Back Of Mt Donna Buang, Tuesday, 13/03/2012

Two weeks ago I finally did a ride I've wanted to do for awhile - climb Mt Donna Buang from Yarra Junction via Warburton and descend on the gravel road towards Healesville, connect to the Don Valley Rd, and loop back to Yarra Junction on the Warburton rail Trail.

Kinglake Ride 18th March 2012

I'd never ridden to Kinglake before so I set out about 8am and rode to my mate Dave's place in Viewbank. From there we wiggled through Eltham and crossed over to the Diamond Ck Rd for a flatter ride out to St Andrews. It looked like it would be a nice ride back that way, once we'd done the climb up the ridge to Kinglake.

Weight Graph: From 15yo until now...

This is a record of my weight since the age of 15, when I stopped growing up ... and started growing out. Bear in mind that for my height the middle of the healthy BMI range (20-25) would have me at 69kgs. At 77kgs I pop through the top of that range....

Ride to Warrandyte 6th Feb 2012

Idle Bike Lust ....

Spied this beauty at Bright on the weekend...demonstrator from Independent Fabrications on show at the Audax Alpine cycling village in Bright.

Audax Alpine Challenge 2012

On Jan 29th 2012 I rode the 'AAC130' (actually 121 kms)  from Bright over Tawonga Gap to Mt Beauty, up to Falls Creek and return. Once again I blame Justin for dragging me into this, another epic ride. You can see the route and summary data from the ride below. Don't be alarmed by the quoted max speed of 80kph - the GPS data is very dodgy for speed calculations. It was probably a bit less than that ... maybe 75 ... :)

Warburton-Lake Mountain Ride

Yesterday J and I did a second ride to Lake Mountain in preparation for our Audax Alpine Challenge 135km ride on Jan 29th. It's 120 km return with plenty of climbing (over 2000m of total ascent) so should do the job OK.

Shed Clean Out

This old mountain bike is taking up space in the shed - was bought in about 1998 for one of the boys but never got ridden much at all. I'd be happy to get rid of it at some stage .... details below.

Konya Excell 777 from mid/late '90s ...
26" MTB Cro-Mo tubing
Big knobbies on board
21 speed Shimano gears,
Right hand twist-grip shifter is damaged (5 min repair at LBS I'm sure ...)

3 Day Tour 21-23 November 2011 - Colac to Apollo Bay ... and back !!

This is just my second bike tour and this time we decided to do it fast and light. The main aim was to ride Turton's Track in the Otways.


The sculpture at Gellibrand - We are Still at the Low Bit on The Left...

For Sale

Still lying around at home.... a TRANZX stationary trainer, in very good nick.