Unless you work in the bike industry where a continuous stream of cool wheeled goodies come and go, if you’re anything like me your current ride is your world. When you’re not riding it, chances are you’re obsessing about it — component choices, pressures, maintenance, reliving previous rides, dreaming about rides to come. (more…)
Another spec’y fine ‘summer’ day, cool enough to head out for a midday ride, love this weather pattern! (more…)
After flooding rain and stinking heat, some awesome weather! (more…)
You don’t see many old chromo 1991 Stumpjumpers wheeling around, you don’t come across many guys riding unicycles off road either. (more…)
What a flat, dry, treeless, hot and rocky um err.. landscape — who would want to live or ride there? That was my first impression of Central Victoria in the mid 90’s, the mission being to see where my partner grew up and meet her family. Funny really, as I now realize that any time you have that sort of reaction to a place chances are it means you’ll end up living there one day! (more…)
My old 1991 Specialized Stumpjumper was and amazingly still is a great mountain bike… a wheel love story for sure!
Even though my previous MTB, a 1990 Shogun Prairie Breaker, was too big for me I was hooked on living in Victorian High Country and roaming the Alpine National Park over summers. Just needed to get a better bike. (more…)
