Furry friends and favourite fiction
Fun walking in God's fine creation with great friends at Wineglass Bay at Freycinet National Park on Tassie's east coast
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 17, 2009
F WORDS - GOOD AND BAD
Good f words - Friends, having fun, riding fast! Had a great time on Saturday riding with friends at our local trail, until...
Bad f words - flat tyres. I'm fed up with flat tyres. In my two years of downhilling I've only ever had one flat tyre until this weekend when I had two!! First one was on the trail. Something knocked the valve clean out of my front tube! Second one was the front trye again after I'd fixed the first one. And all I'd done was ride around the backyard a couple of times! Aaaagghhh!
Bad f words - flat tyres. I'm fed up with flat tyres. In my two years of downhilling I've only ever had one flat tyre until this weekend when I had two!! First one was on the trail. Something knocked the valve clean out of my front tube! Second one was the front trye again after I'd fixed the first one. And all I'd done was ride around the backyard a couple of times! Aaaagghhh!
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
FACES
"The Changing Face of Downhill"
Revolution, issue 17, p44-45
The latest issue of the Aussie mtb mag, Revolution, has a fantastic 2 page spread of 3 pretty teenage females who raced the Aussie downhill series and championships last year. I watched these girls at 3 of these races. They were pretty and cool! Off track they are just like any other teenage girls. On the track they are pure downhillers. I might be at the opposite end of life to these girls but I'd like to think we are part of the changing face of downhill. The more female faces seen on the tracks and in the mags (riding bikes not draped over them wearing almost nothing), the better. Come on girls! Just get on a bike and do it! It's fun!
The above pics were taken by my son Joel Brady.
Top: Em Hockey at Mt Buller
Bottom: Jaz Rosa at Genorchy, Hobart
Saturday, August 8, 2009
FUN FUTURE
Australian Mountain Bike mag., July 2009, page 10.
There is a photo of a rider dropping off a 2m high ramp. Nothing special about that, except that the rider is female and 65!! Wow! Ursula Berchtold has a job guiding people down Thredbo's downhill run and she holidays in Whistler - lucky lady. And she sure doesn't look 65.
Being fairly new to downhilling, I have often wondered how long I can keep doing it - "at my age". Well, if Ursula can do it at 65, that gives me at least another 17 years - fabulous! That will make me one very grateful gravity granny! What a fun future retirement to look forward to. Go Ursula!
There is a photo of a rider dropping off a 2m high ramp. Nothing special about that, except that the rider is female and 65!! Wow! Ursula Berchtold has a job guiding people down Thredbo's downhill run and she holidays in Whistler - lucky lady. And she sure doesn't look 65.
Being fairly new to downhilling, I have often wondered how long I can keep doing it - "at my age". Well, if Ursula can do it at 65, that gives me at least another 17 years - fabulous! That will make me one very grateful gravity granny! What a fun future retirement to look forward to. Go Ursula!
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