The fountain of hurt 11 Aug 2013 | 01:31 pm

Somedays you need to go for an exploration ride where you don’t find anything awesome and spend your whole time in the wrong places, in order to be able to appreciate truly great trails when you stumb...

Untitled 7 Aug 2013 | 03:38 pm

I managed to sneak a couple of hours today to go looking for new trail. I found some bits and pieces. Even a typical rock…? There is a reason this bit isn’t in the guide book. It’s proper HuRTy. Rip y...

Broken Kona Unit :( 4 Aug 2013 | 01:35 am

All good things must come to an end. I’ve had the little unit for about 11 months now it is no longer fully rigid. It now has several inches of lateral travel in the rear spelling the end of that fram...

Fat & Sandy 26 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am

Making friends: Bulga to Sheep Skin Hut & return 3 Jun 2013 | 12:41 pm

Sometimes when you plan a ride a couple of weeks out, everything lines up and it is winter sunshine and cloudless skies. Other times, you look at the weather forecast with 4 days to go and realise it’...

Fifth wheel 27 May 2013 | 05:15 pm

When I was a child at the christmas dinner table, i’d pile more and more food onto my plate. The growing mountain of food only being contained by my Nan who would caution me with aged wisdom “Be caref...

How to HAB on the Big HuRT 25 May 2013 | 04:22 am

There have been lots of things written about cycling over the years, however not very many of them apply to the Big HuRT. In the immortal words of AK “It isn’t a mountain bike race. I don’t know what ...

Exploring 22 May 2013 | 02:27 pm

This is a photo dump from a quick exploring trip around Bulahdelah. I ran out of light in the end and had turn around before I wanted to but not before I stumbled into some amazing trails and found se...

2013 AZTR: What worked & what didn’t 11 May 2013 | 02:01 am

Here’s a few thoughts about what I got right and what I got wrong: The stuff I got right: 1. Tyres – Maxis Ardent EXO 2.4 up front. Maxis Crosmark LUST 2.1 out the back. Rock solid. Zero tyre issues –...

2013 AZTR 300: Day 3 9 May 2013 | 03:16 pm

On day 3 I awoke in in the early morning twilight and packed my things in the receding greyness. I tried to find some enthusiasm to eat the leftover sandwich from last night although chewing seemed li...