An hour to travel 12 kilometers. Yep that slow. When there is thick sand to ride through. Collectively just over a kilometer of deepish sand. Yep it slows you down. Today I rode Red Hill Rd, Ourimbah. Dirt road. Used by 4x4s, mountain bikers and logging trucks. First few kilometers was up hill and winding. Hard packed. This is fun and easy. Then I hit the first patch of sand. Feet down. First gear. crawling. Letting the front wheel goes where it likes. Came wheel to wheel with old mate on a mountain bike. Me "How much more sand up ahead?" Old mate "I had to get off and push trough buts is only 50 meters in length, then there is another section as you climb up the hills and then the ruts. You have ridden the worst of the sand so you should be ok. You have wide tyres." Me "Thanks mate." off we go. Old mate is heading for the deep long sand I have come through. Ruts he said. Bet they are just wash board and I can get some speed up and skim over them...