Ultra Cycling. Just Go for Miles
Sunday afternoon, Tallarook roadhouse south of Seymour, Victoria on my way back to Melbourne and hoping for some fried food to provide some diversionary therapy for my liver after a big night out. A bike rested against the window outside the entrance. I say to my mate, "I'll ride back to Melbourne and you can give the rider a lift". The first thing that struck me was that this was no ordinary bike with 80/73/53 front chain rings and 11/32 rear cassette. To paraphrase Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, "that's not a chain ring, that's a chain ring"! More like something out of an engineering workshop. To put that in perspective 53 is the upper end of the biggest chain ring on a standard off the shelf road bike. This bike is a beast in it's own right. The rider appeared. "How far are you riding today I inquired?" 470km was the reply accompanied by a brief outline of the day's activities so far starting in Melbourne