Unashamedly Christian

I went for a bike ride (mountain bike, not motor bike!) with my buddy Joshua on Thursday. He gave me a call on Wednesday asking if I was interested in going for a ride on Thursday – um that’s a hard one, yes! Tony (Joshua’s dad) gave us a lift to the top of this really great track and we were off. Starting with 7-km of downhill riding – we got up to 60-km/h – down a dirt track, we then did another 27-km on other forestry tracks.

After coming through a rough section Joshua’s rear derailer’s guide wheel came off – we spent a while looking for it, but the parts of the guide wheel are small so we didn’t have much chance of finding them, plus it was getting dark. So, what do you do when things like this happen? Well, you ask your best friend to help! And that’s what we did, we had a prayer and started looking again and within five minutes we’d found all the parts and were on our way again – praise the Lord!

Only problem was that it was now dark and we still had 5-km to go – well, that’s no problem when you have a head-torch in your Camelbak lol. It was fun riding in the dark, though a bit challenging as we were on a rough track, which ends in a right-of-way going through a farm. It’s fine when it’s dry but we’ve had a whole lot of rain this winter, and the ground was a bog, mud was spraying up all over us as we came flying down the hill. At the bottom of the hill is a small creek which had risen from the rain, and we came down the hill and straight into the creek – wet shoes and pants! After that it was just a relaxed 2-km ride on a dirt road to Joshua’s place. It was great to have a decent ride, as I haven’t had one since summer!