Over an awesome breakfast at Bean Scene, I convinced Anton & Jeremy to hire bikes too – they didn’t really require much convincing to be honest.

So we headed down to the bike shop and got another couple of 2nd hand bikes, helmets & locks. We rode up to the conference, dodging traffic, and hung out for a bit in the lounge checking email etc.

After a while we headed out to Lunch at the Governor on George St. After lunch we decided to make a little detour on the way back to the conference, via Lanarch Castle – a quick 40 something KM round trip.

The weather was awesome, warm, but not too hot, although the sun was burning, even through sunscreen.

We took Highcliffe Road, which heads along the ridge of the peninsula, so to start with we had a bit of climb. After that there were a few minor hills, though nothing too killer.

After about 8 KM along the ridge we finally got to the castle. Having ridden for two hours to get there I thought they might shout us the entry fee, haha. Regardless we hung out in the garden for a while, drank a bit and took a few photos.

The ride down was awesome, what took us about an hour of climbing took literally 5 minutes to come down, at serious speed. My great slick city tires weren’t gripping too well under brakes, which made the whole experience a little more fun. At one point I locked both wheels up and slid for a good 20 metres on the smooth bitumen, weeee.

The ride home along the seaside road was great, although the traffic was a little annoying. It’s dead flat, funny that, and quite smooth, so we made really good time.

Another awesome day in Dunedin.

Thanks to the Blanchinator for some of the photos.