Element Engineering director Ayrton Sue enters long-distance mountain bike and road bike races because there’s no better way to stay fit and focused for life.
Pedal strike and gravel rash while riding my Repco mountain bike around the cul-de-sac we lived in. My brother Liam and I were quite competitive with each other, with timed races up and down that street .Five: two mountain bikes, two road bikes and a gravel bike. Too much! I like to have elite-level equipment so I can only blame myself for any mediocre performance.
I’m coming off the back of about 250 kilometres on the road per week after the Hawaiian Ride for Youth. I’ll try to keep to that or slightly less, with a cross-country mountain bike session per week taking precedence.Hills. The flat is fun on a road bike in a group but doesn’t compare to pushing a mountain bike through the hills at pace.Probably the camaraderie of training and competing with people from different backgrounds and ability levels.Saddle sores.
Probably the current Premier for Western Australia, Roger Cook. I’d try to better understand how the WA surplus is being budgeted.Absolutely not. It’s inspiring seeing masters riders in their 60s putting it to me in training, and others well into their 70s and even 80s smashing out 700 kilometres without complaint. Physical and mental fitness from the bike may be a recipe for ageing well.My mountain bike gloves.
I’m becoming more interested in overseas cycling adventures the more I hear about them and see pictures from Strava.Before the 2017 Cape to Cape, the Element Engineering mountain bike race team went down to Margaret River to ride all the trails we thought would be part of the event. My good mate Matthew Jones had been feeling off all morning. We spotted a nice gap jump and all were going to hit it in a ‘train’, as if us late-20s to mid-30s men were teenagers again.
He broke his back and needed several rods and screws. It was a long recovery, but he was back on the bike only a year or so later. I still head out on the mountain bike with him occasionally, and he still demolishes me downhill.Yes, while doing jumps that are totally unnecessary and beyond my skill level – it’s a fear of not sticking the landing, and of the resulting road rash.
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