When the alarm went off at 5:00 AM, I peeked through the curtains and discovered it was raining heavily.
“Bike or bed?” I sleepily asked myself.
Surprisingly quickly, I decided to “just show up” and see what happened.
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Category: Places
Westvale
Today’s adventure took Darb, Paul and me over the mountains to Westvale – a small farming community nestled between Somerset Dam and the D’Aguilar Range.
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Rocky Hole
Today’s adventure took us to “Rocky Hole” – a delightful rock pool in D’Aguilar National Park.
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Mount Byron
The weather bureau predicted thunderstorms with 100% chance of rain. As rumbling dark clouds gathered in the early morning sky, there was only one thing to do: Just turn up!
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Wiangaree
This unusual ride took us from Running Creek near Rathdowney, over the Border Ranges to the Richmond River, and then back over the range to our starting point.
I have wanted to do this course for a long time because it closes a large gap in my Ride Network between Rathdowney and the Border Ranges. This “missing link” now completes an unbroken line of riding routes which stretches from Kyogle in Northern NSW all the way up to Rainbow Beach on the Fraser Coast and out as far as the Bunya Mountains.
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Beat the Heat
On a dry and dusty morning, with mid-summer arriving two months early, seventeen crazy mountain bikers had a great idea….
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Castaways
(Photo: Tony Ryan)
Two hundred years ago, a couple of hapless convicts trudged northwards along the beaches of Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in the vain hope that they might eventually reach Sydney. Although they were headed in the wrong direction, Darb and I retraced some of their footsteps on our bikes.
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Colinton
“Can we do something a bit easier this weekend?”, Becca asked.
“Easy is fine”, I replied, “So long as it’s interesting :)”
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