MACCLESFIELD TO DAWESLEY
12th November 2015
We have attempted to get our butts on the bikes on a few
occasions during the past couple of weeks to get this section ridden but life
kept getting in the way. Finally, we managed to find a day that had no other
commitments and so we packed the car with the bikes, drove two cars out to Dawesley,
leaving one car here at the end of this section, then driving back in the other
car to the start of our ride today at Macclesfield. Ok we need to be super
organised to do these day trips and it all worked a treat.
This ride was pretty
damn hard in more than one section. Fun though, lots of fun. The Kidman Trail
is somewhat hard to spot the markers at times and left us once and thankfully
only once just a little off course.
Today’s ride took us out onto mostly dirt
tracks and some private property. The private property was a hill. A hill with
no visible rideable track, just a hill with a fence to follow down, down, down
into a creek bed then up, up, up into the sky…well up. This up, up, up was not
rideable but was pushable.
Most of the way we had a lovely tail breeze but
during one section there was no breeze at all and was quite hot and omg the
little black flies.
We followed the road out near Mt Barker (not the suburb but
the actual Mountain) and out on the Back Callington Road to the South Eastern
Freeway. Under we went and then followed it on the other side on Ironstone
Range Road. Hit some nasty little bugger of hills here that burnt the legs just
a tad.
We finished our ride at Pyrites Road at Dawesley just where we left the
car. 36.6km of riding today with 751m of elevation.
