Tuesday 4th December

An awesome night for riding.  collected The Cook and drove up to Upper Major Hornbrook where we waited for the others.  Phatboy, Mellonfarmer, Dozer, Bugs the Tinkerbell and Twopot.  The biggest Posse in a while.  We took off up Lower JB.  Steady pace through this awesome uphill then a sharp right onto John Britain the Main clearing little ruts and rocjs as we went.  Out onto the road for a wee regroup before dropping down the road to Cavendish Saddle for our ride up the new Mt Pleasant track.  Good grunt but as it is single track it works quite well.  Tight in spots but awesome wee climb.  Then onto the last 20 m of Broadleaf, over the fence and up to  the start of the downhill we worked on a little over a week ago.  They have changed part of the track already.  This needs to be taken at pace to make it flow but it will bed in quite nicely.  New stile over the fence then flowed down to the top of Greenwood.  We took the section out towards mt Pleasant.  Always more sketchy in this direction but fun.  Regrouped at the road and then reversed the track.  Rode in Greenwood then a most popped in to the gun emplacements before heading up to the towers atop Mt Pleasant.  Most of the track is sweet climbing, a few technical bits, (cleaned these) then at the very top a short carry.  Much better than I  thought it would be.  Over the fence then through the gate before dropping back down to Cavendish Saddle.  Sweet run down here sticking close to mellonfarmer all the way.  A few drops of rain coming in for added excitement.  From here we went back up to John Britain the swooped down Lower JB to be back at the cars by 8.15.  Awesome ride.