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Latest blog posts from Life Cycle

Surviving the game part 2
It was just a week after the Mullumbimby pump incident (forgive me taking so long to update), I figured that if I survived that, I should be in the clear for a while. Assumptions of that nature are, of course, fatal, but none of us ever seem to learn from them. So it was totally without this in...
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Published 2 days ago

Surviving the game
There are some rides that are awesome epics, days when you think anything is possible, days when you reach new heights, visit places of amazing beauty and/or pull off superhuman feats on the bike that will stay with you forever. Then there are days when you are just glad to survive the ride and...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Made in Minyon
There has been a relative shortage of epic adventures in my life recently. Last Saturday I took some steps to rectify that with a ride to Minyon Falls, a 7km walk through the rainforest, and a ride home, which left me with 212km on the bike for the day. It had clearly been too long since the last...
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Published 4 weeks ago

Twin Falls, Springbrook
Since it's been a while between posts, and since I didn't do a great deal last weekend as a result of a flood, I'm going to post some pictures here from a day out at Springbrook a few weeks ago. This was a little while before last weekend's downpour, so I imagine things look completely different...
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Published a month ago

The first century
It's perhaps astonishing, but it took me until January 31 to ride my first real century of the year. Some would argue that Tuesday's epic at Lamington National Park, which included both a metric century and a 23km hike in the mountains was more physically difficult, but riding 100 miles (or...
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Published 2 months ago

A northern ride
This might amuse those of you who are sick of reading about rides in the Tweed Valley or Byron Hinterland. The northern end of the Gold Coast isn't exactly a hot-bed of spectacular riding. It's flat, with relatively few trees and the rapidly expanding scourge of suburbia. About the only thing...
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Published 2 months ago

Tosspot of the week
According to this report, there have been 441 hit and run assaults on the Gold Coast in the last 12 months, and yes, the term "assault" is a far more accurate description than the politically correct expression, "accident".441 hit-and-runs on Gold CoastStephanie Bedo January 20th, 2010THERE is...
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Published 2 months ago

The next generation has arrived
The next generation of headlight has arrived. Regular readers of this blog (both of you) have probably tired of my harping on about how wonderful my E6 headlight was, and how it enabled me to take long rides on dark, deserted country roads late at night. There were even occasions where that...
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Published 2 months ago

The downpour
I'm late on this post, but such is life. At the end of last month, we received the first decent rain in five months, a freakish downpour that lasted several days. Of course, I rode in the rain everyday, even though it cost me a camera. Due to time constraints, most of the rides were 100km...
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Published 2 months ago

Housekeeping - links
I am somewhat guilty of neglecting this blog to a degree in recent months, and it has come to my attention that there are pages linking to this site that have not received any reciprocal links. I intend to rectify this when I return from Mullumbimby on Sunday afternoon. If your site is one of...
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Published 3 months ago

My mountain
Did you know that I actually own a mountain? I have quite legitimate claims to be the owner of Mt Nimmel in it's entirety. How? As far as I'm aware, I'm the only cyclist to ride up Mt Nimmel (apart from my riding partner Martin, and he only did it after I conned him into it), but more...
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Published 3 months ago

Restoring the balance
Does anybody in South East Queensland want to know the real reason it has started raining again, after five complete months without it? Some have claimed that it's just that the wet season has started, others have held that a tropical cyclone from Western Australia decided to cross the country...
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Published 3 months ago