What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!

[ausdb]

Took the hardtail out for a bit.
Said hi to some locals.

Haha, some of the locals came across the trail to say hi to us when I took the young fella exploring Middle Earth earlier this week and scared the crap out of him. He wouldn't ride at the front for the rest of the ride as he thought he was going to crash into another one

 

[pink poodle]

A kangaroo sprung up really close (maybe 2m) to me last weekend. I hadn't noticed it crouched at the side of the trail as I approached and was well startled. At first I thought a large wild dog had made a move on me and then that the kangaroo wanted to kick me. Then it bounced off without any form of incident at all. The imagination is a powerful thing.

 

[CHEWY]

Another ride, another broken spoke

 

[ausdb]

Another ride, another broken spoke

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There's only one thing for that
New bike time

 

[Mr Crudley]

Tis reptile season. My bearded buddy is back and not doing a whole lot.

 

[droenn]

"Look At The Pretty Flowers!" Says City Girl About To Get 40 Minute Lecture On Paterson's Curse

More to come.

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lol, but it is going crazy this year....

 

[Scotty T]

Hit the Arboretum. The land was wide but not brown.

 

[wkkie]

Headed out to Buxton and had the first encounter for the year with the slithery ones!

1 minute into the ride on the little loop over the road from the trails and there it was sunning itself right in the middle of the trail. Apparently a Copperhead according to a local.

Trails were pretty good given the recent rains. The clay was pretty slick in some places, but made for some good fun!

Also swapped mud guards with a mate. Mine suits much better now!

 

[ozzybmx]

Took the kids out to Anstey hill to get a practice in for next weekends Gravity Enduro. This is the 'supposed' stage with the most pedalling, the other 2 we did were DH tracks, which ended up with mud on the lens. They only release the stages 2 days before the event but there are only 4 descents worth riding at Ansteys and those were the 4 used last year... so probably the same again.

Shot on Hero9 with Hypersmooth 3.0 boost on but the GoPro Chesty mount doesnt cinch up tight enough on #1 son as hes just skin and bone, still pretty good for a mount that is jumping around. Watck in 4k.

 

[Lazmo]

Had a slack one today. My wife won't ride in September/October due to the Collingwood supporters, and since I've been off the bike for so long while sooking about my hand issue, she shuttled me to five different hilltops all within 5kms of home. 4 of them I'd never ridden before, with 2 of them quite knarly for me. Had the brakes asquealing, and got index finger pump. Walked a few sections cause I'm getting old. Managed to fall over, while walking/scrambling/sliding, in a super steep clayey bit. Pffft. Finished on my local, and was handed a beer when I got back to the car. She's ace.

 

[pink poodle]

Does that enr have much pop to it @wkkie ? Wondering if they are a playful bike up for a bit of send or more pedal and plough?

 

[wkkie]

Does that enr have much pop to it @wkkie ? Wondering if they are a playful bike up for a bit of send or more pedal and plough?

I can't really tell you about the Craftworks. I've only ridden it very short distances, it's too small for me.

 

[fatboyonabike]

Does that enr have much pop to it @wkkie ? Wondering if they are a playful bike up for a bit of send or more pedal and plough?

you know that some bloke in Newcastle is selling one at the moment on FB!

 

[pink poodle]

you know that some bloke in Newcastle is selling one at the moment on FB!

Ha!

I can't really tell you about the Craftworks. I've only ridden it very short distances, it's too small for me.

Ahhhh...they look nice, but also look plough. May just be my imagination though.

Not going to be very similar to that hardtail of yours.

 

[goobags]

Speaking of Marino hardtails, I decided that some loctite was in order after the non drive side sliding dropout came loose halfway down the Ourimbah GE trails. Wiped the chain down too, yearly maintenance done!

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[wkkie]

Speaking of Marino hardtails, I decided that some loctite was in order after the non drive side sliding dropout came loose halfway down the Ourimbah GE trails. Wiped the chain down too, yearly maintenance done!

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How's your clear coat going?

More of mine is flaking off...

 

[goobags]

How's your clear coat going?

More of mine is flaking off...

Small bit of rust under the paint on the chain stay and a fair chunk missing from the head tube from installing the headset that’s not getting better. However I would still order it again. So many comments on how it looks home made and when I can keep up with mates on much burlier bikes it makes me smile.

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[wkkie]

Faring much better than mine then. How old is yours @goobags?

When my dually arrives, it'll be striping and re painting time for the Marino.

 

[goobags]

[mention]wkkie [/mention] 251km (Strava) with most of that being either racing NSW superflow or training for it with the reminder made up of local single track. Hasn’t had a easy life so far that’s for sure. Two of the races were in the rain as well.


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[ashes_mtb]

Went over it with a torque wrench to make sure everything was in spec. Previous owner had torqued the living daylights out of it, comfortably 3x the recommended specs.

Only one of them let go easily....

So now my ability to go riding anytime soon relies on either the local distributor having spares, or a machine shop being kind enough to make me a new one.