punter’s perspective

Round 2 of my VIP Experience rides went off with a bang once again (not literally, I don’t need any exploded bikes). We were fortunate with weather leading into Round 2 as it rained a lot and with the temperature beginning to drop, the water wasn’t evaporating. This made for one of the wettest VIP Experiences I’ve ever led but that just made it all the more fun.

I have a plethora of tracks at my disposal so finding some that are dry enough to nail over 100km of singletrack in a single day is no problem. They also lead to some of the best views of the Blue Mountains you’ll ever find. That being said, you probably won’t find some of them because they’re a secret!

I like to gauge the group in the first half of the day and see where their skill level is. So, I mic’d up my sweep rider using a set of Cardo headsets so he could constantly give me feedback on how everyone is going. After an hour or so on our test loop going back and forth on the different capacity GASGAS machines we hook straight into a little loop that takes us into some pretty tricky country. Think tight rocky climbs with tree roots everywhere and no way off the main line. If any of the group can’t get through this