Thursday 2nd Feb ride

Meet at Stud Rd stadium for a longish ride.

Start time is 0900.

Sealed surface, hence road bikes ok.

Headed Dingley,  Frankston and other unique places.

Guidance will be a cojoint effort from Karlo and Helen.

Oops correction

Delete Thursday 31 and insert Tuesday 31.

Tuesday 31 Jan ride

Mississippi here we come.

Meet at Yarra Juntion.

0900.

Dirt bikes.

Depending how we feel, we may come back via the aquaduct or parts thereof.

Jon

Thursday 26th. Oz Day ride

Early start of 0830 to avoid the teeming throngs.

Meet at Emerald library.

Headed to Up. Beac, then the forest, then make it up as we go along. Back via Birdland.

Definitely dirt bikes.

 A small towel could be useful to dry your feet, if the river/creek is running and the log across it is slippery (or missing!).

Jon

Ride Tuesday 24th

A journey to the flat lands.

Meet at the Ferntree Gully Library

at 0900

to be guided by Helen on a "tour de-suburban delights," 

Mainly sealed. Tiny bit of dirt though should be ok for road bikes.

Forecast says  slight chance of a shower. Should that happen, be prepared. Bring a brush and use the opportunity to wash your  bike.

Jon

Sandy Point cycling Sun 22 to Sun 2

I'll be down there at that time. The hordes have departed and the roads / bike tracks are now quieter. If anyone wants to come down at some stage between those dates you would be most welcome; however, if so please let me know when, otherwise I might have done an overnighter paddle to the Prom.

Jurgen Weller
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A hard days ride

 

An early start 

An aerial view at 4 Brothers

Jon looking pretty distressed after having to climb back up after missing a turn ! 

What you look like with a 360 camera in your mouth for a POV shot 

Through Mortimers

Jon's missed turn 

Thursday 19th ride

Meet at Mt Evelyn (Cogs cafe) and go to Warburton or points east.

0900.

Best for dirt bikes or down at mouth road bikes.

Jon

Tuesday ride to 4 Brothers Rock

The forecast was for 35 degrees, so naturally Werner, Mike and I decided we would go for a ride. What else was there to occupy your time on a scorching  hot day.

Werner and I rolled up to the Gembrook carpark at 0800 and waited for Mile to join us. After all, he suggested the ride. We waited and waited and waited. In the meantime, Mike was at the alternative carpark at Gembrook, waiting and waiting and waiting for us.

Success! Through sheer blind luck we encountered each other.

Off to 4 Brothers Rock.

Under the heavy tree canopy and revelling in the coolness of the air, we road out of Gembrook and down that lovely sweeping descent to Mortimer Park. Us and the March Flies.

I had repressed the memory of that short vicious hill that presents  just outside Mortimer Pk. A rude awakening after 5k of breezing down the road from Gembrook. However we three and the March Flies managed it without too much of a sweat.

Not so the next hill that I had also forgotten. A doozy. It destroys your will to live for after a long, steep, granny gear climb and with the top in sight, it turns a corner and low and behold, another steep, granny gear climb. Followed by another and another. The  March Flies had no problem though.

Finally the top. 7ks of solid climbing and about 500m elevation. The  notion of being prone on the ground for a  breather was appealing. ....  March Flies!!!!

At least from the top of the hill to the turn off to the rock is largely flat  unless you miss the turn off and start descending down the other side of the mountain.

I was still prone on the ground at the hill top, debating which March Fly to wreak my vengeance upon when Mike and Werner took off. 

They did not miss the turn off to the rock.

I did. 

It was only after riding 2.5k down a newly and thickly gravelled road did it dawn on me that the rock should be at the top of the hill, not where I was headed, namely the bottom.

About face and a solitory slow crawl for 2.5k back up the gravel road and find the turn off locate Mike and Werner. 

In the meantime, Werner was leading the search party wondering just how far to backtrack. Thus he ended doing as many additional k's as me. We compared miseries later as we rested at the rock and gave the March Flies time to find us again. At least it was cool under the canopy.

The return trip was easy, mainly flat or gentle slopes and still under tree cover. This meant we could maintain a pace 2kph above March Fly speed. 

I think I have had my fill of 4 Brothers Rock until next I forget about the two exhausting hills involved.

Jon

Tuesday ride

For those not going to the NZ meeting at Peter's place on Tuesday, there is a ride from 

Gembrook to Four Bros. Rock.

Start at 0800 as the weather may be hot. 

Dirt bikes

Mike and I are starters.

You Tube

Check out    ....

You Tube and Litchy76  

 

for footage of a few of our rides and a heap of Mike's serious o.s. hard yakka  rides.

NZ meeting Tuesday 17

Peter's place 11.00 am. For anyone that's interested in going.
Jurgen Weller
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Thursday 12th Jan

Kirsten is headed for an early ride on Thursday, given the forecast  temperature.

0730 at the library.

Destination t.b.a.

Road bike friendly. 

Tuesday ride

In a concerted effort to regain fitness following prolonged festivities, and without expending energy we neither of us possess, Mike and I are attempting our inaugural 2023 ride next Tuesday.

Emerald Library at 0930, headed the long way round (Bourke's Crk Rd) to the Apple orchard and back via the dam wall, then past Werner's place etc.

Dirt bikes.

Jon