frenchman
Eats cheese. Sells crack.
Already gone. They were snapped up pretty quick.
What did you do TO / WITH / FOR your bike today!
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nathanm
Eats Squid
spent the weekend in St Helens riding with Jayne. The green trails are, well, very green. Not too dissimilar to a walking track but good fun regardless particularly at Jayne's speed. I believe the brief for world trail was to make family friendly trails and they have certainly ticked that box. anyone could ride them on any bike, I'd be happy to ride the roadie on it although Jayne did pedal up a roller, clipped a pedal on the fallen tree it was built over and took a little tumble.
Jayne enjoyed herself though, they were well within her skillset and fitness and the promise of cheese at the end of Day 1 certainly spurred her on.
Weather was perfect but the signage isn't and is a little confusing on trail as there are multiple options to shortcut and bypass certain trails. We actually rode further than we intended on day 1 as we just couldn't work out where we were.
The best thing about St Helens is there's plenty of things to do off the bike. After riding we headed to Pyengana Cheese Factory which is a much do, especially for Jayne as she only rode as I promised her cheese. You've also got the pub in the paddock, St Columbia falls and some pristine beaches we walked on dusk. Even managed a quick fish.
Also shot video of the day so not only do we have the "rideswithjayne" instagram and facebook, she'll soon have a YouTube channel to boot.
Jayne enjoyed herself though, they were well within her skillset and fitness and the promise of cheese at the end of Day 1 certainly spurred her on.
Weather was perfect but the signage isn't and is a little confusing on trail as there are multiple options to shortcut and bypass certain trails. We actually rode further than we intended on day 1 as we just couldn't work out where we were.
The best thing about St Helens is there's plenty of things to do off the bike. After riding we headed to Pyengana Cheese Factory which is a much do, especially for Jayne as she only rode as I promised her cheese. You've also got the pub in the paddock, St Columbia falls and some pristine beaches we walked on dusk. Even managed a quick fish.
Also shot video of the day so not only do we have the "rideswithjayne" instagram and facebook, she'll soon have a YouTube channel to boot.
Flow-Rider
Burner
Another Dingo just casually walks out in front of me today on my ride, it was a bit of a surprise to see it in this location so close to suburbia.
I couldn't get close to this one for a good pic as it was very timid.
I couldn't get close to this one for a good pic as it was very timid.
Milpool
Have knuckles, will drag
I did an 8km ride through a koala
reserve here with the young fella on the shotgun seat. It's dear flat gravel pathways but a nice ride, hundreds of roos but no koalas that we noticed. That's double the distance we've done before, he was a bit over it by the end. So was my arse, stupid nukeproof seat is rock solid.
reserve here with the young fella on the shotgun seat. It's dear flat gravel pathways but a nice ride, hundreds of roos but no koalas that we noticed. That's double the distance we've done before, he was a bit over it by the end. So was my arse, stupid nukeproof seat is rock solid.
BT180
Max Pfaff
Where is that?
Flow-Rider
Burner
It's behind the correctional centre on the Sumner Park side, I've never seen any in the area in the whole 40 years I've been here. They must be coming for the kanggas that are everywhere. The two before this were on a back trail at WhiteRock
No, that's out in the ghettos
Chriso_29er
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Rode it to work, not my best ever idea.
Chriso_29er
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Got a bit deeper than expected, but got through. Bike might need a bit of TLC after spending a lot of time fully submerged over the course of the ride ha ha
tkdbboy
Likes Dirt
Flow-Rider
Burner
Sumner Park is an Industrial estate, then you have Jindalee, Mount Ommaney and Westlake above and around it.
Flow-Rider
Burner
C,mon it's not that bad, There's more polite people at WhiteRock than anywhere else I've ridden across Brisbane.
Just mucking around ! What is the ownership of that Wacol bushland e.g. undeveloped private land, or is it a reserve? It looks like a very isolated pocket of bush to find a dingo. It must have traversed some major roads to get there.
Flow-Rider
Burner
Classed as a reserve AFAIK
I would say it did cross roads or followed the train line up but there's a large mob of Roo's that were moved over from other correctional centre near the Wolston park side to the back of River Hills where the old jail farm was.
That section I was on is just a small fire road loop about 3.5kms It's an ex-army ground that floods all the time, the train line goes through the back to Ipswich and backs onto it.
Yeah, it is a strange place to see one but maybe the drought has forced them to move closer to a food source. I would say it's a hybrid Dingo but I'm not an expert. They're classed as pests in Qld and get culled, there was a few at Gap Creek many years ago.
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