Well, it was a pretty full-on day! But we survived!!! 70Km, 6500m descending, and very sore arms…! For those that don’t know, the “Passportes Du Soleil” is an event that is organised to celebrate the opening of the lifts in the Portes Du Soleil region to bikers every year. The event covers about 80km, 5

Well, we made it to the Alps all in one piece, and only one bag was lost in transit, and luckily that wasn’t a bike, so no major dramas there!!! It’s fair to say the chalet we are staying in is awesome. It’s an old farm building that is a few centuries old, but has

  Well, it was a splendid weekend up at Melrose. There was a bit of riding, and bit of skills instruction, and lots of wine tasting…..       We turned up on Friday afternoon, set up our tent, and headed up to the Northstar for a bite to eat. It was great seeing loads

  And another day ii comes around! It’s great to see so many of our friends coming back to tackle the second part of our course! The weather was a little iffy to start with, and it was certainly blustery, so much so that we didn’t risk putting up the Escapegoat tent this time, for

  And again the weather gods were good to us! After the appalling weather we had the previous weekend on Anzac day, and a load of rain on Friday, it was a relief to see blue skies on Saturday morning….. 😀      This time we had Tania, Vanessa, Val, Pam, Margrit and Lyndy ready

Wow, and this was a busy one! Luckily the weather was pretty good this time. We had Kathy, Wes, Jane, Roger, Bruno, Adrian and Daniel this week to test themselves on berms, drop-offs, step-ups and everything else we could throw at them!! [singlepic id=1281 w=320 h=240 float=center]   After a quick warm-up, it was game

   OK, and then time for another day 1 course, and this week it was time for Wes, Denny and Helen to have a go….   [singlepic id=1175 w=320 h=240 float=center]   Denny and Helen were dead keen and getting ready for tackling the Mawson Trail on the Outback Odysey, and Wes really didn’t need

  And so, it was another awesome day. This week was the turn of Jackie, Tiffany, Kathy, John, John and Dave to go mad at Eagle.   The day started well with the promised showers staying away, and the only problem was the wind picked up mid-morning, to such a point that we feared for

  So it was time for the first of our day 2 skills days, and luckily the weather was fine, certainly not as warm as it had been! And there was no special Valentines Day celebrations for Deb, she had to come along with me and make sure all the guys had a great day

And so, it was time to forget that the festive season had even happened, and time to focus on 2009. This week we had 3 new recruits-Nicholas, Roger and Lorien, raring to go and get stuck into some skills and riding…..     As is traditional with our day 1 courses, it was firstly time