Langford Park

Today I had my first real introduction to Mountain biking courtesy of fellow Perth twitterers Scott and Dave (@fairy_s and @madrapper). The course was to be the 6hr Enduro course in Langford Park.
I picked Scott up at 7am and we met Dave up there… eventually. A slight misunderstanding on which car park, but it was [...]

Weekend rides

A weekend of contrasts!
Saturday
Saturday I went mountain biking on my own. I didn’t have a huge amount of time available, so through the bike in the back of the car and headed up to Mundaring. I parked just past the weir and rode up the Munda Biddi. Recent rains made some parts of the trail [...]

First MTB Ride

I’m a bit slow on the old blog of late. Been pretty busy at work, coupled with an over indulgent social life over the last week or so has meant no time. Anyway, Saturday I took my new MTB out to the hills for it’s first ride on the dirt. I went up to John [...]

Moral dilemma – Munda Biddi

So I bought the Munda Biddi maps today. I intend to start riding the northern parts on the MTB over the next few weeks. Now, if you’ve read my post before you’ll know I like mapping and contributing to OpenStreetMap. My dilemma is this, should I trace Munda Biddi with my Garmin and map it [...]

Assembling a Mountain Bike

Hoorah! Today my new Mountain bike arrived. It’s been 2 weeks since ordering and I’ve waited patiently for it to come. I wasn’t in any particular rush but once it came today I couldn’t wait to get home and get it assembled.
5 stars to Wiggle. The bike was packaged very well in 2 boxes. The [...]

Pro-Line Bike Stand

I’ve never really worked on my own bike. Because I don’t really know how. But lately I’ve thought ‘Just how hard can it be?’ I also now have 4 bikes and Gina has 1 too so with 5 bikes paying for servicing is going to be expensive. One of the bikes should arrive this week [...]

Equal rights – Equal conditions

As a rule, I tend to avoid Principle Shared Paths (PSP). PSPs are paths that have shared use for pedestrians and cyclists. Yes, pedestrians generally have the right of way I believe, but this post is not to qualify all the rules. Now for my daily commute I use the PSP around the south bank [...]

Hills rides are fun…. no seriously!

The Perth twitter cycling posse minus…. well most Perth cyclists met up for a hills ride this morning. 6am, cold, dark, tired, but ready to venture out into the Darlings. @Madrapper, @durx and myself set out on a route I planned yesterday. It looked great on LCD and I even drove it to check the [...]

New bike

Been pondering getting a new mountain bike for some time. I have an old one bought in 2002 when to be honest I knew nothing about bikes at all. I just knew I NEEDED full suspension. I bought a GT i-Drive 3.0 and then rode on paved roads. Ho Hum.
Now, I live in Perth and [...]

Worldwide routable Garmin Maps

I’ve discussed routable maps for my Garmin Edge 705 before and the way of downloading and even combining with topo maps. Well last week I found another fantastic site where the developer is creating routable maps for Garmin devices. But what makes this better is they are pre-packaged work with Garmin MapInstall and RoadTrip on [...]