I went for a ride today and here are some photos

this picture reminds me of when everyone would hang their sweet fixie on the fences and buildings at the alleycat finish

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How are you all doing that sweet collage layout in Discourse? I tried a simple tryptich, but it just stacked them.

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The fixie dream is still alive.

The Punakaiki end of the Paparoa Track was great. Much easier gradient than the other side with a completely different track surface. Only went to the first hut 2.5 hours in.


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Why TF don’t i live in NZ?

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Fire breathing spiders

No more trolleybusses?

We have the most benign wildlife. Nothing can bite you except the sandflies, incidentally which are most common in the West Coast, where Ive been. They are little midges that can itch, but thats it. Ok, sometimes mosqutios. Australian wildlife is incredible by comparison. Lots of bitey stuff but so colourful and loud. Its true @Orc . They replaced the trollybusses in Wellington with petrol and ev busses : (

The West coast flora is unique to NZ. I got zero photos of the Nikau palms, I was just enjoying myself too much bombing the trails.

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I know :-( Idiots.

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Some pix from my cousin whose not a cousin from the last 2 days. Better than my shitty pix.

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rode home from the bar in an ice storm. glare ice pretty much all the way; my glasses got coated and my sweater was frozen stiff. no spills though; I was careful and the winter tires are legit

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Everyone in NZ is a cousin tho surely

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I’m a little nervous about tomorrow morning, it’s crazy slick right now.

You are not joking. We met a guy at the end of the Pike 29 memorial trail. He had family that lived in the same Ghost town that my mother lived in, Waiuta, and knew all my relatives. I havent lived on the coast for 51 years. He had an mtb built for him in the early 80’s until he could buy an early Gary Fisher.
My non-cousin is actually the step-son of my uncles ex-wife. #SOAP. Hes a fit mofo.

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Ouch. Rang my bell a little bit. I forgot how hard concrete is.

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Oooof. if anything it was worse this morning than last night


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Tarcklebee for predicting one’s own fate

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