Our first holiday since the break at Christmas is 5 days on the Coromandel Peninsular. There is a 72km Mountain Bike ride called the Colville Connection which I've entered,so that is the excuse for heading up north. We flew to Hamilton on the evening of Thursday, March 12th to give ourselves as much of the 5 days as possible. Getting a mountain bike onto a plane and then into the back of a small Toyota Corolla was going to be a mission, so I've bought a bike bag to carry it in. It's obviously too big to go in fully constructed, so I just have to remove both wheels, the pedals, handle bars and rear derailleur. I then lie the bike bag on the ground fully unzipped and put a wheel in each side, tape the handle bars and the rear derailleur to appropriate parts of the frame, lie the frame over one of the wheels and fold the other one over the frame, shove in padding as appropriate and then zip it all up – voila.
Friday was a leisurely drive up to Coromandel, stopping at Paeroa (we didn't see the L&P bottle, but everything in the town in L&P brown – very kiwi), Thames for brunch and then a long lunch in Coromandel, before heading out to Colville to register for the race.
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