A little background for the two idiot's heading over to Perth this weekend to ride a bike for a day...
A Brief History of the Five Dams Ride
Lindsay O'Brien was a pioneer of the five dams ride over 10 years ago and tells us how it came about.
The Five Dams Ride, that fabled endurance test for ageing cyclists, was conceived one Saturday morning in 1998 in a café on the terrace in Fremantle. Was it possible to incorporate the five metropolitan dams into a single day¹s ride? One intrepid rider thought so. Lindsay O¹Brien.The following Tuesday he set out from Claremont, up the scarp at Lesmurdie and on to Mundaring. Then proceeding south to Serpentine, past the dam to the South West Highway and back to Claremont - 280 kilometres in just under ten hours.Many different routes have since been used but all using the basic original framework. Solitude is the devil's playground, so the ride is more enjoyable in a group.
The ride itself produces its own drama. The fatigue of ill-prepared riders brings out the best and the worst in them. The camaraderie such a ride invokes makes it a memorable experience.
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