Around the Bay in a Day

Hey Andrew,

That sounds like fun! I'd have to get a mountain bike as my tyres would sink into the sand never to be seen again!! I know it would be tough conditions but ... I still know what pain awaits on Sunday and it's no walk in the park.

Thanks for the best wishes.

Viv

Yep - it is a mountain bike event really - although it has been done on a tandem and on a BMX.

The sand was *soft* 9 foot vertical face soft tops on the Eastern-most dunes.

Simpson has the lot - sandhills - about 300, clay pans with that fine talcum powder stuff (including deep ruts of it), salt lakes, gibber plain, corrugations - big, small and everything in between - and last year, it included one day's mud and a few inches of water.

(oh - I forgot - a few meters of bitumen when you get to B'ville).

Cheers for now
Andrew - watch out for those Sunday drivers 'tho.

Thanks for the good wishes Willem. Those 45 minutes on the ferry are going to be bliss!!

Viv

yes its JUST long enough for the muscles to start to tighten, so make sure you are moving and stretching

Thanks for your concern Footloose and yes the seat is padded - on the bike I mean!!

Viv

Viv, I rather gathered that it would be the seat. I couldn't imagine too much padding on anything else for someone as energetic as yourself.
Experience from my youth tells me that blisters on the derriere are not a good thing.
As a teenager I had a big splinter go into that portion of my anatomy. Try as I might I couldnt reach it, had to go to the Dr.
The Dr turned out to be a lady. Oh the shame and embarrassment !

disregard, you are already taking the ferry...