My internal ‘motor’ is a single piston job.. problem is, I think I may have a blown head gasket. Y’see there is no compression in the cylinder when the trail incline is upward. …and when you live where the terrain is decidedly ‘Himalayan’ it makes riding a single speed difficult. No ticker means a lot of walking. Kiwi John suggested I ‘cowboy up’ a tad but the only horse can seem to muster up these days is ‘shanks pony’. I had a crack at the Taranna State Forest this morning, up Pirates Road and down Camp Road.. well not really down Camp Road, it was mostly up. These two Forestry roads seem to go against the ‘grain’ of the land, not following contours but cutting across them at odd angles. Lots of off camber corners and unnecessary pinches. A local told me that Bullock Teams cut these roads back in the 1880s. Story goes that the oxen were just pointed towards a coup and left to pick their own line through the heavy bush. The animals wove around the biggest of trees and avoided areas wet under foot. This could explain the odd line of road I suppose. Crossed a couple of beautiful creeks swollen by the recent rains and snuck down some overgrown singletrack before popping back out onto the black top a couple of hours after I started. Think I better cut back on the beer and pies and do some work on my engine before September.
Now that looks like it was worth the effort. I’d be up for that & your last one as well.
Lime Bay rated higher on the fun scale, less climbing and more rewards. Some seriously good tracks around the Coal Mines Historic Site.. The Taranna State Forest was 25 minutes of pushing, 3 minutes downhill three times over. Hard work.
Both look good to me, but I’m not giving up on gears.
Right, over to google maps for a look around your back yard.
Looks like fine terrain for single speeding to me 😉