Out and about Perth-Mountain biking at Goat Farm

Hello world.. my procrastination has reached epic proportion and i thought I should at least blog again to let you know that I am alive and well. Thanks Fred for giving me the nudge that I obviously need to get off my lazy ass and start blogging again.

I’d been bored and not been cycling much since I bought my AE71 corolla. However, while surfing youtube, I came across this clip;

Although it is a BMX clip, it instantly got me motivated again. I chucked my bike in my old corolla and headed towards the hills (Goat farm.) Apparently Goat Farm is a popular mountain biking venue.

Truth be told, I am a very lousy Mountainbiker. I only got into it because some of my NZ friends were into it but shortly after I bought a decent bike, most of them left NZ. I only went to Woodhill in NZ less than 10 times, so my skills were close to non-existant. (one of my friend actually went to Portugal to build a mountain bike track, how cool is that?)

There were downhill tracks at this mountain biking venue, but being a pansy, I chose the cross country route that rode around the park. Initially the trail was pretty easy

But it got progressively rougher, with big rocks everywhere

riding uphill over these rocks proved to be too much for me, i was powering over the rocks until one of the bigger rocks got the better of me and I flew over the handle bars

Unfortunately I did not see that there were barb wires in the bush. Luckily for me only my leg got cut.

I think once I get medicare here, I’ll look into getting my tetanus shot up to date.

Eventually, I reached the top, you can see Perth city in a distance from there..

Going down was easy, I let gravity do its thing until I came across this

Well, unfortunately for me, I took one of the corner too sheepishly (yeap, I applied the brakes when I saw the drop,) i should have harden up and power through the corner. Again, i went over the handle bars and scrapped myself on the top edge of the drop.

Luckily my bike didn’t fall over the edge.

It was then that I started to ride a bit more conservatively seeing that the bike track was very close to the edge

Over the course of the day, I had a few other nasty falls, and more cuts and scrapes

Overall, the mountain bike trail was not as great as Woodhill in Auckland,NZ, but its fun none-the-less . I would do it again, but i guess Its better going with someone else who is better than myself to show me the ropes.

Anyone in Perth keen to head out there? send me a msg.

Tags: bicycle, Exploring Perth, Perth