A Big Day Out On The Mountain Bike! 🥵 – Cyprus MTB Day 3

This was a big day out! Started a bit late so it was a battle to try and squeeze in the 90km mountain bike ride we had planned before the sun set! If you are in Cyprus for riding and you want a challenge this route is a good one! 🙌

Here we go day three shoes are still uh soaking wet from yesterday which is nice but the bike is looking nice and clean today is looking like we found a little route it’s hopefully got a bit of mountain biking on it uh there’ll be a bit of

Gravel bit of Road bit of everything but it’s looking like about 90 km and about 1800 M climbing or maybe, 1600 M can’t remember but not too bad should be good let’s see how it is oh nothing quite like slay into some wet shoes that’s yeah that’s good

Stuff it’s a rough road but the rain yesterday has created some pretty giant puddles for us to deal with rock so yeah we’re just trying to avoid these puddles oh my we have just arrived at the world’s biggest puddle Tom’s walking something just jumped into the water so it’s getting pretty

Exciting this walk I narrow death Ridge you a wobble this is exciting we’re properly like adventuring Through The Valleys here looks like we’re going to get up to the top and I think the route takes us like along the Ridge and back down to the coast pretty exciting really

Exciting pretty cool up here a Tom it’s real nice Mountain beautiful pretty exciting bit Cliffy we’re an hour in we got snack time snack time we’ve got a delightful view of the coast from up here H I think our route goes along down there up and

We got to that Monastery again that we went to yesterday and then from there we carry on along up there and back to it’s going to be a big ride so we should probably H up and eat the snack went slightly off rout so we’re on the on the free ride

Route to get back to the right path and it is rubbly there we go back on the r so we’re bombing that fire for ages it was wed and now we’re back on the TAC spinning down although it looks like we’re about to peel back off the TAC

Maybe bit more gravel see what happens we just rode like up and along that one then down the road now we’re ping back up again up and down up and down get up there and then I think we head to the coast after this one so we just got this

B climb and it’s very familiar because uh the other day we rode along here well the first day we rode along here and then along and down that way and it was good fun we thought this was like whoops uh but today we’re climbing and

Then we go over that way nope that’s a lie we go back out this way this good it’s been challenging this route so far it has been some Hefty climbs Hefty climbs all Steep and tacky Steep and turkey and then just bombed out fire which is pretty exciting however it feels like we’re

Only a little sniff of the way in and it’s taking us a lot longer than we expected looking a long way away oh it’s a long way away all right monaster is up top of that hill but first we’re heading down to the coast we’re cruising along the coast for

A bit and then we head up to the monastery 2 hours in so it’s snack number two I’m thinking tell rrap time we got three today so we’re well well prepared looks like we’re on the coastal road now fa Road riding but we’ve also got a burning

Question here Thomas just said if you could have one fruit plant tree whatever bush in your garden that just constantly produces fruit that you can that you can eat stuff unlimited amount of fruit you which one would you have I’m thinking maybe a lemon tree cuz you can you can

Use that for a bit of cooking you can make some lemonade pretty tasty Tom all about having a pineapple I’m either pineapple or raspberry cuz I like raspberries in my yogurt but I could swing off an entire pineapple for breakfast but and they’re also expensive as well he’s not scared of the

Pineapples yeah interesting let us let us know in the comments what sort of fruit plant tree you’d like yeah let us know I’m interested oh look how nice the water looks here we go stairs you shred them comes up the first set oh TI oh no oh overtake guy overtake

Guy I think we’re on here oh it looks nice down on that Beach pretty exciting I think we’re maybe on a bit of overhanging Cliff here I didn’t realize it was going to be this scary heading up there oh I want go for a swim looks so nice and

Warm made it to the beach and got Touch the Water don’t want get wet feet though feels nice that’s nice War I see you look at all those chickens Tom’s a little bit tired at the moment I’m tired out here he’s having a little bit of a moon about his tired little legs

Yeah but the good news for him is we’re halfway there almost halfway so just imagine everything we’ve done so far do that again that’s nice that’s easy isn’t it that’s crau the sound of that and we’ve got but we’ve only got 2 and 1/2 hours to do it we’re conscious

That we’re low on time for the rest of the day and it’s still a long way to the top of the mountain so we’re just trying to get a little bit of a wiggle on are we yeah we’re getting closer now bit of tech climbing now this just

To keep the legs nice and warm you don’t want them going too Steel so it’s good to throw in a real steep spicy bit of climbing isn’t it Tom love it Tom loves it where’s your heart rate at 160 160 you’re cruising he’s hking not far at all

