Day 12: Stop and smell the Roses

You can ride fast, racing to get to the end first, be on the podium, get the accolades, your name in the history books.....but what if you've missed the roses?

Stop and see...Stop and smell...

Day 11: Weekend Riding

This photo tells about my likes; bikes, breads and boxers.

I love weekend riding. It can be a race, or on the mountain bike exploring a new route. I like the stop overs having a toasted sandwich or a beer after a long hot ride. Like this weekend for instance, first the road bike got loaded into the car and off to Bela Bela for a fast ride. (ok...fairly fast.) Got home, and road bike gets off loaded and in goes the mountain bike for tomorrow's ride. Looking forward to the scenery, camera at the ready.

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Day 10: The art of cycling

What do you see when you look at your bike? Wheels? Saddle? Handle bars? Colour? When I look at my bike, I see.......aaaah a ride. It's not so important the colour (which must be blue, but isn't), or the wheels, or the brand. To me it is the ride.

 Look through the eyes of a 6-year old and see what they see.

Day 9: The Little Green Bike

Visualise: It's the beginning of the holidays or a long weekend and you've also decided to do a bit of a trek. The only thing is, you have to get passed all the traffic before you can start to enjoy your well earned break. Everything is moving at a snail pace, slowly, overloaded trucks, BIG trucks spewing out billows of smoke, sleek cars pushing their noses into the long stream of cars, making your temperature to rise into the red. Then! In front of us, the little green bike! It made my day. Somebody bought their child their first little bike. Cute! I liked the little side wheels all in green. I liked the other bike's clean water bottle, sooo new. They're gonna enjoy that!

Day 8: Transporting your bicycle

Now when you transport your bicycle to the next race venue, it is normally not a problem if you have a rack of some sorts. It also doesn't really matter if the bike is put on the roof, (except when you pull the car into the garage and not taking the bike off) hanging off the rear window, standing tall on the Thule or get folded up neatly to be put inside the car, as long as the bike is comfortable. Very interesting though is when the price of the bike is more than the price of the car, which in my humble opinion is totally correct.

Remember to vote today!

Day 7: Another river crossing

There are many different ways to cross a river. I like the splash through way, others prefer the tippy toe way, others like to wade slowly through barefoot and when on the other side, will sit down to dry feet (I never know where they keep the tiny, dry, rolled up towel), then put cream on and then empty sock and then empty other sock (from imaginary goggas) and then the cycling shoe after adjusting a buckle or a strap.....exhausting isn't it.

Lets face it, a river is a river is a river, it will always be wet! I must say I marvel at those Bison floating bridges they build for the Joberg2c and Sani2c. Now there you can stay dry if you stay upright. 

But, beware of the loose plank bridges and the makeshift bridges and the logs (which is mostly just 1cm too short.) When you put a foot or a wheel on them they turn nasty. 

Day 6: A Newbie's first river crossing

We were all there, looking down into the passing flow of the river, very unsure of what it might do to you and what it might do to the bike. A newbie's first river crossing is normally a push through, feeling elated when arriving unscathed on the other side. I can proudly say that the newbie in this picture has progressed by leaps and bounds. Not only does water not scare her anymore, but also mud, deep sand and a hole in the tyre the size of her pinkie! Vote for her!