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📢Calling all cycling 🚴🏼‍♂️ and craft beer 🍻 enthusiasts in the Moreton Bay/North Brisbane area! 📢

Tomorrow is the first ride of the Moreton Bay Chapter of the @brewdogchaingang - a fairly cruisey spin around the Redcliffe Peninsula/Hays Inlet, with a couple beers at the end.

Details in bio - meet in Lawnton at around 12:15pm for a 12:30 departure. Everyone welcome - hope too see you there!

#cycling #cyclist #brisbane #moretonbay #redcliffe #brewdog #brewdogchaingang #craftbeer #beer

And so the @velothonaus training begins. 80km ride out along the bay with only a couple stops to refill the water bottle. Slow start as my legs were feeling heavy and tired, but soon got into the swing of things. Was going to go for 100km but ended up setting off a little later than originally planned - will have a bash at that next weekend.

11ish weeks to go until the start of the Velothon and heaps of work to do - bring it.

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Pledging my allegiance to the Chain Gang 🚴🏼‍♂️🍻… Psyched to have gotten my @brewdogchaingang cycling jersey delivered this morning - and excited to be selected as a Ride Leader to get a North Brisbane/Moreton Bay Chapter up and running (or maybe just ‘Brisbane’ depending on who else out there is interested in organising some social rides). I’ve posted a tentative first ride for all you local Brisbanites/beer lovers to get involved with - checkout the the club page on @strava (link in bio). #cycling #cyclist #cyclistlife #brisbane #moretonbayregion #moretonbay #brewdog #brewdogchaingang #craftbeer #craftbeerlovers #socialcycling

Tough but enjoyable Great Brisbane Bike Ride yesterday. Hit up the 110km course - minus the optional climb up Mt Coot-tha because, damn, there were plenty of hills without it! Time was slightly longer than expected, but given the 1,400m of climbing I’m not too disappointed.

Hat’s off to @bicycle_qld for another great event - organisation was slick as ever. Great to see they had wrangled exclusive use of the Moggill Ferry, avoiding the hour and a half wait from two years ago.

10/10 would ride again

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Great Brisbane Bike Ride 2018 - waiting for go time. #cycling #gbbr18

Another early morning, another bunch of nutters in Lycra. #ipswich100 #cycling #cyclinglife

Found this photo of myself buried away in @cycleofgiving’s Facebook feed - I’m not looking too happy here, but I can remember the guys taking photos and I’m pretty sure I was in a half-reasonable mood at this point. 🚲 😤 #cycling #cyclingphotos #grumpycyclist #exhaustedcyclist

That’s the 2018 @cycleofgiving 🚲 complete. Despite my lack of consistent training I managed to achieve my goal of doing it in under four hours (even better since it was slightly longer than the 100km I was expecting). Pretty crappy weather conditions didn’t dampen the spirits of the riders, and the organisers and volunteers did a great job of making sure everything went smoothly. I will definitely be adding this to my 2019 ride calendar.

One thing this has shown me, though, is that I’ve got a heap of work to do over the next month if I have any hope of surviving the Ipswich 100 in April. I’m registered for the ‘Imperial’ course, which is 100 MILES (roughly 160km) of hilly Gold Coast Hinterland 😳. #cycling #cyclist #cyclistlife #isurvived #success

Time to get amongst it @cycleofgiving #start #cycling

After a cold, damp start the weather seems to be improving for this morning’s @cycleofgiving. Great to see a good turnout for a good cause. My first 100km ride in nearly two years - should be interesting! 🚲 #cycling #cyclist #cyclistlife #charity