Derby in Tassi

rstim

Likes Dirt
Here's the video from our recent trip.

There's a good chance we are heading back again Dec 2019/Jan 2020.

The boys did a great job riding all the black trails on the hardtails trouty and upper shearpin would be very challenging. They are going to love it even more when you upgrade them to full squish.

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kten

understands stuff moorey doesn't
Here's the video from our recent trip.

There's a good chance we are heading back again Dec 2019/Jan 2020.

What a fantastic memory for the you and the kids. Perfect weather and they were shredding on awesome trails. That brought back so many memories of my two trips to Derby last year and motivated me even more to get back there!
 

rangersac

Medically diagnosed OMS
New trails are causing some carnage. Had a mate up there on the weekend who was in one of five ambulances on Saturday, a single day record!
 

Stredda

Runs naked through virgin scrub
New trails are causing some carnage. Had a mate up there on the weekend who was in one of five ambulances on Saturday, a single day record!
Yeah it keeps the medical services busy that's for sure. Air-Ya-Going is a regular callout:eek:
 

rangersac

Medically diagnosed OMS
Collarbone?
Trouty?

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Collarbone yes, Trouty no. Was apparently guiding his son down Upper Flickety, looking back and giving some advice, and hit a soft patch on a berm. Methinks he won't be living that one down for a while.
 

born-again-biker

Is looking for a 16" bar
Bugger!
I only asked because I was standing at the presentation after the race and the bloke next to me told me about his mate busting his collarbone (Trouty) on the previous day during practise.

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climberman

Likes Dirt
Probably worth a quick summary of my trip to Derby (with a day at Maydena):


My +1 and I just spent a bit over a week in Tassie – drove over via the boat. Mostly Derby with a day riding in Maydena.

Have to say Derby was awesome for us – amazing riding, really well set up, great mix of accom options, good local infrastructure. It’s a model for other areas in my view in terms of a community growth project (as opposed to a private bike park project). As riders neither of us are that crash hot but we get through most stuff. We aren’t really into (capable of!) gaps and airtime. Both like rocky stuff despite not being great at it. Also don’t mind a climb, especially if it has a good reward at the end. I’m on a SC HTLT, she’s on a Bronson. Both a tad overbiked and totally over caring :D Local for us is the Gong / southern sydney, with occasional trips to Thredbo or CBR.

Accom was a combo of camping (free – with good facilities, clean loos, some covered areas, water, next to a lovely river, and $4 showers) and a small cabin behind the shops (neat as a pin, warm, dry, cosy, and easy location). Food was a combo of eat in, coffees out and a meal at the Dorset pub. For a tiny town in the middle of nowhere services were great. A mini-mart / IGA is in the next town west and a full blow supermarket in Scottsdale a bit further west.

We rode pretty much every tagged trail bar the double blacks (detonate/shearpin/kumma gutza), Krushka’s descent and Atlas ascent tracks with a mix of trail and uplifts. The trail maps at key locations are a bit hard to follow, Trailforks is probably the go; the blue marker posts however are really well located and following their guidance pretty much always worked.

Riding scenery is great, which is not always the case for forestry lands. Forests, ferns, rock slabs, boulders.

Up tracks are all really well put together – in fact this is a feature of all the tracks – well conceived, well executed, good consistency.

The Blue Tiers / Atlas day is amazing and a must do. Quality tracks, endless pedalless flow, simply fkn awesome riding, not too much up, lunch at a pub, well organised shuttles. What’s not to love?

Favourites? Roxanne, upper Black Stump, Flickety Sticks in full, Trouty esp the rock slab portions.

I rode the Derby round of the Tas enduro series on the first weekend (it was on and enduro events are often a pretty good way to ride a few good trails and links in a new area). Well run event, nice folks and I managed to avoid the wooden spoon in my category (despite blowing a jockey wheel at the end of stage 2 and doing 3-6 +transitions in 3rd gear singlespeed), and won $100 of free shuttles in the presentation giveaways :D It was hot and I was sure glad to finish in one piece and not melted into the granite. This was a great way to get a good feel for the layout of the area. Despite an event being in full swing huge parts of the area were open to general riding and a bunch of shuttles were in operation. Was also great to ride a lot of things later with more than one gear.

We will be back.
 

JTmofo

XC Enthusiast
Ambulance for a collarbone. Its just a fleshwound. Pussy
I got ambo'd out a few weeks ago. Again...... pussy was mentioned to me on many occasions by my very concerned riding buddies.

2 broken ribs and a crack in my shoulder, along with a bleed in my lung (which is pretty serious as I'm on ant-coags) but I still managed to pedal down from Air ya garn.

First day of a 4 day trip tho... so dickhead more than pussy.

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slowmick

38-39"
Holy shit JT. Seems you can't fly and you don't bounce. How do you get home with injuries like that? Heal up quickly.
 

PJO

in me vL comy
2 broken ribs and a crack in my shoulder, along with a bleed in my lung (which is pretty serious as I'm on ant-coags) but I still managed to pedal down from Air ya garn.
Fark that's crap, especially on the first day.
Did you have your off on Air-ya-garn or Cuma-gutza? Reckon Air-ya-garn has increased the number of ambo call-outs to Derby by a stack. I've ridden it a half a dozen times and on half of those occasions I've come across riders in pain on the side of the track or sprawled across it. It's a great track and really encourages you to get into the air but it claims many victims too...
 

rowdyflat

chez le médecin
Bugger on the first day.
Is it the jumps that are catching people out ?
Years ago a friend went to Whistler for a month but just had to break his ankle on the first day ~!!!
Easy to say now but my rule is to go at 85% on trips, both up + down.
 
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