We've been doing a few Open5 events recently, which involve orienteering both on foot and on mountain bikes. We've not done a lot in the way of biking, so yesterday we decided to drive up to Dalby to try a bit of real MTB action.
The red routes sounded a bit technical, and green routes looked to be slightly bumpy road riding, so we went for the blue route. Me on my 30-year old Rockhopper and Carmen on her hybrid ("shopping bike") probably attracted a few comments, but we were going slowly enough that we were well out of earshot before they were made.
The routeĀ turned out to be rather more technical than expected (harder than some of the "red" routes I did in the Open5) but we got round in one piece. And Carmen can't have hated it too much as she decided we'd go round for a second circuit!
She's now looking for a cheap mountain bike. Oh dear…
Go for it. What's the worst that could happen? š