as a cx-noob, can you guys tell me what tyres you’re running/rocking?
i’ve gotta replace tyres on my new (used) bike, and i dunno what to get.
rims: giant pr2. clincher. 21mm width afaik.
usual method for me with road tyres is: “how much money have i got? what’s on special at wiggle this week?”
gravel grinding. no fucks for mud/racing.
maybe easier to tell me what not to get.
http://www.fixed.org.au/forums/f36/tyre-off-road-use-20324/
http://www.fixed.org.au/forums/f9/commuter-touring-gravel-grinding-tyres-22299/
http://www.fixed.org.au/forums/f36/fat-tires-40-45-gravel-road-everything-between-31176/
Coupla threads on it.
Anything made by Panaracer is pretty good.
d’oh!
cheers zach.
it has balding rocket ron’s on it now. the guy’s using it for commuting around town.
I’ve done a similar ride to Zach’s but in the opposite direction.
From my home at Salisbury, through suburbia to Beilby Rd entrance of Gap Creek, then up and along Sth Boundary to Centre Road, to Bellbird Grove and out via McLeans Rd and Lanita Rd railtrail to Ferny Grove stn. Train home, quite frazzled.
I suspect Zach is much younger/fitter/skinnier than me, but the climbs in D’Aguilar NP are pretty testing on standard CX gearing (36 x 28 bottom gear). I walked quite a lot of the Centre Rd climb (going north).
If there’s a ride on the day before Pushies, count me in cos it will give me the impetus needed to get a bigger cassette on the CAADX.
My understanding is that it won’t be sealed. Doc, can you point to any statements on the Mt Nebo site or a Moreton Bay council site that says that the road will be bitumen?
Andrew, the triple crankset made it a bit easier, as did the scenery, I’ve got 12-27 on the back which gives almost 1:1 ratio and I didn’t walk anything, would like to try it fully loaded though.
I added the bits to the train stations onto Zachs route. Can’t say I would trust the elevation profile.
I would say balding rocket rons will be fine. If you really want new gravel tyres just find the widest, cheapest, tight knobed tyres you see.
Yeah I’d say closer to 1km of elevation. Note my garmin died between 20 and 21km and there’s probably ±50m there alone.
If you wanted an easier start, you could ride straight down Lanita Rd to the Rail Trail which would cut 4km and a bit of climbing out.
Either way I’m down for the this.
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beat me to it Gordy. I was about to post the same thing … the gist is that the Goat Track will be opening in July, gravel surface, and one way (up!).
(Which never stopped lots of mountain bikers from riding it two-way, but I didn’t say that)
Who?
I must change my name back.
I decided to check this out this morning - most of the reverse route, Indro through to Ferny Grove, but skipping the last bit into Bunyaville. Probably not the smartest idea I’ve had, coming off 2 weeks of a flu / chest infection and doing that. Sadly I think I spent almost as much time walking the hills as I did riding. Running 36/27 bottom gearing, i was struggling at times - I can see where a triple would come in handy.
Looking at strava, the direction Zach did seems to have a little less gradient - maybe not a huge difference, but a few less 25%+ sections. And I think you’re about spot on with your elevation estimate - for the 30 odd km’s I did through the forest, i got just short of 1000m elevation.
The descents were definitely fun though. Look forward to seeing more of these routes.
Bummer, yeah it’s more enjoyable from the Ferny side.
I’ll post up some more routes I’m planning/have done when I get a spare minute.
So inspired by DJ_Glad_Rappa’s overnighter, I decided to ride South Boundary to the top and back then do Centre Rd in reverse.
First off, in total agreeance that from the Gap Creek side is tough, riding up Centre Rd was a hard slog, didn’t walk anything but it’s much less fun than coming from the Ferny side.
Started from the Payne Rd entrance to South Boundary, straight off the bat there’s some climbing, rode up to the central split and continued, trail is a bit less maintained than the lower, still good surface, just lots of sticks and random detritus.
Not many pictures this time, this is the first climb from the Boundary/Centre split
It’s pretty similar to the bottom half of Sth Boundary, more undulations with 5 or 6 short steep pinches
Some undergrowth
There’s plenty of trail offshots, lots of breaks that’ll take you lots of places. After an hour or so I hit Scrub Rd bush camp.
There’s a pad to the left of the fire pit, this would be a good spot for a sub24hr/overnighter, thinking of doing a practice run up here loaded with gear.
Scrub Rd bush camp.
Rode with a rad XC dude for a bit here, he dropped some solid local knowledge about Dundas Rd and a few other things so I’ve options to sus out for more adventures. We parted ways as he went off to crush some other trails.
It’s probably 30 minutes to Mt Nebo Rd, then a quick 1km jaunt on the tarmac up to the cafe, I stopped and had a coffee and a feed. Was too busy talking to the cafe staff and forgot to ask for a refil, was down to 1 bidon by the time I had descended South Boundary. Took a left onto Centre Rd and went down then very slowly up, this was tough work, I had plenty of food but water was getting low, I shot across Mt Nebo Rd, down Bellbird Grove and re-filled at the dunnies in 1 bottle, I’ll post back if I’ve got violent diarrhea or cholera but it seemed okay. Did the short climb up the power line track then crossed onto Sutton Ct, flew down to the Lanita Rd rail trail then TT’d back to Ferny Grove station, refilled bottles and dumped the sus water, ate a mars bars then gently back-streeted my way home as I didn’t feel up to Samford Rd.
The second half of South Boundary was well worth the effort, it’d a bit of a hike (30km return from the Centre Rd split) but very fun.
Ended up 80k or so return with 2km of climbing
Can this be done on a roady with 27mm tyres???
You would have to back off on some of the decents. I’d say the gearing is more important.
Yep, I reckon if you didn’t mind walking bits of it, you’d be alright.
Booking you in for some guided tours in a fortnight or so when my cx/gravel rig is done Zach, you gots the good shit up your sleeves.
Nice work zach!