Headline: I'm 30minutes ride away from heaps of singletrack
Only 2.5 weeks after moving into our house in Stafford Heights, Brisbane, and I managed to find a morning to go take a morning ride to Bunyaville Forest.
30 minutes from home to the middle of 'Jinker Track' where
Mtb Dirt tells me is a good place to start.
Chicken ride down Jurassic (~6km/h) is a good reminder how long its been since i was offroad - not since Sydney, sometime in 2008 :(. Back up to the road, to see that the Creek Track beginings I was planning on doing look to be closed off, so I hurtle down the next firetrail, to find myself at the bottom, looking at an nice uphill singletrack,
ZigZag?. back up to the road (yup, happily lost, never heard of Dugandan Rd), cross it to spot the entrance to
MiniVan? - weeeee - now riding at a cool 8km/h :), eventually finding myself at Bunya Rd, and wondering which direction to go.
Quick stop to eat a Bananana, wondering if 90minutes riding was too much in my rather unfit state - so I decide to ride towards home. Just as I make
that decision, I pass Jinker track again, and spot another trailhead - mmm, '4'. Sprint down
CreekTrack? at 17km/h - weeeeee (I assume i was too tired to be careful) til i come across a '5' - up Kokoda back to Collins Rd - at least i recognise that..
Ride the firetrail for a bit, hooning down Psycho (what a massive downhill and then steep up) to find '7' Steps which I realise after a few 100m's is too much, so i back out and ride the 30mins home again
Brilliant! I'm guessing I linked up 5-6km's of singletrack totally suitable for my non-level of skill and stamina, 30mins from home. Thats a heck of a lot more than I had in Lane Cove, Sydney - where I had to ride out to Manly Dam and do loops :).
07 Jul 2010 - 06:25 I'm 30minutes ride away from heaps of singletrack