Cycling, Friends, South East Qld, xc

Toowoomba to Brisbane

by NeilEnnis 18 January 2014 1 Comment Shortlink

Jubilee Park
Eric has been planning an overnight ride from Toowoomba to Brisbane for the last six months.

I’ve ridden sections of the route with him before and joined a few of those courses together into one big route that he could do in a couple of days. I was unable to do this ride with Eric, but Becca decided to join him on this adventure, and they set off from Toowoomba early in the morning after being dropped off the night before.

The ride started with an exciting descent through Jubilee Park, falling almost 500 metres in the space of 8km. When your ride has such a big descent at the start you know you’re going to have to repay it at some stage.
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Glasshouse Mountains

by NeilEnnis 12 January 2014 2 Comments Shortlink

Riding Through the Pine Forest
“Let’s just do an easy cruise through the Glass House Mountains”, Darb suggested a couple of days before the weekend.

We’ve had some fun adventures there before, and I agreed with him that it might be fun to pay this scenic volcanic caldera another visit – provided we didn’t have to work too hard.

As often happens, our “cruise” wasn’t as easy as we had anticipated.
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Chilling at Kobble Creek

by NeilEnnis 4 January 2014 No Comments Shortlink

Chilling in the Creek
With temperatures predicted to exceed 40C (104 F) we thought the best approach for today’s ride would be something short that involved cooling off in a creek somewhere.

I also wanted to map out some of the fun trails near the western shoreline of Lake Samsonvale.

So we set off early with no route in mind, planning to follow any un-ridden trails we encountered before finishing at Kobble Creek
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Bayview

by NeilEnnis 2 January 2014 No Comments Shortlink

Bayview Single Tracks
For the first ride of the year, my friend Dean invited Darb and me to ride with him on some of his favourite trails at Bayview Conservation Park in Redlands between Mount Cotton and Redland Bay.

I’m pretty used to riding off-road for half a day in rough country, but there’s something really challenging about riding nothing but single-tracks. They’re narrower and more physically demanding than fire trails and gravel roads, but they’re a lot of fun.
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The Mango Run

by NeilEnnis 31 December 2013 2 Comments Shortlink

Stowing Mango Loot

There’s a remote mango tree by Lake Samsonvale that’s laden with fruit this time of year. Any mangoes that fall to the ground are scavenged by feral animals, so we thought we’d do the environment a favour and relieve this grand old tree of some of its fruit.

We think the tree might have been planted by the Joyner family over a century ago, but trees don’t tell tales, so we’ll never know.
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Northbrook

by NeilEnnis 21 December 2013 No Comments Shortlink

Kluvers Lookout
“Lets see what happens” – that was pretty much our plan today.

The idea was to ride up from Lacey’s Creek (near Dayboro) to Kluvers Lookout, and then back to our starting point in a loop. I’ve done it many times before with different friends, and we’ve all loved it. But the difference was that this time we’d go off our route at some stage to see where we ended up.
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