Mountain bike ride

It's quite fitting that my first post this year, is about my first major ride on my mountain bike. A couple of months ago I moved slightly out of town, to a smallholding with enough landscapes to explore. So I bought my first mountain bike in many years, but it was only yesterday that I took it on a serious ride. After a couple of hours ride, several crashes and a lost pump, I finally made it back home to a hot shower. The feeling of exhilaration was the best I have ever felt in a long time. I'm a seasoned road cyclist, but I have just caught the bug of mountain biking, its going to be a really difficult decision to get onto that road bike again. Atleast for now I don't have to battle for a spot on the road with all those notorious SA driver's out there.