Yeti at the Olympics.

Grave's BMX apparently wasn't the only YETI at the Olympics.....

Sadly got no specs on the pole!!!!!!

Trails.

Its been hard coming back to QLD and riding the local trails, they all seem like a giant highway compared to the REAL tight and twisty in New Zealand. What hurt even more, as I came back on Tuesday, Ben is only about to jump on a plane now.

Those 3 extra days of riding THOSE trails would have been wicked.

BIG HUGE mad props to Bike Vegas for providing Ben and I some sweet arm warmers, look for these in the dead of the night at the Scott 24.

Random!!!

The Van the morning after the 12 hour......
Rhino with Bellies son Jackson......
Ben wearing the cap that all SOLO riders had to wear.....
Ben and Mel on the chairlift at the rotorua luge place. Much fun indeed.
ben showing his thoughts on the 36" wheel craze......
Outside Zippy's cafe each morning.

Parking our van........
My view of the morning, not much room to walk.....
The whole AyUp tribe gonig for a fantastic singletrack ride through rotorua.....
Yetis in singletrack, and Ben hiding behind a tree.
Ben 'cooking me some eggs'...............quess you have to see Once were Warriors...

Um........no comment.
Home sweet Home......
Team Yeti, in small, medium and large......
Ben and I the day after the the race, with the fresh realisation that we had been given kids hydration packs as first prize......

Done and Won!

Ben and Myself have flown across the pond to NZ, to take out the win the 2/3 Mens 12 hour race!

AyUp Lighting/YETI Australia stood tall on the podium, with the wallabies losing on the big screen behind us!!!

This is really all we have to show, a medal............and Ben and I each got a Kids Hydration Backpak as well.
Ben about to rock the trails......
Ben and I high up in the trails around Rotorua. Just after this photo, we found a rally sweet trail.
Me racing around through the campsite at the race, not sure if the ARC was the best choice for the race, as the ol behind wasn't loving the constant bumps after 6 hours.
We drove around like this, I think when your in another country, you don't need to look out the back mirror.

Racing again.....in colours!

Brisbane racing ebbs and flows, some weekends we have to choose between 3 races, and then other times there are long stretches before you can put a plate on the front of your bike to get some XC kms into the legs.

Well thankfully, local club racing is back in fashion, in the good ol land of XXXX. $10 gets you a race plate and time to smash yourself around a seriously good singletrack course.

A genuine smile. The course was steller. A quick 4km loop, which would have been 3km of singletrack. Tight and twisting all over the place. Some sections were super tough to be quick through (rock garden) and other areas were just plain fun (the A and B line downhill section).

There were 3 people in the downhill section, making the same sound as 50. All looking for someone to bin it big time, but still cheering no matter what.

Have you every ridden a section, so outta control and so fast, that you get through it and wondered
1). How you didn't crash?
2). How fast that must have looked to you mates?

Well, I give you lap 3, and myself coming through the A plus line that I created through that section. A nice pre-jump off the singletrack, and straight lined it into the off shoot ramp......I should have been laying in a pile of dirt!!!

Result found here;

http://www.kenmorecycleclub.com/

I am still LOVING being on my Arc hardtail. Yeah, I know Ben and Russ are pimping style on there 2008 ASR-Alloys, and they all look the business. But my hardtail is brilliant, the dimensions fit my body perfectly, and the balance between comfort and speed is there..
But, the last laugh will be mine.

Just who will get the new ASR-Carbon first..........

Yeti Cycles TV Ad 2007

Here We Come.....

Look out New Zealand! Ryan and Ben are coming...


We are going over as part of a full on AY-UP assault of the Land of the Long White Cloud. We will be racing the Taupo Day Night Thriller, a 12 hour race on the trails around Lake Taupo(crazy eh?)

Ryan and Ben are pairing up for the race and Bellie is heading over to race solo.


Ryan will be doing the hard man duties on his ARC hardtail


Ben will be riding in a bit more comfort on his new ASR. (someone needs to get with the program....just joking mate)


A quick check of the local NZ weather seems to be similar to Melbourne so that'll be fine for most of us. Those with full body tans might not like the sub 20 degree temps.


After the race we have a week of riding at Taupo, Rotorua and anywhere else that might take our fancy.


From New Zealand its hard training for 3 weeks..........


..........then the Scott 24 hour. Pairs it is and with some big names entering its gonna be a cracker.