You have the opportunity to purchase your own Riley’s Big Ride T-shirt. As the photo shows these T-shirts feature a Riley’s Big Ride logo on the front and the back will have a Little Heroes Logo. The T-shirts come in black only and are available in children and adult sizes. Megan from On Thread has… Continue reading T-shirts for sale
It was wet and foggy this morning but it’s February now and we need to ride so we left from Blakeview ready to go up some hills. We headed towards the Grove Way and up we went in the fog, it was very damp as well. Through Golden Grove and down hill then back up… Continue reading Soaking Wet
Back to school today for another year. Yesterday afternoon Pop and I decided to go for a ride, it was a sunny day but a bit windy. Pop was keen to do as much uninterrupted riding as possible (no traffic lights and stuff) so we left Virginia and headed to Angle Vale, Mallala then into… Continue reading A very special day
What an exciting day! Very early start for Mum, Dad, Toby, myself & Pop. We arrived at Pop’s place at 6.00am where Pop had his car all packed with the bikes and stuff, off to Mount Torrens. It was good to see so many cyclists lining up to do the 78km Tour Challenge, young &… Continue reading Tour Down Under Challenge
The Tour Down Under Challenge ride is nearly here so Pop & I thought we would do a warm up ride late afternoon/evening today. Nan & Pop were already at my place today and being a Wednesday we hoped to catch up with some of the Gawler Wheelers on the Stuart O’Grady bike track. So… Continue reading Warm up ride
On Friday night Pop and I went to the Adelaide SuperDrome to watch The Track Down Under. It was our first visit to SuperDrome it was great and I really enjoyed seeing the racing live, I have watched on TV but didn’t realised how much the track sloped and the speed that they got up… Continue reading Busy weekend
Today we visited Little Heroes Foundation and met with Jan and Zane Kirkwood from Sturt Football Club. A few months ago Zane road his bike (ran & skateboarded) from Perth to Adelaide to raise money and awareness of Mental Health. Zane partnered with Break Through Mental Health and now together with Little Heroes Foundation both… Continue reading Meeting Zane
What a day; we set off early this morning (7.00am) from Pops place at Blakeview with the intention of doing a long ride. We went down to the Stuart O’Grady then did a loop towards Gawler just to add extra kms, turned out it added 26kms. Knowing there was a men’s breakfast at the Church… Continue reading My First 200kms
What an amazing change in the weather today...coldest January day on record, just 16 degrees. Pop and I decided to do a quick Sunday afternoon ride from my place at Virginia. We went through Angle Vale onto the Stuart O’Grady bike trail to the top of the RAAF base then headed back home. Perfect conditions… Continue reading A quick Sunday ride
We left Virginia this morning just after 8.30 for our first ride for 2020. I was a good day for a ride except it got a bit hot as the day went on. We headed for Gawler then onto the Barossa trial all the way to Angaston. Along the way we stopped at our favourite… Continue reading First Ride of 2020
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