Flying Eggs

Our ride was eventful.

A group of 4 men hid behind some shops and threw eggs at us as we rode through Long Jetty.

At Bateau Bay, a P plater was swerving across the road, we caught up with a rider whose mate was clipped by that rider. Took him into the bunch and delivered him safely to Newcastle.

Other than that – a great ride!

Danni

In other news

Firstly, thanks yet again for an amazing event! This was my 5th overnighter, and I loved every minute. Even the awfully painful ones!

No real stories to tell, other than the fact that I was blasting disco tunes on my bluetooth speaker for the climbs at Mount White and Calga and a lot of people seemed super grateful for the motivational music. That, or they were just trying to be nice

. I know they helped my spirits anyway.

Additionally, Chris fixed my bike issue at York Lane. I was so worried I’d have to bail given I couldn’t shift gears, but he came to my rescue.

Have attached the photos I took. Again, thanks for everything!

Jase

Some good friends and I have done this ride twice before and were looking forward to a third time but an unfortunate recent accident left me with a broken arm.

The solution (obviously) was to ride a tandem. You don’t need two fully functional arms if you’re not steering, right?

The usual stoker for the bike we selected is a 10 year old girl so we had to make some modifications including a longer seat tube, additional grips and, most importantly, longer cranks. The cranks we selected had a much bigger front chainring so we had some minor issues with the chain and front derailleur but nothing too much to worry about.

Generally there were no problems at all for the first half of the ride although the big descents are a little bit terrifying when you’ve got to give most of the controls to someone else. There were less interactions with local wildlife than the previous year but more with local wild life (almost got hit by a lady driver who was looking out for ghosts and not cyclists).

Sax

Thank you very much for the great event and the stop at Mt White which was highly appreciated!

Overall, the ride went very well but I had one minor incident with the Hoons around Moonee, I was hit with a plastic water bottle thrown from a white VW transporter, it just hit me on the back so no impact, Artem Chupis was behind me and witnessed it.

I heard later that someone was knocked off by one of these hoons in the same area, by a grey mazda 3 but assume you have already been made aware of this so good to mention my incident if speaking to the local police.

I’ll be encouraging more of my mates to give this a go next year,

See you on the road

Thanks,
Frank