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 [...]

Running a Marathon

I love my cycling. I hate running. I’ve never liked running. I did the Great South Run in the UK in 2002, untrained, unfit and overweight, but managed it. In fact it was a bit of a family event with my sister and brother-in-law running it too.
OK, so we weren’t International runners and we weren’t [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Buying a bike mail order – Lessons learned

Anyone who reads this regularly – if indeed there is anyone who reads this regularly – will know I recently bought a new Focus Raven Expert from Wiggle.
The Focus range aren’t available yet in Australia and certainly not in Perth, so I didn’t have a local price to compare the deal against, but it felt [...]

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 [...]

Tough week

Had a pretty tough week this last week. Off work for a couple of days with a bad migraine, then today I went for a typical ride around the river, but pulled up with a recurrence of my knee pains.
I’d set out with Cyclemania group. There was a low turn-out due to the early rain [...]

Combining Maps on Garmin

I know I’m meant to write up a review of the shiny new toy… my Garmin Edge 705, but I’ll use it for a couple of weeks and then write up after I’ve used it for a while. However, you may be aware of my passion for OpenStreetMaps and so I bought the Garmin without [...]

Mr Grumpy goes to the hills

Today was another venture back into the hills with Craig. I was feeling up for it and chose a route off MapMyRide that another local cycling group are intending to ride tomorrow (no I won’t be doing it again tomorrow!). I uploaded the route onto my new Garmin 705 (that’s another post) so we could [...]