Ride up a hill
Something that’s always good to do on a bike ride is find a hill and ride up it.
Why???
Because hills are the true indicator of your form on a bike. My form? Not as good as Dean’s, but otherwise pretty good.
This pic shamelessly swiped from Les Hewitt’s Twittering. These are four of the seven-strong group (me, Dean, Bruce, Mark) who rode up Mt Tamborine this morning. Not in the pic are Les (behind the camera, Ernie and Nigel who weren’t there yet, delayed by a couple of punctures).
It was a fine morning for a bike ride. We met at Bruce’s, got rolling by 5.30am, and were back all in one piece around 10.30 am. In between we rolled along some pleasant country roads, had some coffee, helped a woman at Mt Tamborine who had badly misjudged a corner in her Tarago and got stuck on some kerbing, and generally enjoyed a humid Brisbane day.
Wednesday morning is mtb morning
OutdoorGaz has posted a compilation of the photos he takes on a Wednesday morning on our mountain bike rides around Daisy Hill and the Eastern Escarpment.
Just the fact that Gaz goes to this sort of effort to celebrate our regular Wednesday morning ride gives you some indication of how much fun it is.
There’s even a photo sequence of me stacking it while trying to climb the Eastern Escarpment (around 3.10 - 3.13).
Tomorrow, we ride
BrizTreadley is my new website about cycling in Brisbane.
This is NOT a training diary, or to record my events history. It’s a place to tell stories of why I ride, and why riding is good.
It is to practice writing-as-advocacy.
Writing about cycling is a bit like writing about music, or art. It’s very difficult to adequately translate a subjective physical experience via words into something accessible and meaningful.
And yet there are plenty of people trying to make a living writing about music. And even some trying to write about art.
I’m not trying to make a living writing about cycling. But I am going to start trying to write down why I ride and what I find to be good about cycling, as part of my contribution to cycling advocacy.