The rain forecast for Tuesday is rather daunting. Thus the ride will now take place on Thursday. Same place, same time.
Jon
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Saturday, February 26, 2022
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Tuesday ride
Tuesday March 1.
Jells Pk to Oakleigh.
0830 at the Ferntree Gully Rd Carpark.
All sealed roads.
Kirsten is ok to lead.
Tuesday, February 22, 2022
Thursday 24 Monbulk footy oval 8.30
Easy to Moderate ride, (perhaps more moderate than easy). About 40% gravel. A roundabout way to Mt. Evelyn / Silvan dam. Then the choice of a short, medium or long ride back to Monbulk.
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Tuesday, February 8, 2022
South Gippsland rides 3,4,5 Feb
With Kirsten,Kerri, Jutta & Werner
Jurgen Weller
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Jurgen Weller
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Saturday, February 5, 2022
South Gippsland rides 2,3,4 Feb
Participants, Kirsten, Kerri, Jutta, Werner & Jurgen.
Day I Falls ridge and O'Grady ridge roads
Day 2 the Fish Creek, Buffalo, Tarwin Lower, Walkerville circuit
Day 3 Port Welshpool & return
Most rides were a combination of road and gravel
Wednesday, January 26, 2022
100 Year Event !
It might have been just any old Tuesday ride except for the facts that we were starting at Hermans Corner, that it was still pretty dark at just after 7a.m.and there was a forecast for once in 100 year weather event accompanied by 50 mm of rain ! Amazingly there were 4 of us present standing around aimlessly in the growing rain waiting for the first person to say that we should go home ! When Jon suggested instead that we act as lightning rods by cycling up Grantulla Rd we retreated hastily 3 KMs to Werners place in Menzies Creek where we took in a good brew of coffee and passed the time with a nice little natter. Not surprisingly it took a good hour for the thunderstorm activity to pass so now feeling guilty and also not wanting to go back up School road we instead took the leisurely route back along Selby Aura adding in a nice little workout back to Hermans Cnr. I think we might have just cracked the 10 km mark for the day but at least we showed what a bunch of intrepid adventurers we are !
Thursday, January 20, 2022
When the going got tough !
The "Awesome Eight" minus one (with Jurgen still sunbathing at Sandy Point) took off from Emerald Library en route to Upper Beac and beyond on a warming up Thurs ride. Kirsten was a welcome addition after her recent covid experience although it soon became apparent that long covid includes not only impaired smell but also impaired hearing as she breezed past our first proposed turn off point ! Back together again we journied through the back blocks of Emerald to Upper Beach re assembling on the downhill section of Salisbury Rd .. well most of us did except for Pete as head down bum up he flew past the group (admittedly hiding in the bushes) and proceeded to find his way down towards Tomuc Valley near Pakenham. While we luxuriated at Bellevue Orchard Cafe in Officer over 2-3 coffees (they've done a great job in updating facilities) Pete battled his way back to join us (mumbling something like I wish I'd gone fishing) adding nearly 10kms to his ride total !
With the option of a relatively straight forward ride back up Officer Rd Mike instead took the group trail riding through Beaconsfield and then up Payne Rd notorious for its near vertical last 100 metre section. With the dry roads full of dust we battled our way back towards Upper Beac up a succession of increasingly steep pinches that had most of us now beginning to struggle. I summited the last pinch in a semi delirious state to see what i thought was either a very large road kill or a strangely placed bicycle parking rack. It was in fact Kirsten who still feeling the after effects of Covid had taken to having a little snoozy right in the middle of the unmade road
With nearly everyone starting to grumble (except Werner who was loving it) we eventually made our way back home in various states of disrepair where i achieved in the enviable record of breaking the less than 4km an hour barrier along the way. Fun .... hmmm let me think
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Kerri's ride
It was last Tuesday on our "Evan's Track bog revisited" ride, that Mike, Kerri and Jon came across a fenced off area that appeared to be a tempting track into the Yellingbo State forest. Several things deterred us from trying it straight away.
One, we had no idea where it lead two.
Two, we were still trying to find a way around the muddy bog in the middle of Evan's Track.
And three, a big warning sign announcing that deer culling could be in progress. Than means guns going off.
Nonetheless, the site of unexplored territory triggered an idea in Kerri's head. She remembered a similar entrance into another part of the forest somewhere along the Woori Yallock Road. Well, the next thing we knew, Kerri had planned our next Thursday ride to this unknown gate, that leads to an unknown destination, by a route that was equally unknown..
Thursday arrived and 7 of the Alt.Thurs. group dutifully followed her lead along Woori road until it felt we'd gone to the world's end and perhaps adjourning for coffee at Yellingbo was a good idea. But NO, just short of the coffee shop, Kerri spotted her gateway to the track, duly marked with signs such as "Do not enter Do not pass Go. Enter at own risk". As if that wasn't sufficient, the barbed wire fencing surround the gate, shouted " Forbidden Territory".
So in we all piled. Graceful climbing over barbed wire fencing was achieved by all. Bikes were mounted and down the grassy knoll we rode, across rocky river beds, up precipitous hills, past wonderful forest scenery and verdant pastures, experiencing the difference between rutted and non rutted tracks.
We have the world to ourselves was the feeling. Peace. Soltitude. Relaxation. No chainsaw noise, only bleet(d)ing sheep. So pleasantly isolated did we feel that it was rather sad to emerge from our place of escapism and rejoin the teeming throng on some of the minor dirt roads around the Silvan area. We even saw two cars.
Then back to the bitumen and into Monbulk for coffee followed by the relentless climb back to Emerald from Monbulk.
48k traversed and 810m climbing.
A good day's work.
Thanks Kerri.
Alt Thurs Gp
Monday, November 29, 2021
South Gippsland rides 26,27,28 Nov
Four cyclists, namely Kirsten, Kerri, Werner and Jurgen took off from Sandy Point to do the rail trail this time. Friday was from Fish Creek to Koonwarra and back, about 70 km. past the worksite where they are re-aligning the South Gippsland highway. A mammoth undertaking. On Saturday we cycled from Fish Creek to Port Welshpool and back, about 90 km. Headwind there, tail wind on the way back. Sunday like the good lord said was a day of rest so we became tourists instead of cyclists and drove to Agnes Falls and Mt. McNichol. We thought we will leave some really good road rides until next time.
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Tuesday ride CHANGE
Hot weather and other delights have cause changes to Tuesday ride from the library.
NOW
0830 Start. Mortimer's Picnic Ground, Gembrook.
Dirt bikes.
Jon
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