Riding the Fat Possum

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I love saying that – and I love riding it. My Gary Fisher Fat Possum (aptly named Mans Best Friend) 2009-11-14 Bicycle 008 successfully carried me through today's challenge – 13kms of very steep technical riding through a national park. With mixtures of very fast downhill and lots of big long jumps, to tight technical hair raising switch back descent of a cliff – dropping vertically 400 metres in about 5 minutes straight, to technical singletrail with lots of boulders, fallen logs, roots and twists and turns including several creek crossings and loose rocks, this track was a beauty. We elected to do the downhill direction and have a support vehicle drop us off  and collect us at the bottom. Very wise choice for even the downhill had us exhausted from the constant steering changes and technical riding skills required.

The boys managed to tape my phone camera to my chest (thanks be to duct tape!) and I got these two short videos of the steep descent section. I missed the first third of the descent due to technical difficulties (bumped the off button!). I rode with Michael and Peter and Kitty was the support driver today.

The following links show the track saved in my bikely profile, the course and the elevation profile.

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