Watts2Gain

22/07/2024

State Champs with awesome company and good times racing. Thanks Bundaberg Cycling Club and AusCycling - QLD Clubs and Community
thanks for photos from Deb and Matt

15/07/2024

Tough day out with brutal climbs, technical tracks, mud, but very rewarding day to finish Noosa Enduro for 2024. Great company on course and amazing day catching up with mates. Thanks to all riders, organisers and volunteers. Awesome weather

13/07/2024

Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride friends reunite for Noosa Enduro

04/07/2024

Rubbing shoulders with Cycling Royalty tonight at Zwift Australia | New Zealand Brisbane event!! Love a good catch up with my Zwift mates and good friends such as Katey L Bates, The Wheelhouse Cycling, Wes, Craig, Beardy McBeard and my local Bris cycling buddies Steve, Aimee, Ness, Vince, Kieron, some of the 99 Bikes crew, The FE Sports lads, Wahoo crew and everyone else I’ve forgotten, what a great night, thanks Zwift! Go team Blue, taking the win every time!!

03/07/2024

Who’s keen to come to free Zwift promo night with me tomorrow night, fun games, drinks and snacks in Zwift?

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01/07/2024

And that’s a C2K Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride wrap! Jackie Dorey, Lynda Kendrick and I are home. Karumba to Charters Towers night 1, some night markets, exploring and dinner with my mate Katrina Briggs and HR. Day 2, awesome catch up with my mate Mick in Emerald for lunch, a quick explore seeing the Van Gogh painting and onto Rockhampton for our final night with Adrian and omg best 5 ⭐️ accom at his place with the best BBQ steaks 🥩. Last day - Jackie’s Birthday 🥳 and she even got a nice policeman to breath test her 😆. Our slogan on the trip home was “you can’t park there” so many wrecked and broken down cars. We had a great trip, dodged all the cows, emus, wallabies, Roos, birds etc and have so many memories, thanks for the support and following us, til 2025 and we do it again! Remember if your keen to ride, volunteer or support there’s 25% off early bird entry til Friday so let me know

29/06/2024

Day 7- yes yesterday Friday 28/6/24 Normanton to Karumba - what a spectacular day with the most amazing friends - new and old! And 🤩 WOW Sunset Tavern Karumba Point, North Queensland turned on an amazing Sunset 🌅 and finishing festivities 🍺 for the final ride day of Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride 2024
Thanks to everyone involved and to the sponsors
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28/06/2024

We made it! Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride for 2024!! Full album to come from today when in better reception 📞, amazing people,
Who’s in for 2025?
Early Bird entry Til THIS FRIDAY ONLY!

27/06/2024

Day 6 at Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride is Pack 1 race day for 155kms - we averaged 35.5km/hr today to BEAT the train!! It’s a tough day out with only a couple of quick stops, on dead roads and battling head winds, our group was amazing and all 10 riders emptied the tank to beat the train by approx 30mins. Our last big day and the pub was a welcoming site. Before back to base hall for the night, shower and onto dinner and Tiara and Bow tie celebration night. I read the Wally awards and Frank and Narelle were our favourite wallies and took home the jerseys. A couple drinks and back to 😴 before our last day of riding 🚴 to Karumba and hopefully see an amazing sunset 🌅

26/06/2024

C2K Georgetown to Croydon as a Wally today (each night everyone votes for 2 recipients to receive awards for the next day for being a Wally, so last night I was in a hurry to go to the toilet as I needed to get something for the P&C and accidentally walked into the male toilet and was caught… ooops… the circumstances were funny!)
153km in total as Jerry and I did a ticky tour of Georgetown before leaving. Long day today but amazing lunch provided by P&C at Gilbert River and the walk to the river is always great. Before back in the bike for a hot afternoon. Riding into Croydon was welcoming!! And yea the cold ginger beer with C2K mates was welcomed!!
A great day out with Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride mates…. The pics and videos show the amazing adventures of day 5. Stayed turned for tomorrow when we race the train!

25/06/2024

Day 4 - Georgetown Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride afternoon camp set up (for ride photos today see earlier post… and Drum Roll…. The Calcutta where they close off the streets, we had the local Schools attend and a student play the violin 🎻 and Mt Surprise showed their school song and video. Dirk almost won the Calcutta race where they close the streets for Pack 1 but had a tough handicap and Frank also flew the flag for us in the race. Then back to camp for an amazing dinner by the P&C and oh I got a Wally award but no jerseys the right size currently. we also actioned off the Pedal Bike that 99 Bikes gave to the charity which made money 💰 for the bush kids education and was also gifted for a young student to ride.
Amazing 🤩

25/06/2024

Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride day 4 - Mt Surprise to Georgetown, 92km at 32.8km/hr including New Castle Range and it was Superhero day!! So much fun 🤩
Amazing day with Pack 1, so many laughs and great catch ups with lunch on the top of the range and omg first pub open in 3 days!

24/06/2024

What an amazing day 3 of Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride riding from Mt Garnet to Mt Surprise 118kms in Pack 1 averaging over 33km/hr with the highlight of having amazing kids from the outback joining us along the way for 4kms to ride into 40 Mile Scrub where the P&C had made us an amazing morning tea!! Mega thanks. Then onto Mt Surprise and again the local pub was closed so onto the Big 4 who opened their bar early for the thirsty riders and supporters. Some amazing dinner by our volunteers, some Wally awards and the No Talent Quest for a few laughs. Another great day.

