With all the rain and cool weather over the last couple of months you’d reckon Summer had taken an end of 2010 sickie. Well up until today anyway. New Years eve and a wild and windy ~40 degree celcius summer day. Phew! (more…)
Don’t need to ride many Central Victorian trails before you come across super tight corners, switchbacks or u turns, sometimes lots of them, strung together one after another. Whatever you call them, whether climbing or descending they can be tricky little suckers to negotiate. All of the sudden the wheelbase of your MTB starts to feel like a semi trailer. (more…)
Had a sweet late afternoon/early evening ride out Baco — so many trails, the more you ride the more you find, great fun piecing it all together. It was a treat to be out so late in the bush, as usually with my early morning shifts I’m off to bed early but with time off over Xmas I’ve been living it up 🙂 (more…)
Great ride with Julien late in the day, taking in arguably the best section of singletrack on the Mt Franklin to Castlemaine section of the Great Dividing Trail. (more…)
The 1×10 Drivetrain has been chugging along nicely, lots of places where the 36 (on the 11-36) comes in handy, definitely a worthwhile upgrade to the 1×9. The shifting performance is also much improved thanks to XT Dyna-sys, sweet! (more…)
A rainy day, some spare time and home alone away means... kitchen becomes makeshift Mojo MTB Workshop. With radio blasting muzak, perfect opportunity to swap over to the 1x10 drivetrain,…
Woke up to a Queensland-ish morning – sunny, warm and humid. After the forecast severe storms failed to show during the night it was a great opportunity to get out for a ride, before the next front passes over in the coming days. (more…)
Woohoo! first sunny day we’ve had for some time. The trails around Castlemaine drain off and dry out fairly quickly, not much top soil left from all the gold mining, mainly rocks. Even so I thought it would be best to stay out of the gully areas which are still draining the water away and stick to higher ground, riding the trails on a hill on the outskirts of town known as The Monk. A few small puddles but overall the trails were dry and in good shape. (more…)