Tuesday 18th November

A rather pleasant night for a ride if you take away the wind that was building up.  After collecting the Cook we met up with the rest of the posse at the top end of Bowenvale Ave.  A good group that included Silverfox, Tinkerbell, Bugs, Phatboy, Helmut and for a change we also had MacGyver with us.  After chatting about Phatboys problem with his carbon wheel we rode up the shingle road.  This has a couple of steep grunts in it and you also have to be careful of riders coming down.  We reached the crossing of the creek in a flash really.  Some gasping of air and we all set about attempting to cross and ride the first stretch.  Not a lot of success and it was made worse by the fact if you did make it everyone would of been in your way and you would need to dab anyway. :) I did a good Nydia showing and casually walked across with a dapper smile on my face.  Then we headed on up.  Some having more success than others.  My worse ride up this track for ages.  We regrouped at the fence and realised the wind was pretty gusty up here.  Off we set.  Some rolling well while others felt they were not doing so well.  Got better and better as we went and then regrouped at the bottom.  Chatted some more and then set off for loop 2.  Much better climbing, MacGyver blew air into his tyre along the way and I rode the creek but dabbed on the otherside.  A few cleaned it but once again there were lots of dabs.  The climb up was much better this time and once we regrouped at the fence the order was organised and off we went.  Much better ride this time for all of us.  Caught a couple of slower riders on the way down. 2 loops complete and although we had plenty of time some of us were heading home.  Helmut, Tinkerbell, Phatboy and MacGyver headed up for a 3rd loop while the rest of us headed off.  Nice liotle loop that we should do more often I think.