Just started to go on Rotor Burns Australian forum and they were talking about trail conditions :-
Hate to be a wet blanket, but things are going to get excessively wet this week all over SE Qld. We are expecting 100-200mm by mid week, moving from north to the south. It’s not going to be a week to ride Nerang, Hinze Dam, Mt Joyce or any of the Brissy or Sunshine Coast locations either. All being well it may come good by next weekend. Thanks for your consideration.

MTFU it’s just a bit of water!

Strewth.

Strewth…

edit: 10 seconds too slow 😕

Bonza!

Beauty mate

no proper rain in tassie for weeks dry as here dust everywhere.

warning several Oz states are bigger than the UK so weather varies

If i had moved out there it would have been to Byron Bay so not a million miles from the rain. Bloody hell could it rain!
It used to annoy me that rides would be cancelled if it rained. They used to cite lightning as being the main factor. Either that or they didn’t like the rain.

Australians actually dissolve in rain

I’d take your four month average rainfall over ours, frankly.

That little shower will just damp down your trails beautifully. MTFU etc…

Australians actually dissolve in rain

True Story.

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How we roll in the wet dust

Nothing but dust in Southern Tas as well.

Good to hear John, clear of the fires? Was keeping an eye out at the Blue Dragon for you.

Plenty of new dusty trails up north to explore now

There’s a cloud in Perth and I felt a spot of rain. It’s been a warm few weeks. I have a feeling it’s going to storm at around 2130 as I finish my shift and cycle home though.

Crikey!

Dust getting on my nerves here in Vic. A bit of rain to dampen down the trails would be nice.

For the Vic guys where to ride for a weekend, sailing over on Friday and heading up to Buller via Wagga (I know family stuff) back in Melb on GP weekend 🙂

potentially you yangs and somewhere else…

anyone doing Bike Buller?

Blimey, the Ozzies are getting soft.

What the problem? – it’s warm water! 🙂

expecting 100-200mm by mid week

We had more than that before breakfast!

No fire around here, Mike, but they’re a worry. Didn’t get my shit together in time for the Blue Dragon this year.
I used to go to Wagga for uni a fair bit. Beechworth was good for a couple of hours riding & not too far from the highway. Then I discovered the trails at Albury. Even better when you hook up with a local. There’s also a good xc loop at Wagga.
A bit further off the highway is Woodend & of course Mt Beauty & Bright.

Cheers John Wagga XC could be the ticket for 1/2 a day. Beauty & Bright so long as they are away from fire could do us for a trip out from Buller.

The main thing I miss about uni is a free trip up there twice a year.

Mike – if travelling back from Buller via Alexandra you could always pop down to Marysville and ride Lake Mountain and Buxton? Both fairly short (15km’s each) but only about an hour or so from each other so you could fit both in.

I think you guys are missing the point trails are often closed due to rain in oz to protect them. Which you could not do in England as you would end up never riding.

yep and I’m now considering fitting an airline in the garden to clean the bikes with, you guys have no idea how tough it is….

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I think you guys are missing the point trails are often closed due to rain in oz to protect them. Which you could not do in England as you would end up never riding.
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Speaking as an SEQ local that’s because they can’t design trails to be weather friendly!

Anyhow it’s was 31c when I rode home from work today so a bit of rain might be nice to cool us down a bit :/)

Speaking as an SEQ local that’s because they can’t design trails to be weather friendly!

Thats also the point the current local trail funding allowed for building all the trails rough or building and capping 25% of them, they decided to build all of them

Dead man’s Knob – what a great name for a trail – appealed to the 12 year old in me. 😆

Whinging Ozzies eh? I’d have thought you’d welcome a bit of water. Surprised that your trails are so flimsy too. Basically MTFU etc etc 😀

Good vid BTW – ‘harden the **** up’. 8)

There’s a place in England where the sun always shines. Shame its 3 miles in the air.

zippy – mud – it’s the glue that binds us.

We only had an empire because everyone was sick of the blinkin rain back home. 😀

Dead Man’s Knob is the hill 🙂

The flooding is as bad as I’ve seen in the UK and fires are proper scary, mother in law was evacuated twice this year.

But hey I don’t need to wash my bike

Still a great name that Mike.

Mrs Zulu…’Where you off to today?’
Me…’Dead man’s knob’
….long awkward silence in the kitchen… 😆

Mike, try Forrest. About 2.5 hrs southwest of Melbourne, two breweries, enough singletrack for a day or two. I did the Otway Odyssey there last week and it was super dusty but the trails are a lot of fun and the setting is epic.

Dear Oz people,not trolling just interested. How far do you travel to get to the dirt.
I used to live in Randwick Sydney and the nearest dirt was The Blue Mountains, a good hour away. Even in Byron Bay i would have to drive to Mullimbimby.
How many of you can ride dirt from your front door?

Well if you are living anywhere other than say, guessing here, this is on the east coast, the goldy to bateman bay nsw, I’m packing up and moving to a warm dryer leach free home. Know mater how much l shake my fists at them clouds it still pisses down, thanks zoidberg for that completely useless tip, summer here again was cut short and if the water table rises too much more its gonna slow down the fast sections of trail, this can and will make us pedal more. Urhhh!…Rain rain rain go away.. Settle down over in da west and piss down in WA.

Weather update from oz. Think I must have a doppelganger!

As for dirt, I live in Hobart, I just have to cross the road & I’m on the mountain.
& it’s still as dry as down here.

Two of my best friends emigrated to Brisbane with their respective (Australian) wives in the last two months. Apparently it hasn’t stopped raining yet. How I laughed.

And they’ve just lost to India in the cricket…