This week, my brother-in-law, Jarrod, and I took the short trip from Orford to Kellevie, Tasmania, to ride the course for the Kellevie 24hr MTB race. We weren’t doing the race, just checking out the course (you have to be crazy to be a 24 MTBer). The 10k circuit goes down as the most fun I have EVER had on a bike – it’s incredibly technical, with about 180m of climbing, through bush, rainforest, riversides, fields and the very occassional fire road. Not a momet to relax, either physically or mentally – as one of the guys who was on the course with us said, “There aren’t ANY skills that aren’t examined on this course.” Tight turns through dense bush seemed to be Jarrod’s undoing, though, as he crashed three times in three attempts at the same corner – the video above shows attempt number three (which resulted in three sliced fingers and multiple bruises)…and the video below shows some of the very tight track through the rainforest section of the course…god knows how anyone is going to do this in the dark!