Kicked it off from terrigal drive at 830 with reekie ready and waiting so straight up kincumber mountain which was a struggle after slogging it out last night..
A fun day ahead mainly just because matt has not not ridden this 80km loop..
Before to long we were looking at the base of BIG BERTHA.. so much ouch i had to drop it to granny half way up just didnt have the strenght.. we rode the turkey track and then onto the very sketchy cliff track with a big emphisis on dont go right... we gave the strom a miss for how wet it was.. bombed it down to the rip bridge...
Powered it through umina with a 2 laps of a bmx track just to mix it up :) around the end of umina is a track that goes along the ocean on the edge of a cliff with about a 4m drop down to just rocks..dont go left here... a loud WTF comes from matt lol...it was hard for how washed away it is these days... but made it to pearl beach safely.. ordered a very slow coffee and cake...
back on the bikes and back on the climb... up to a look out with views to palm beach and lion island and patonga.. this track then continues to the north walk.... and a walk it is..a solid hike a bike section greeted us... but at the top you enter a very different land.. all rock and dead trees.. your suspension gets a solid workout here.. on our way up to staples lookout the sand attacked our drivechains crunchy and grinding away for about 14kms, stopped to add some lube to matts chain suck problems...once to the top we were back on tar so that helped clean the chain a little.. we turned right into the trail to point claire our last section of dirt so there was no holding back here on the descent..
some footpath and road back to home around 80kms on a sunday morning in 4hrs..
A fantastic ride with water views of inlets and ocean to bad about the sand and mud but thats how it goes...
good times...
just chops...:)
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