All downhill may have been stretching it for today, however it was a brilliant ride! Lots and lots of down, with 650m of vertical in there too, then beers, tapas and chilling.

Which brings me nicely into Tapas here. You never ever ever have to buy a meal, well not in the usual context. The tapas can be anything, from fried calamari to wedges and chicken, buy each and every beer, comes with a tapas, if you get 3 beers you get 3 on the plate. We’ve had hot dogs, veal, kebabs, squid, tuna etc etc. The trick is, you order half pints, so not filling on beers and being drunk etc, but you get loads of food. Last night we went to leave, he wouldn’t let us unless we had a beer on him, we’d eaten and drunk like kings for 4 hours, the bill, 28 euro! Wtf. It’s just amazing, great quality too.

Anyway, back to the riding, it was the usual single track then fireroad then a village and repeat. Over the week I’ve been having a pop at most sections, one today I got to the bottom of, it was so so rocky, steep and a bit nuts,! Crust says to me “you never actually rode that did you?” But the answer was yes. Press the Bluetooth button, drop post and hang on! Pop off the rocks, pick your lines and pray for the pending death not to come to fruition. Tbf this kind of tech riding I thrive on, I’m not a jumpy droppy guy, but I love testing myself. So I’m in my element here. But very little of it is me, it’s the Whyte, sheesh, it’s just so so good, stable, fast, awesome. I love the thing!

Was straight into the pool with more beer and damn it’s nice to get in the pool after riding. I’m not a sun monster though so I’m chilling and listening to music in the shade while crust is having a kip.

Just one riding day left now 🙁

This week I’m now on nearly 6000m on vertical and my legs are complaining lot! We’ve not ridden far, only 150 or so I’m, but it’s been a hard hard week and lots of tech and lots of up!

My oppo crust just finishing a hard rocky descent

Lunch at church in Bublion

On way back to Orgiva on a random trail

Did the climb of the mine again, well 50% of it anyway up to a left and then went over the opposite side of the mountain.

At the top we came along a ridge which led us into the 46 hairpins of death! Super steep, insanely technical, hard and talk about rocky, it may as well have been some weird alien planet.
Down, bump bang, bump, rock, hairpin, rock rock rock jump, hairpin rock, ouch.

At the end I waited for the boys and we went down one final trail, seemed to be a Swinley type cheeky home made trail, couple of jumps, berms and I stacked it! Lost the front and went down. Happily, not a scratch on me and we trecked back to the bar.

Beers, beers, beers, we survived! What a week!

Who’s in for next years trip then ?

and lots of up!

You are not selling it to me 😉

Missed the thread earlier, a great read thanks for sharing

I like this thread.

It’s not a race going up, well, unless you make it one

You were great company Steve and Simon, good weeK!!

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Bit of a premature one, but we’ve just booked with David again for June 2019 🙂 I know, it’s 15 months away… but doesn’t make me any less excited.

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