Stopping for a chinwag at Whitford

17 riders turned up for Paul Becker’s nearly-four-hour-22km-600m-of-climbing tour of the finest trails in the forest (Paul neglected to mention he was in training for Te Tāwhio o Whanganui…) which had come out relatively unscathed after Cyclone Wilma ripped through a few days previous.

10 riders stayed with us to the end, we had  three punctures, one broken chain, one wasp nest whose inhabitants didn’t appreciate being run over and proceeded to sting those following behind and one fractured right middle metacarpel (broken hand) after a nosedive off one of the forest’s dodgy structures. Apart from that it was a pretty uneventful ride 🙂

Check out Loan Burger’s GPS log.

Some more photos from the ride, courtesy of  Andy Macdonald:

Steep & Slippy at Whitford

Those pine needles are deceptively slippy after a spot of rain

Paul, working up a sweat

Marty showing off his one-handed skills

Stopping for another chinwag at Whitford

Stu shows us how it should be done

Paul lines up Whitford's "Chute of Doooom"

Edd, past the point of no return on Whitford's "Chute of Doooom"

Stu, moments before Whitford's "Chute of Doooom" claimed it's first victim for the day