Sun. No rain. What a change. Only eight of us departed from the park opposite the Urunga Hotel at 7.30 on Sunday; the weekends must hold other attractions for the majority of DUBBUG riders as our weekday rides are much…
Category: Reports
29/1/2012 Report
The threat of more rainy weather and as a result of being a little “stir crazy” drove six brave cyclists to take advantage of the break in the weather and head out from the BP Urunga on the Sunday ride.…
22/1/2012 Report
Today’s ride to Coffs Harbour was different in a number of ways. First of all, it wasn’t Bellingen, which is where the DUBBUG seems to have been riding lately. Secondly, the route to Coffs was all along the Pacific Highway,…
Colleen Henry report 81/2012
“Shake, Rattle and Roll” was the very apt theme song for our cycle on Sunday 8 January – that’s exactly what we did from BP Urunga east to Yellow Rock and then back west to Bellingen via North Bank Road.…
1/1/2012 Report
Clear skies, a cool light breeze, and some steady hill climbs – no better way to clear the fog of champagne or other beverages on the morning after New Year’s Eve. The group was big for a Sunday ride –…
Report by GH 18/12/2011
It has been a great year of cycling not only for our group but for cycling in general, particularly with Cadel Evans’ achievements. Not that we are in his league by a long, long way. We have had many and…
Report by GH 12/12/2011
Unfortunately the disease is contagious and Jannine Cowan has caught it from Alan Brighton and led a group of riders astray and were lost on Friday. The rest of the group stopped and waited and waited for them to catch…
Report by GH 4/12/2011
Weekday rides are still more popular than weekend rides, a combination of reasons for this, all reliant on each other, but not one reason alone. Two new riders this week Gary & Michelle Collard, young, fast and full of energy,…
Report by GH 20/11/2011
MAGNIFICENT, MAGNIFICENT, MAGNIFICENT, is the only description of Dorrigo at the moment, and we only saw a small part of it. Our ride was from Dorrigo out along the Armidale road. After about 17km of hills we turned into the…
Report by GH 14/11/2011
Another dry mountain bike ride with good numbers, that’s two dry MTB rides now and that’s a record. Looking at the weather before the ride there were thoughts of much mud and slop, but it never happened. Only 3 for…