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 [...]

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 [...]

Been walking… yes walking!

I didn’t want to risk another ride today with my old dodgy knees, so Gina and I decided to pick a Bibbulmun stage we hadn’t yet done. It wasn’t hard because there are about 50 stages we haven’t done! Actually we didn’t even do a full stage today. We chose to walk from the car [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]