Bayview Ride Summary 21/01/2018
Hi Folks,
This ride was a little different as it was an away ride on what has been traditionally a ‘local’ ride day – normally we do the away rides on Saturdays. Michael organised a rookie ride in Parklands for those not up for a drive south.
With the ride start at 8:15AM everyone could basically leave home at the same time but drive an extra hour or so – this seemed to work out okay so we might continue with it, although it does make the ride a bit warmer but plenty of water fixes that.
Arriving at the German Church Road entrance we instantly impressed with the trail head facilities – bitumen access road, huge sealed car park, large picnic shelters, street lighting, fancy drainage – the Redland Bay council has definitely given this place some loving.
Local rider, James, lead the 16 of us through most of the loop which was great because he showed us a few extra trails that I hadn’t planned to ride and he also took us anti-clockwise around the park which made things quite a bit different to the usual Bayview Blast circuit. In the end I think we rode a good number of the available single track which ended up being 30km and 450m of climbing, a little more than originally planned.
Highlights were:
- Going down Sock Puppet and You’re Kidding
- Shooting through Bird Cage and The Maze with their increasingly claustrophobic trees
- Sneaking a peak at the new Oi trail, it’ll be great once it’s hooked up
- Finishing up on Sorceress
Afterwards we drove over to the Pelican’s View cafe for lunch and then made our way back north.
All in all a good blat around Bayview. Thanks for the great trails RATS Cycling Club and Redland Bay Council.
