25.12.09

Last minute bash in the Alice

Ah christmas.. riding, eating, sifting. The day of the year really.

7:30 was a nice casual start time for a ride with Po, Suze, Clarke and Julia. What started out as a completely overcast sky, soon cleared to a clear blue one but the cool breeze held firm to give us some great riding conditions. Out on the fence track, up along the helmet track, and return via roo track and 5-ways.. a nice way to spend 2.5hours.

Po, Suze and Julia on the Helmet Track.

Suze, Po, Julia and Clarke.

It was then off to Suze's house for breaky. If only every breakfast could be like this! Eggs, bacon, haloumi, salmon, garlic mushies, salad, fresh turtle bread, avo, juice, coffee , champers... 1pm with bellies bursting it was time to head home and take up the sifting component of the day. And sifting better come through and shrink the size of my belly because we've got a mountain of food to get through before we board our flight tomorrow arvo!

Aw'right - happy christmases everybody! Enjoy yourselves, and see you in Melbourne or up at Buffalo:)

22.12.09

3 days to Buffalo

Aw geeze i'm excited. Just a few short (incredibly loooong) days to go till we fly south to Mt Buffalo. Best part number 1: hanging out with our posse of friends again. Best part number 2: we're packing some bikes. Hai Hai! Best part number 3: wedding! Yippee!

Logistically a bit of a nightmare, having to rely on lifts to get from Melbourne to Buffalo to the Yarra to Melbourne, but man it'll be rad. We've been dreaming of the trails we'll ride (dreaming of BERMS!! AW FEED ME SOME BERMS!) Up there on the list is Beechworth. Haven't ridden there since the 6hour a few years back. Then theres the trails at Mt Beauty. Never ridden there. And then theres the hills. Ah, I can't wait for some real (Australian) hills. I'm sick of a little nipple with barely 50m vertical gain being called a hill. Damn flat Alice. (We have a bunch ride here called the 'Hills Bunch'. Still trying to figure out where the hills are...) It's certainly been going from one extreme to the other - moving from Bourg St Maurice to Alice Springs.

Hai!

2.12.09

Denti done

Yay! Built and ready to roll:)