Thought I'd share a couple of my recent rides.



The first of these was my first time up lofty (from the city side). See, I live in Basket Range, which means I don't have to ride up a great big hill, 'cause the playground is at my doorstep, so to speak, and I regularly spin up through Ashton and to the top.  But on Tuesday morning, I got together with some friends, and we made our way up the old freeway from the other side. We were all at various fitness levels, and it was a fairly…

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This was an extra-ordinary ride (for me at least) so I thought I'd try to describe why.

 

I had been wondering for a while if there was going to be a ride to mark the winter solstice, as there had been a summer solstice ride. The summer version was, as many people who have been on this site for a while would know, a ride that had a degree of tragedy attached to it and personally I was hoping to claim back a bit of fun and achievement for this particular solstice ride***. I…

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Went for a spin down the Veloway for the first time today, only halfway though. Turned off and went up Kenihans Rd around Happy Valley Resevour and then on to Windebanks Rd. And then I got lost in some part of Aberfoyle Park! Yikes!



Nice steep suburban back streets and lots of dead end streets - I had to take a narrow park track, fortunately suitable for the road bike, and ask a person walking their dog directions - thank-you lady, she was spot on and got me back onto the road to… Continue