The Great Dividing Trail

[passiflora]

Wow, love the bike and the trail pictures look gorgeous, it's bloody raining here today .

Bloody weather can't dry anything out, etc, did get out on the Alpinestars a few days ago, all be it with flu and it was a lovely sunny day.

Can anyone click there fingers say abracadabra and transport us all to these gorgeous trails.....

 

[mountainloz]

i dont think you can beat the Real levers!
i have some red ones that were the best team up to my old XT V-Brakes that i've ever tried, on any bike.... and i build bikes!
but now i'm all hope disc'd up and they are chilling in my tool cabinet

lovely looking bike there, and what a trail, gotta say, i'm a bit jealous

 

[dyna-ti]

:cry: Looks truly beautiful

:cry: :cry: :cry:




Pouring in Scotland


Most of the time

 

[Slow6]

Thanks for the comments chaps

Don't be jealous.. it'll be too hot to enjoy the trail soon enough and it does have its trail side hazards

Take this nice little mound beside a fire road section.. full of red cordial one might be inclined to stomp on the pedals and get over it for a laugh.

 

[Slow6]

...view of that fun little rise from t'other side
They're all through the bush in that area, some a filled in some are covered over with scrub and some you can toss a rock into and wait patiently for the thump.

 

[Konaglider]

:shock: Strewth!

 

[dyna-ti]

Theyve got some of these sinkholes around the hills in Dumbarton :shock:
Not as deep but the sides still are about 10' high with smooth muddy sides,oh yeah,and half filled with water.
If i come across one i try to find a fallen log i can put in it to give a means of escape.
You should try to mark these with white tape or something :? ,not just for your but for everybody's safety.

 

[Slow6]

I would quite literally go bankrupt buying that much white tape. That section of the trail is called Dry Diggings. Literally thousands of these old mine shafts in the area. It would be pretty unlikely that anybody would be out there and not aware of the importance of sticking to the trails. As a boy I used to wander around the bush near my grandfathers farm always with a long stick to probe the ground ahead. I did see a guest disappear up to his neck once, a shaft that had been filled save for the last five feet and was covered over with scrub, down he went unharmed but with eyeballs the size of dinner plates.
I remember watching the local policeman regularly drive down into the bush and empty the contents of his van into a shaft.. most likely just old number plates and tat but to as a young boy I always imagined bags of counterfeit and dead bodies

I have been down one that a mate cleaned out and I have to say it was the one of more horrible thing I have ever done.. straight down a 4'x 6' shaft for maybe thirty feet and then 90 degrees into the side of a mountain as far as either of us dared go, no room to turn around. Yuk

 

[The Ken]

Stunning photo's slow 6 - I love the cliff ride shot along the river... I wouldn't be able to go there.

 

[skinnyboy]

This is why I get pissed off living in Melbourne, all the best trails are miles away! We should try and get a Aus Retro ride happening one day mate.