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Be ready for rocks. Even being a Sydney mountain biker - and thus inured to sandstone-riddled trails - didn’t prepare me for the onslaught here. It’s not like everywhere is rocky, or that the rocks here are constant (because there are certainly sections without them). But when you hit them - and you will, because they are pretty much unavoidable - you notice them; they’re sharp, jagged, often loose, and like to bunch together into long bonerattling gangs.

Tubeless is the way to go. No ands, ifs, or buts. Not only will it stop

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