[dirt] road bike - Centennial Park, Campbells Bay
The last few days I've been riding the Cross-Check with knobblies fitted to determine if it's capable of finishing The DUAL. Well I know it's capable, more to the point is can whether I can ride a rigid cyclocross bike with drop-bars and relatively skinny tyres off-road for 50km.
With this in mind I've been searching-out every piece of ridable dirt, gravel and grass as I ramble around the North Shore of Auckland.
It's amazing how much is out there when you look for it. Not a lot of technical singletrack but loads of gravel paths and grass for Africa.
So far, so good. After a handful of two hour rides I'm getting a little stiffness in my neck and wrists but no other aches or pains to speak of. I think my hands are slowly getting accustomed to the different angles of a drop handlebar.
I took these pictures of some of the varied riding surfaces I found in suburbia. Most of them are taken no more than 20 or 30 metres from a main-road or housing but you could be in the middle of nowhere.
Pupuke Golf Course
Rosedale Road Wetland, Albany
Long Bay Reserve
Dropping down to Long Bay on the cliff pathway
