough for me to limp […]

Doggilini managed to burp his front tyre while we had a criss-cross session, led by track master Blunn.

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