A welcome relief today with the temperature down to 24 degrees after a few days in the 40’s. We got away just before 9.00am from Pop’s place at Blakeview and headed into a strong head wind along the usual route to Hampstead Gardens. After a water refill and a muesli bar we did a loop… Continue reading Last Ride for 2019
I had a fantastic Christmas, thanks to Mum, Dad, all of my family and of course Santa. It is going to be a hot week ahead with today at 35 degrees. This morning we left Virginia around 8.45 and did a loop on the bike track near Gawler then down past the RAAF Base. Our… Continue reading Boxing Day
Today Pop still had a bit of a sore back so we decided to have a little easy ride so Mum came along. She road Pops Merida road bike, first time she has ridden a road bike. We left Blakeview and just headed down to the bike track. It was a nice calm morning and… Continue reading A ride with Mum
School finished last week and I began the first weekend of holidays being sick not a great start. Because I was sick on the weekend Pop and I planned to do a few rides during the week but if you live in Adelaide you would know how bad the weather was with 4 days in… Continue reading School holidays
This weeks riding started with a mid week ride with Pop on Wednesday evening. After tea we rode from Virginia through Angle Vale onto the bike trial to Bunnings Crossing. A quick check of our stats, 18 kms just over 43 mins, we turned around and went back home via the same route. Pop said… Continue reading WOW check out my new bike
We left Blakeview this morning heading for Golden Grove to tackle some hills. When we got to Edinburgh we looked to the left and all we could see where dark clouds so we looked right and saw blue skies. Thinking we could avoid the rain we decided to go right and just leave those hills… Continue reading Wet Wet Wet
Saturday morning leaving from Virginia we headed towards the City it was a nice morning into a head wind but the sun was out. After calling in at 99 Bikes we met Mum and the crew at McDonald’s Collinswood for lunch it was crazy busy because it was McHappy day. Then we headed back north… Continue reading Saturday & Sunday
Leaving Blakeview this morning it was good to see some nice weather and not much wind. We headed down past the RAAF base where people were getting ready for the Air Show and our usual route to Hampstead Gardens to refill our water bottles. The wind had picked up by now, head wind for the… Continue reading A busy day in Adelaide
What a perfect day for a ride, we left Virginia and headed through Angle Vale to the bike track to Gawler and then onto the Barossa Trail that takes us all the way to Angaston. We were interested to see how we would go today because we had this same ride in April just a… Continue reading The Angaston Run
Yesterday we were all pumped up for a big ride but the wind was howling, we waited a couple of hours and because the wind didn’t give up we decided to abandon our plans. This morning we went to watch Dad compete in the Static Monsters Strong Man competition. Dad did a deadlift of 337.5kgs… Continue reading Last minute ride
Riley’s Big Ride 