longer ridge ride, old trails, new trails, new old trails and busted bike bits...
So, after close to a month off the bike I decided it was time to climb the ridgeline behind Eildon city again, this time I headed out on the extended version - heading straight on at the high point above Eildon city instead of taking the left down to town.. man, I'd forgotten how good the next little bit of trail is!! so much fun I went all the way to where it points straight down to the back of taylor's bay/eildon boat club, climbed back up, and took another branch descent nearly down to right arm road, then reversed the whole thing back to the DH track, then found another 4wd trail down to karalikka [?] heights rd. yeeeeow yippee yip!! Some old stuff, some new stuff, some new old stuff, loads of puffing my unfit self on foot up hills I could climb a month ago!
Back at easts lookout, I discovered three things: First, a tantalising-yet-unused-for-ages trail leaving the lookout down a funky looking ridgeline. Second, a nastily bent cog in my cassette... mystfied! and finally, a bent seatpost when I tried to drop it a few inches to 'exploratory descent' mode. Grrr!
Anyway, the seat managed to go down just far enough and my final leg was a pretty funky descent atop the road cutting above the eildon boat club road.. an obviously cut-but-forgotten route, a few tea trees in the face but meh, the clear sections made it worthwhile...
A fun way to take on the one sunny morning we've had in two weeks. ahhhh..
. My phone GPS says it was a 33km trip, took me a bit under 4 hours including a decent rest at the top and repairing a pinch flat on the way down. Probably wasn't the fastest to climb up there but I'm not the fittest, carry a bit a gear; and my bike is around 16kg. I only got my bike 3 weeks ago. It's a 2009 Iron Horse 6point4 and haven't done much in terms of customisation yet (defs gotta change that 2.5" dual ply minion on the front).
