What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!
- Thread starter Minlak
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wkkie
It's Not Easy Being Green
Roundup will fix most of that.
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Labcanary
One potato, two potato, click
You don't like my courtyard garden?
Art Vanderlay
Hourly daily
So hospital this morning, X-ray of wrist shows no break or fracture. Due to pain and being scaphoid, plaster & sling for a week. CT scan in a weeks time will determine if there is a fracture. Apparently they can take time to appear.Crash and snap. Wrist not to good
pink poodle
ここには見るべきものは何もありません
Art Vanderlay
Hourly daily
It is now
Define garden?You don't like my courtyard garden?
slider_phil
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Awesome! I was at the Otway's again for this years Odyssey and due to a lot of factors, it was the first one I haven't ridden myself in years. Fomo was hitting me HARD. Wife did the 50 and my son the 10.
But, your young fella and mine must have been riding close to each other. Same boat, I cant seem to get him to come along for a weekend ride so other than riding to school each day, he doesn't usually seem to interested. But after this years Odyssey he seems a lot more keen. Hopefully it sticks.
ausdb
Being who he is
Found both green valve caps so crisis was averted then took the Hallion to visit his grandparents farm yesterday.
Moorey used to like posting pics of bikes on ovens, I think I'll start a new trend of bike on roof.
The eagle eyed will spot that yes, there is a rear tyre on the front but it came with the wheels and was free so it will do for now.
Quick question time, can someone please remind me what size shock this bike uses? I think it is a 200x57 but the Monarch did the negative chamber suck down trick yesterday and I can't see the numbers on the shaft at the moment and need to see if I have a spare I can swap until I get a kit to service it.
Moorey used to like posting pics of bikes on ovens, I think I'll start a new trend of bike on roof.
The eagle eyed will spot that yes, there is a rear tyre on the front but it came with the wheels and was free so it will do for now.
Quick question time, can someone please remind me what size shock this bike uses? I think it is a 200x57 but the Monarch did the negative chamber suck down trick yesterday and I can't see the numbers on the shaft at the moment and need to see if I have a spare I can swap until I get a kit to service it.
Labcanary
One potato, two potato, click
ausdb
Being who he is
Thanks for the offer, I'll check the black hole (shed) tonight. The Spider I just bought for a rainy day because I thought the Spitty was too small has a 200x51 and came with a spare which I guess would work, with reduced travel.
Looking at the pic of him on the bike I think the sizing is pretty good for now, oh well I have a spare fire when he does grow.
Labcanary
One potato, two potato, click
They grow like weeds. He'll be on the spider in no time.Thanks for the offer, I'll check the black hole (shed) tonight. The Spider I just bought for a rainy day because I thought the Spitty was too small has a 200x51 and came with a spare which I guess would work, with reduced travel.
Looking at the pic of him on the bike I think the sizing is pretty good for now, oh well I have a spare fire when he does grow.
smiffy
Likes Bikes
I did the 50km for the second time, and managed to beat last years time by 20 minutes. I made all the climbs and didn't cramp which is a achievement in itself, but still bit was annoyed I didn't finish in under 3hrs.
It was not without its race day issues like ghost shifting middle gear and dropper post decided not to return without a bump on the saddle.
Also copped a bit a fair bit flak/cheek from a few guys for wearing flat shoes in a xc race, only for a rider in front of us to fall over still clipped in when the Yaugher conga line stopped
.Fortune favors the brave, i didn't have enough trail speed and braked too much into the loose berms, skating the rear around the red carpet decents. Certainly not a fan of the log roll overs either.
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
Should probably go in the LTIH thread, but it's relevant here.
Based on my google maps calculations, the "97"km Odyssey, that was actually 108km, had 46 km of gravel road riding.
Based on that, if I do the 50/30 combo next year, I'll probably do just as much single track as what I did this year.
Based on my google maps calculations, the "97"km Odyssey, that was actually 108km, had 46 km of gravel road riding.
Based on that, if I do the 50/30 combo next year, I'll probably do just as much single track as what I did this year.
The Duckmeister
Has a juicy midrange
Sounds rather like the old Wombat 50/100km - huge sectors of gravel/fire access road with a few bits of singletrack in between. I never tracked the mix, but they'd have been pushing 50% grovel roads. Kind of why I subconsciously preferred the time-based Endurance (true origin of "enduro" format; although the overall ride time was similar (3-hr/50km, 6-hr/100km), the shorter lap format usually had a considerably higher singletrack proportion, with only one or two short grovel sections to grab a feed & drink on each time around,
slider_phil
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Last year I did the 50km MTB and followed up with the 50km gravel the next day. The 100km MTB is nice to tick off a list, but the 50km MTB is a decent course. Gravel course was pretty good, 30km of climbing followed by 20km on descending (mosty)