Northern Farms Ride with some Hubbers

Great ride today, was absolutely perfect, except for the heat...otherwise it was a great ride....

Arrived bright and early as was requested by Michelle, 7am...argghhh, but nevertheless I was in a chirpy happy mood and was greeted by the familiar Dirt Rider as I entered the parking area of the Northern Farms....good to see old acquaintances after such a long time.

Michelle was horribly Wink late and only arrived 30 minutes after we all arrived, but the good thing was that no one had to wait for me to get ready like they normally do....."didn't I feel good"

Riders that were there:
Morgan
Cannondale dude!? Name again - i forgot :(
KenMamba
MichH
Dirt Rider
The Thug
Shaun
Angela
SaffaG

The farm wasn't so busy today, nice to see all the families riding out there with kiddies right up to old grannies.....who incidentally were not impressed with Dirt Rider....something he said? Not sure, but all I can tell you is that this old granny shouted back at him "it's because of my age".....nevertheless it was on on and off into the distance, we covered some nice ground and I enjoyed the single track immensely. Most of the ride was pretty much stop and go, but still was quite fun playing catch up on the hills....

We had some bike mechanics "bush style" when MicH realized that she couldn't "uncleat" due tot he fact that she had a screw loose....hehehehe, no pun intended...she was missing a cleat screw....I managed to get her smelly shoe off her pedal after she undid her laces and then we managed to loosen the shoe and the pedal from the cleat! Lucky for me I had a spare screw for her....and we were off in no time.....only to stop 100m down the drag due to me having some broken spokes....dammit!! None of those stops dampened the spirits of the rest of the riders, Dirt Rider, Shaun and The Thug from bunny hopping the telephone pole/log int he path...nice boys.....

The ride ended off pretty much after about 2 hours and we decided to head to "the drop" and then on towards the single track......some were keen to ride the drop, but for some it just wasn't their day and they opted out.....just after I made the drop we headed into the fast single track heading back towards the car park....I guess I was over enthusiastic and heading off after The Thug and Dirt Rider....somehow I ended up jumping a small root, landing and then not being on the correct path.....**BASHHH** that was me did a nice "endo" hehehehe landed head first in the ground and then stumbled around before putting both shoes in the water

Thanks for the great ride and hope we all make it back again soon soon and maybe make it a longer loop LOL or 2.......have fun and have a great week.....Saffa

Where did he go?

Almost two Months and no posts....what a shoddy blog....well, not entirely my fault, but yes, some of it can be placed on me :( I have been so busy working, riding and working and spinning and riding! I have decided to try lose some more kilos and up the fitness level proportionaly...so far so good...lets see how i fair at the next race hey.

For now I am back in SA, Tanzania was a torrid trip, it just pissed me off, the place, the project, the people, everything was just so irritating. Nevertheless I got on the plane, lifted my chin and headed home, back to good old beautiful SA. The house is coming along well, with renovations planned soon, but this depends on the $$$$$....so lets see.

Have a splendid year and enjoy it to the max, work hard, play hard and for all the MTB'ers out their, I hope you don't fall hard :)