The Big Wheel Rocks!
Loving the Big Wheel
Not much to say except everything you’ve read about how great a 36″ wheel feels to ride is 110% true! (more…)
Castlemaine Festival of the Wheel
Festival of the Wheel
Last weekend Bike around the Bay, this weekend Festival of the Wheel! Could any unicycle rider resist an event celebrating the wheel? Not me! (more…)
16,000+ Bikes, 2 Unicycles, Around the Bay in a Day, 2008
Around the Bay in a Day
Wasn’t too keen on getting out of bed at 5.00am, but am glad I did! Along with over 16,000 cyclists and one other unicyclist I participated in the annual Around the Bay in a Day ride in Melbourne. (more…)
Magura HS33 Brakes
Magura HS33 Brakes and KH Spooner
To Brake or not to Brake
I like the simplicity of unicycles, so it took some time to accept that complicating a simple machine by running brakes wouldn’t offend the gods of unicycling, or have a negative effect on my riding technique. It’s a unicycle right, you don’t need brakes, you brake with your legs! (more…)
Great Day of Riding!
Great Dividing Trail: Mt Franklin-Castlemaine
The Great Dividing Trail runs from Bacchus Marsh to Blackwood, to Daylesford (branching to Ballarat), to Castlemaine, to Bendigo – over 280km of trail mainly through forested areas. The GDT was initially envisioned as a walking trail but has now evolved into a multi use trail, including MTB and unicycles! (more…)
Wombat Forest, Sailors Falls
Sailors Falls to Glenlyon
We sold our beloved 1977 Kombi which I had to drop off at Sailors Falls. I took the 29″ with me and rode back to Glenlyon, ~31km through the Wombat Forest. It was my first long ride off road on the 29 with 125 cranks, and overall was great fun! (more…)
Lyonville Springs, Wombat Forest
Lyonville Springs
Had a great ride on the 29 today – a ~27km loop from home to Lyonville Springs, through the Wombat Forest via Toris Road, Big Al Track, Swaby Lane and back via Loddon River Road, Kangaroo Creek Road. The ride time was just under three hours. It’s definitely time to swap down from 150 cranks on the KH29 for longer rides! (more…)
Loddon Loop
Loddon Loop
I’m really enjoying exploring the trails in the nearby Wombat Forest on the KH29. Crazy to think we have lived here so many years and I didn’t know many of these existed. My favorite rides atm centre around a series of tracks that loop back and forth over the Loddon River between Glenlyon and Wheatsheaf. (more…)