Glasshouse Mountains Enduro Ride

On a recent trip for work I decided to leave early on Saturday and visit my Older bro and his family. The basic plan was to go dirt bike riding in the Glass House Mountains north of Brisbane on the weekend before going to work in our Brisbane office.

Dave picked me up from BNE airport at around 8:30am, I was disappointed to see no trailer or bikes, ready to go. Oh well. We did stop in at Springwood Suzuki so he could have breakfast  and a second breakfast for me.

They had some very old school RG500 and Katana1100 sitting on the floor. The owners bikes, for sale at a price.

Siting having a coffee and breakfast a guy rides up on his GS1250 and proceeds to frop it in the carpark infront of about 30-40 people having breakfast. Embarrassing much? Dave took me to AMX superstore for a look. I decided on getting some armour to wear under some lighter clothes for hot weather riding. should be good for the dirt bike and adventure bike.

Sunday morning we were up at 5 so we could leave at 5:30am to head up the Glass House mountains. It was going to be hot today 32°C today. Go early to beat the heat. I liked the sound of that. 

It was really a training ride for me, as I'd never really ridden a proper dirt bike like Dave's Beta or SWM. oth light weight dirt weapons. I'm used to a 250kg Africa Twin, so my approach method was slightly off kilter towards heavy bike.

Getting kitted up and ready to go by 7:30am. Dave took me up some sandy hill to start with, which had my pucker factor already high. I don't like sand if you haven't noticed but man was these light weight dirt bikes so much easier to ride than a big africa twin.

I did a hill climb that would have scared me on the Africa Twin but was a piece of piss on the SWM, made it look easy.

Dave has us ride around on various tracks, I had no idea where I was going so was just enjoying riding along at my slow old man pace. I nearly binned it on another sandy section. After about an hour and a bit I was starting to get the hang of it.

Dave took us into Woodford after about an hour and a half of riding for a morning snack at the bakery. Riding into town I saw the biggest Kangaroo I've ever seen standing on the side of the road along the Golf Course, he must have been well over 2m tall. 

 A sausage roll went well washed down with a Powerade. I had to get a photo by the Leopard tank, that's not something you see everyday.

I swapped after a bit and rode the Beta, the difference between the 2 stoke and 4 stroke was astounding. I didn't find the 2 stroke peaky like I thought it would be, it just went quicker.

After about 3 hours of riding and doing some single track I was getting tired and hot so we called it a day and packed up to go home. I hit the hill climb a couple more times for practise.

We drove down the hill after loading the bikes and Dave stopped so we could have a coffee at the Lookout Cafe. Great coffee and slice, and the views here were also very good.

It was quite hot now and I was glad we were heading back in the air conditioned car. A good morning of riding. Off road riding is so much harder and more physical than road riding. Lots of concentration required. Thanks for the ride bro.