GO WITH THE FLOW

Such is the quality of the terrain, its perfect mud and the beauty of the forests, that it’s started attracting the best in the world.

THERE’S A SWEET SPOT in any sport – a time when everything comes together. For a brief moment you experience nirvana; it could be a perfect stroke in a tennis match when ball, racket and body become a single entity for a blissful fraction of a second to set up a sublime shot. Up in the hills around Tasmania’s quaint town of Derby, 100 kilometres north-east of Launceston, there’s a way you can achieve this feeling for a protracted period, grinning from ear to ear as you hurtle through ancient forest. It’s called ‘flow’, mountain biking’s holy grail – a meditative state that will take you beyond anything any yoga retreat can claim to offer. I’m not an experienced mountain biker, but with just three days in the saddle with Blue Derby Pods Ride I was up to a level where I was able to taste this