Bikes!
Sunday - A rather pleasant spin on the road bikes. Headed out to Belconnen via Ginninderra Drive and then around the lake. A coffee at Ha Ha Lounge. Back to Civic for breakfast.
Monday - Being a public holiday and mid autumn it was time to go on a minor epic so it was off to Wingello State Forest!
A small group of Uncle P, Miss C and I lined up for the start of about 40km of lush riding. Wingello is in the Southern Highlands about two hours north of Canberra in the car.
The trails are a mix of fire road and flowing single track. There were a few big climbs early in the piece with the fire roads giving us some full speed descents into lush fern gullies with the inevitable slow grind back up.
Some of the highlights were the sections of ‘Great Wall’ that looked like you were riding though a set from ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, the bits that were from ‘Lord of the Rings’ and the sighting of a lyre-bird. It was well worth stopping every now and again to take in the lush scenery, but the trails just begged you to go faster….
In the end we missed some bits of the trail but managed to do the entire single track (will it ever end?) and it was a tried but happy bunch of us who piled back into the car from the long drive home.
Monday - Being a public holiday and mid autumn it was time to go on a minor epic so it was off to Wingello State Forest!
A small group of Uncle P, Miss C and I lined up for the start of about 40km of lush riding. Wingello is in the Southern Highlands about two hours north of Canberra in the car.
The trails are a mix of fire road and flowing single track. There were a few big climbs early in the piece with the fire roads giving us some full speed descents into lush fern gullies with the inevitable slow grind back up.
Some of the highlights were the sections of ‘Great Wall’ that looked like you were riding though a set from ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’, the bits that were from ‘Lord of the Rings’ and the sighting of a lyre-bird. It was well worth stopping every now and again to take in the lush scenery, but the trails just begged you to go faster….
In the end we missed some bits of the trail but managed to do the entire single track (will it ever end?) and it was a tried but happy bunch of us who piled back into the car from the long drive home.