23/06/2024

Day 2 Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride saw 105km and approx 1200m climbing from Atherton to Mt Garnet. Hills, wind sometimes headwind 😞 and sometimes tailwind 😊. Amazing morning tea by Herberton State School P-10 P&C 🙌
We have to ride hard to burn off all the amazing 🤩 food. So onto the highest point in Qld a quick photo and on our way. Arrived at Mt Garnet for the daily beer 🍺 at the local pub, only to find it closed 😢 so onto camp! Lucky the P&C here opened the camp bar early. A great meal, Wally Awards read out by me then dessert and trivia! What a day and night. Thanks to all our riders, supporters and volunteers making it possible and supporting kids education programs in the outback. The students helping today were amazing. I even had the pleasure to test out the Pedal 24 inch kids bike, which is supporting the charity and going to a worthy recipient later in the week. Congrats also to Tracy Darveniza for her QOM 👸 win!

22/06/2024

Good news

🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️Two North Coast councils have joined forces to fast-track the completion of the long-awaited Northern Rivers Rail Trail. 📍Here's the latest. 👉 https://bit.ly/3KOgl7R

22/06/2024

C2K Day 1 of riding from Cairns to Karumba, 108kms riding today up Kuranda range, lunch in Mareeba at the Aerodrome thanks to the Lions club and into Atherton, compulsory beverage at the pub, chats, shinanigans and into camp at Atherton Big 4. Camp set up, held a stretch class and then an amazing dinner!!

21/06/2024

On the road for the 2nd day, Mackay to Cairns, stopping along the way at the Big Mango 🥭 at Bowen, lunch at pretty Cardwell and onto Cairns to pick up rider packs, attend the Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride briefing and meet old and new friends, let the fun begin for day 1 of the ride tomorrow

20/06/2024

Road trip to Mackay, thanks for our lunch Adrian at Rockhampton …. Day 1 of our Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride adventure has begun, arrive in Cairns tomorrow. Mackay tonight. Thanks to Jackie Dorey and Lynda Kendrick for your company and bring on the adventure

12/06/2024

Last Raffle - Who wants to win cash tomorrow and support a great cause? $5 a ticket and the winner will take half the kitty, (on origin night I sold $420 worth of tickets so winner took home $210! And $210 for the charity!) Shaun from Hip Hops Brewers is in support of the raffle and it will be drawn there tomorrow night at Trivia. Transfer $ to my account - see pic for details and message your bank transfer. You don’t have to be at the Trivia night to win!! So support my cause and I’ll do the hard yards and ride my bike Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride

01/05/2024

Who’s coming to Cairns to Karumba Bike Ride with us this year? 4 speed groups and an amazing week riding across the top end of Qld across the last week in June. Amazing adventure with the best people. I’ll be driving up 20th June and back 1st July is anyone’s keen on road trip up and back.

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Please note you must register prior to 1st May 2024 in order to guarantee that your jersey or T-shirt size is available for you. If you register after the 1st of May 2024, we CANNOT guarantee that the jersey or T-shirt size you have selected will be available.

21/04/2024

Sunshine Women's Tour is done and dusted for 2024. Yesterday saw the Hill Climb and Road Race stages and some 🌧️ rain which didn’t dampen our spirits. It’s amazing to see women from all over Qld battling it our and giving your all no matter what grade your in. A few of us sat out the rainy road race but cheered the committed ladies on! Here’s a snapshot of yesterday. Thanks Suncoast Vet for making the weekend possible and everyone else. Especially my supporting mates. Great to have been around old mates and to have made new ones 😊

20/04/2024

A great Day 1 of the Sunshine Women's Tour sponsored by Suncoast Vet, a few snaps friends and I caught throughout the day showing the young, the old and even fur babies are out to participate, help and support!! Today was tough but hotly contested in stage 1 - Prologue and Stage 2 - Crit. Great racing across all grades.

My club Kangaroo Point Cycling Club ❤️❤️❤️🚴🚴🚴

16/04/2024

Race Ladies:

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16/03/2024

Ryder is the best Marshall Lifecycle Cycling Club - Brisbane Crit race at Nundah

06/01/2024

Here supporting Kyle Willis and mates for another year at Nationals for the para events a bronze for the ITT a couple days ago and silver today only down by 15secs and tough for Kyle as a lot of the last few kms are down hill where the other guys have an advantage. Amazing Kyle did us proud as did all riders. Patty Best a great mate took the gold in his category too. Amazing work. Aimee and Cas did amazing on silver too. Just great all round

06/01/2024

Kyle gave his all and tried everything to defend his national championship, so proud of him, 2nd this year but not by far. Amazing!! Only 15 secs down, the other riders have the advantage on the down hill

07/10/2023

Rotary Ride the Range and ready to start

18/09/2023

Cardiac Challenge Day 3 - final day from Lakeland to Cooktown. Amazing day with new and old friends, a little wind 💨 , some rain 🌧️ but we all made it with smiles on our faces and knowing we’ve raised money for a good cause.
Thanks Cardiac Challenge and Pack 2 for being amazing 🤩

17/09/2023

Day 2 was on fire literally from Mt Carbine to Lakeland, 113km managed to get the QOM on the range and had a great time ended at the pub… we ride for beer and good causes! Thanks again to all the new and old mates memories Cardiac Challenge

16/09/2023

Day 1 Cairns to Mt Carbine 135km, up Kuranda Range in pack 2. An amazing day, great food and company, and a few beverages 🍺 to celebrate the day. Amazing support from my mates, thanks so much ❤️