The missing drink bottle...

We were riding the Red Hill trail on Sunday, and were about half way through the 2.5 hour ride. My mate was borrowing my old Avanti Atomic bike as I was testing my brander spanker Norco Six. What a monster!! A sensational piece of kit that laughed off all my attempts to beat it into submission.

Anyway, we had noticed that after a while one of my drink bottles was MIA, fallen out of the cradle on the bike frame, presumably lost somewhere on the trail over some of the bumps - Red Hill being ideal for this kind of activity. "What a shame" I thought as I started recalling all the good times I have had over the many months. It is lost, out there, amongst all the bush and mud. Figuring it was all over for my lost friend, we continued on around the Red Hill loop, pressing on through all the downhills, technical drop-offs and jumps. I even rode down that massive cliff face that had me intimidated up to that point. You know the one? With the red coloured sandstone face? Well no more! It was awesome fun.

We eventually found our way back to the closing side of the loop, with something like 20 minutes of riding left. Then low and behold! The drink bottle was sitting there on the rocks, presumably right where it fell, and someone had decided to leave it right on the side of the track so the owner could pick it up. What a nice gesture!!

To the good samaritan that did this, a big THANK YOU for the nice think you did. We did find the drink bottle, and were re-united to continue our travels on future weekends. It was even full of water, which at that moment came in right handy.

Happy trails, Liam.