Seriously It was really good…
We arrived on friday arvo around 5.30pm setup camp we had a great spot overlooking the valley where the hobbits were camping. It was a seriously funny bunch of guys I was with. We started out early saturday with some singles/twin/firetrail riding for about 30kms before we stumbled along the course which turned out to be the first loop for the sunday ride. We rode this and mucked about a bit, awesome riding, lots of singles I’ve never ridden before, nice tight narly stuff. Sunday saw us ready early with our bikes lined up at the start with only about 10 bikes in front of us, by the time we started there was probably nearly 50. They let us go spot on at 8.30. The first section was basically open firetrail until we hit the singles, fairly dusty in the middle of the pack but once you got some distance it was O.K. The first loop was approx 80kms of all types of terrain, there was 3 hard/easy choices along the way, I did the first hard but took the next 2 easy I was pretty rooted from the ride the day before and was suffering some serious arm pump.. Great fresh singles and twin trail, run over some poor bloke in the singles that had crashed in front of me, unfortunately it was over him or me into a tree I decided he was a bit softer. He was O.K. I think.
The second loop a bit shorter at 50kms but rocky as hell, I would say 40-50% of it was riding in rocks which I hate there was a defined line through the rocks from the other riders but it was still hell. There was some decent single towards the end that made up for all the rocks but by that time I was too knackered to really enjoy it. All up a great weekend that I would gladly partake in again.
Cheers
Chris.
