Ibis Mojo HD

After the drought ending rain earlier in the year the woods are jam packed with an amazing display of wildflowers this Spring. On a fine Saturday afternoon bizarrely you don’t come across anyone else out on the trails. It makes for great riding in a selfish kind of way but the lack of people out there enjoying the bush verges on a wrong you want to right. With a fuel reduction burn scheduled over Summer chances are it could be many years before the woods will look like this again. (more…)

Here’s the funny thing about turns in the trail – they curve instead of going straight, go figure! (more…)

Loved today’s ride. Some days things just seem to float along, you’d reckon if you looked down the tires would be magically hovering above the ground. I guess it offsets the days when you just seem to be smashing into everything. (more…)

Double shot cuppa joe followed by Mojo HD fix. Hell of a way to start the day! :P

Had a great day in the bush, working on a short alternative section of trail. I’d only planned to spend an hour or so out there but couldn’t resist — beautiful Spring day, bush packed with flowers, and if I could get the first pass as the section done the rain forecast in the next few days should settle it down nicely… perfect! Fast forward 5-6 hours, wiped out, job done! (more…)

First day of Spring, cracker of a day, feeling ok with some time to spare  so had to get out on the Mojo HD. Headed out to Mt Tarrengower to play around on the granite rocks and boulders above The Butts.  Have hardly ridden in the last three weeks so tried to take it easy, don’t want the flu to return. I didn’t ride that well, sort of heavy vs floating — the rear tire took a beating — but it was great to be out. The large boulders are fun no matter what. (more…)

After a bunch of riding and track stuff had a few rest days this last week, which happened to fit in nicely with wet wintery weather. (more…)

During the latter part of yesterday’s ride the rear wheel on the Mojo started to feel funky all of a sudden, sort of like it was deflating but not quite.  Looking down at it spinning around it had a fair size buckle, wobbling side to side. Hmmph… turned around and cruised home. It turns out another spoke had failed at the nipple. That’s two spokes that have failed plus a couple of bent ones, time to get the wheel rebuilt. (more…)