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I love saying that – and I love riding it. My Gary Fisher Fat Possum (aptly named Mans Best Friend) 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.

If you are a Windows Live Messenger user – you’ll probably find this to be a fun feature to muck around with. I sure did!
So here’s how it works – step by step. Only took me a few minutes.
For this to work, you must have a webcam installed before putting the following steps into practice.

In your Live Messenger, if you click on your display picture you’ll see a box like this…

Select “Dynamic picture…” from the grey boxes on the right.

Then you’ll be looking at a box like this…