The Cup Cake Ride

Tomorrow whilst we're out on the Saturday Morning Smash, Ron and Renee from Craig's Bakery will be busily making a tonne of Pink Cupcakes to raise money for a close friend who is currently battling breast cancer - In an act of generosity, all funds raised from the sale of the Pink Cupcakes will go directly to assist with the ongoing costs of care for their friend.

Please show your support and wear a little pink on tomorrow's ride and devour a cupcake (or two.....) when we arrive at Craig's.

The Cupcakes will be on sale from 7am to 12pm tomorrow.

The Summer Sunday

It was a small, but "quality" bunch of riders that rolled out yesterday morning on the Sunday roadie ride - everyone even managed to have their knicks on the right way, which was a great start to the day!  

Frenchie was in heaven, thinking it was a lovely summer's day rolling along in just a summer jersey and giving us all a lesson in French at the coffee shop..... "Cul-De-Sac" will never have the same meaning ever again! 

The Dirty Rats lived up to their name, arriving at Craig's completely covered in mud, doing skin-fold fat tests and sporting one smashed phone screen and a broken derailleur - there's never a dull moment in the Rat Pack.

The 8:00am L Plate ride had a good turn out, complete with Mick B and Coach Carter making a prayer to the Trail Gods before the start - just kidding, they were just doing some stretching laying all over the grass.  The group split into two after a lap around Wendy's with the new riders staying on Wendy's for a lesson with Coach Carter and the not so new riders heading up for a lap around the Sunshine track - complete with an Over-The-Handlebar-Dismount by Zulu.... more coaching needed perhaps Zulu???

Saturday Morning Ride - Time Change

As the season has changed, so has the time of the Saturday ride...... ha - we could star in our own TV show with an introduction like that!  

Actually, after the effort on the last of the summer time Saturday Smashes I'm damn sure we would make an awesome TV soap.  There was the bunch evil guy, Hef - lead character of course. The Damsels in distress, SpyCat and Blogmistress - who REALLY WERE in distress, the bunch was going too hard.  The Hero..... was there a hero to rescue the Damsels in distress???? Nope, I don't think there was.  Plenty of extras though working for the Evil Hef.......

Sorry, I got a bit side tracked.  The purpose of the post is to let all the riders know in M1 land that the Saturday rides now leave at 5:30am from Craigs at Sunvalley.  Winter woolies aren't quite needed yet, but it won't be long.

Don't Forget!

The Hard Men of Gladstone

"Look, here comes the rest of the Peloton, 'Le Autobus'."

The Steady Sunday

Everyone in M1 land was in for a bit of a easier morning this morning after yesterday's little hit out.  On the roadie ride there were a couple of new-old riders (Croz and Drop Bear) and a new-new rider (Charmaine) to complete the morning.  

It was a leisurely roll around the circuit but somehow a few didn't make it to the brew shop??? Super short cuts perhaps???

Steve received his initiation into the Dirty Rat clan with an over-the-handle-bar-dismount down Hayden's Hill on the 5am MTB ride. Ahh, the State Forest is such a great place for Dirty Rat initiations to take place.... makes me recall my own initiation when Pengu made the remark "one more little hill Kate" - I don't know what kind of "hills" they have in Antarctica, but in the State Forest there is no such thing as a little uphill or downhill!! Initiation complete.

The Post Halloween Ride

Ok, so Halloween may have been a few weeks ago..... but yesterday the Tantrum Throwers were at it again... smashing Pumpkins (aka single bikes) on the Saturday Smashfest.  Some Pumpkins were that smashed on Sunday morning that they A)  Drove to the ride (Mr Anderson), B) Didn't even turn up for the ride (The Pied Piper), C) Didn't do Mt Bindello (everyone that did turn up!) or D) Turned up Phillip St and took a short cut to the coffee shop (SpyCat).

Yes, Mr Anderson, I WILL pay for it when I get back onto my single bike - but I tell you what, I'm having the time of my life seeing you boys suffer!

Unfortunately, we didn't manage to average 38k/hr for the ride.... but at 33.5k/hr, I think the proof was in the pudding by the time we got to the Bakery.

The Saturday Rides

It's that time of year boys and girls - actually we're a little bit late this year - for the Saturday morning rides to swing back to the Saturday Summer Smashfest Rides.

From this Saturday, the bunch will start rolling out at 4:45am from Craig's Bakery at Sun Valley.  Riders will have two options:
1.  Hitters:  about 90ks in total.  Turn around point this year will be about 10ks out along the Boyne Valley Road.  We've abandoned the Kroombit tops road due to road works.  
2.  Kitty Soft Paws:  about 60ks in total.  Kitty soft paw riders will swing off at Taragoola road just through Calliope and make the return trip back into town in front of the hitters.

The aim of the ride is to keep the whole bunch together until Calliope.  After that, the Hitters are free to destroy each other as they will - may the strongest riders survive!  Hitters caught smashing the Kitty Soft Paw Riders before Calliope will be banished to the small chain ring and must pedal with one leg for the remainder of the ride (Note:  The Blogmistress' decision against all Hitters will be final and no arguments shall be entered into!  I can see a lot of one legged pedaling happening this weekend!). 

Both groups SHOULD arrive at the brew shop around the same time.

The Pie Rides

Today was all about pies - and of course the Drop Bear living up to his name.  There wasn't many of us on the roadie ride... only 5.  Baby Wex has some explaining to do, after his no show.  Let me tell you Baby Wex, Papa Wex absolutely smashed it this morning - including a few extra Haddock repeats!!  See what you missed???

So the roadies arrived at Craig's first and Paul (aka Daddy Long Legs) comes out with a pie.  Correct me if I'm wrong but it's a ned kelly???  And apparently, this is the way you spread sauce on a pie.  To me it looks like Daddy Long Legs was just looking for an excuse to play with his food!!

About 20 minutes later, the Dirty Rats ride in, with Drop Bear hobbling along at the back.  Not only did Drop Bear manage to have one off, he had two offs of similar fashion.  Despite the lack of claret, Drop Bear did actually look a bit worse for wear - don't forget to send me the photos when the bruises come out!  And then there were the pie-s.... This is how the Dirty Rats do it, small and petite.  

The Launch Ride

Yah!  It's finally getting warmer - mind you, I'm now starting to notice the magpies lurking in the trees beside the roads so it's not gonna be long for them to be warmed up either!  

The Thursday Morning

Perfect weather!! Who's riding in the morning??

The New Faces

There were some fun times on the M1 rides this past weekend and some new faces to join the bunch.

Welcome to the M1 Bunch Harry.

Jimmy and Inn??

Best 5 am MTB ride for a long time. 8 am L plate ride had two new faces. Jimmy on a 29er Cannondale and his partner Inn on a Gary Fisher Neko. First time I've ever seen a Neko on the MTB tracks before.

The Spoilt One

Ahh Sneaky Pete comes to town and gets spoilt by the ladies at our local hangout Craig's. What's the G.O!!!!!!