That’s there we go that’s the bottom SE bottom of the top section of the black we were yesterday so then that was the bottom section just arrived at this road pretty exciting yes you chaed yes the blue is over here down to the tat Road oh let’s do that then blue and then

Tat saw the view from the top yesterday was beautiful but because we’re low on time we’re just going to nip up here and we’re going to scoot down the blue and then get back onto the route just to finish off the route round past the dam

Sound good damn son sounds good need to start of the blue we’re thinking full running it which we’re guessing is going to be about 5 minutes we’ll find out but the the idea with this run is to get nice flu try and Link the turns up

Nicely try not make a mess of it which is going to be easier said than done so yeah we’ll do a full run see what happens are you good goody dog let’s go let’s go dropping in oh it’s bumpy already messed up there should have gotten

High trying to focus on trying to get a bit of flu can’t go too fast on the rough stops it’s a bit tricky on a cross country set up so going to just try and focus on carrying speed not making too many mistakes like there I I went down there

Yesterday so today try not do that oh it’s bumpy sacrifice a little bit of time not to get wet that was a good technique so loose it’s really exciting whoa steady for that one Thomas it’s a good track I see I’ve still not learned you need to go slower into these Corners to

Get a bit more speed out I’m still going into them way too fast which I’m not going R in fast but for how tight the corners are like that was much better and the more efficiently you can carry speed around the corner the less effort it’s going to

Take you during the course of a whole run oh Tom’s got me on the inside line he didn’t realize why stopped just keep hold thank you nice thank you hello thank you hello thank you all right now we got a Sprint wee this track is actually so much fun trying to flow down

It rewards you for being patient and I’m not very good at riding patiently anyone knows my riding knows I can be a bit frantic sometimes so trying to be patient he’s actually really hard work I’ll go run this way oh High Line oh Tom took the snake line getting some sneak

In oh dabbed on that corner I’m going to be interested to see how long this full run is I’m not I’m not able to push as hard as I’d like because with XC tires and stuff you slide so easy so you can’t like attack like you would on a

On like a downhill setup with thicker tires and that was exciting just got to keep fluing though it’s a good it’s good track looking ahead is key see how tight the corners are going to be and sections like this we just carry about speed and careful around the loose corner

TR corner to the right down exit speed out wi oh bird flu Oh Bish is in the face careful for this bit hi it’s tight bit I think we were this bit as well yeah the step up that’s right that’s the blue that’s a good track isn’t it that

Was tired that was good F you get tired story of Tom’s day every pedal he didn’t want to do it we’ll have a quick look at the map and work out which was the best way home cuz we probably got about an hour to bomb the journey home they look

Tasty back out onto the road must be getting a bit closer to home it’s fun here cuz you drive on the left so it feels just like being at home he yeah F I don’t need to be able to outrun the dog I just need to be able to outrun

You on the road again so here’s a terrible idea going to ride through this deep puddle oh it’s foot deep it is foot deep yourself I’m this side Tom thinks that I went the wrong side let’s see if he’s got a better side it’s looking good at the movement nope

Nope both feet fully under oh he almost went up the he almost went over the bars as well imagine I’d go I’d be flying home tonight oh wet feet man so we had a lovely dry day where we dried out the shoes from yesterday and now we’ve just

Went through a really deep puddle wonder if we should empty the shoes of water now so they might dry on our feet may a little bit we should have went around that puddle but easy way around it as well oh I almost got him I don’t know if you

Can see it but just in the distance there that Dam basically our house is a bit further past the other side of that so that’s a good sign it’s nice here we are arrived at the dam just got to go back there not too far oh he’s going to have a huge

Getting into an easy gear fredd for climb the stairs time to head home I think yeah it’s pretty much pitch black now here we go oh it feels good to get home today fully D little street light return see we’ got the must of the strength for

Some tech trials to get it back up there we goo good day good day there we go now that was that was quite a big one we did start a little bit late so that’s uh it’s our own fault we finished in the pitch black but

Here’s here’s the stats from the day got got 6 hours 47 ride time uh 88 km distance average speed 13 km hour average Watts 219 uh what else we got all the zoney stuff total scent uh 1,753 m not bad not bad so going to get

The get the bike washed up can’t even see but it got a little bit dirty with all the puddle Splash we got we had to deal with uh time to get fueled up another big day coming up tomorrow but maybe less pedaling we’ll see see you tomorrow