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A while ago I wrote about how I love getting out and about somewhere new on my mountain bike and not necessarily enjoying being boxed into riding in a “mountain bike park”. This thought has really come to the forefront again as I’ve started to organise this year’s Mount Donna Buang snow ride as the discussion thread, which we’ve started, seems to have really captured the imagination of a pretty significant number of people.

Honestly, I’m completely gobsmacked by the number of people who are expressing interest in doing this ride, because only a few years ago, when I took my bike up Mount Dandenong in the snow, most people thought I was an absolute loony. Now, after having done it several years running, it appears that people are catching on. Heck, even though every year, we all say that it was one of the toughest things we’ve ever done, we still seem to come back for more.

Now I won’t go claiming that I’ve come up with something new, because this is clearly something that people have been doing for a while, but it does appear to have taken off a bit with this year’s edition.

It does get me thinking though because the ride doesn’t really offer much in the way of technically challenging riding and honestly, it’s just a big ol’ grind up a dirt road on a hill. I reckon it is that whole sense of adventure thing for most of the folks putting their hand up for the ride. It’s a properly challenging event with a certain amount of novelty to it.

Either way, I’m pumped.

Hope the weather plays nice… or nasty.