I’ve been getting a bit bored recently, and fairly annoyed at how I’ve let my little level of fitness lapse into an horribly missing level of fitness, so I decided to buy a new mountain bike and go biking!

I bought a Mongoose Amasa Comp. Isn’t she perdy? 27-speed SRAM gearing, Twin piston Hayes hydraulic brakes w/ 160mm rotors, SR Suntour magnesium 32mm fork w/ 120mm travel and preload/compression adjustments and lock-out, Kenda lightweight rims. So hot right now. (image clicky-pops to fill size)

At the moment, I’ve just started out doing some really basic trips, around the suburb, just to get myself back in and used to riding. 5km tops. And boy, do my legs hurt!

The plan is to get back into doing it every weekend or so, so I’ve gotten some friends in with me. We’re going to start out light, in the bush reserve behind my house, and then work up to a couple of tracks through the mountains, like the Oaks Firetrail and such. Bikley is a very good place to start finding tracks!