G'day Mates, So June is quickly approaching and that would make it 5 years that we have been in this awesome country, just a pity about the Australians !!! So after having a cracker of a first year in Aus, with winning the last 4 rounds of the Adelaide MTB club - Winter Series and getting a 2nd place in the Masters Games my world slowly fell about with me smashing up my shoulder. This meant I would have 6 to 8 weeks off the bike which gave me more time to drink beer......and I can drink beer and it showed in my gut !!! So to propel myself forward I went to 2 wheels and an engine which as it stands now is 450 horsepower of pure adrenaline. This meant joining the Ariel MCC of SA and there motto is......thy shall not straightline and they stay true to there word. If I had a dollar for everytime I've hit my head on a branch I would be rich. This is the tight stuff we ride http://youtu.be/1ML9tMcuGuc I even attempted 2 rounds of the SA Offroad champs and let me tell you the top blokes must be super fit http://youtu.be/p1eZSv9r3o4 but due to me starting my own business I had to pull out ( wink,wink,nudge,nudge ) The trail riding ( motorsikel ) is awesome as we would do 150km to 300km of single track in one day but I still was needing my fix of pushy ( bicycle ) riding but had no-one to ride with until I saw on the Adelaide MTB club had befriended a Loius Van Den Berg on there Facebook site, so I started asking this Loius how he got a surname like that in Aus. Hey, you won't believe me but he was a Saffa !!!!! So October last year we met the last race of the winter series where I got my @ss handed to me on a platter as I was unfit, but I felt good !!!!! Well Loius and I are riding partners now and ride places like 80 Acres http://youtu.be/-GXVwwCTqHU which is 5 minutes from home and my favourite training course, I LOVE IT !!! Then there is Craigburn Farm which is 5 minutes in the other direction http://youtu.be/Oj-DbexQVGs and you don't have to pay to ride them !!! I rode my 1st Classic in about 6 years in Feb in Forrest, Victoria. The Kona Odyssey ( I did the half marathon - 50km ) - what an awesome race, the size of the tree ferns, the views, the amount of single track. The 1st race I have finished and said I have done enough single track for the day !!!! http://youtu.be/Jk4QSGsV-zE Well I now have a Giant dually 29" and I am loving it and I am riding my first enduro next Sunday, will keep you posted ! The Punisher ( yes I have taken a cup of cement and HTFU !!!! )
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