The theme of this site is now several years old — the year specific archive headers would indicate it was originally written in 2004 — and also several steps behind the functionality now available in WordPress itself.
For a few days we’ll be using an out of the box theme while I tinker behind the scenes with stylesheets.
One immediate change is the addition of reCaptcha on the comments form and relaxing of some of my commenting restrictions.
Fuck it.
I can’t be arsed setting myself targets and totals for a year or a month. WHich is a good thing too as January has been a pitiful month from a riding point of view. Any intentions of getting out this weekend – and I had scheduled other items to make sure I had riding time – were scuppered by illness of emetic proportions.
Still, there’s always next weekend, and some local cheek worth exploring.
I suppose I also ought to decide whether to enter the 24 Hours of Exposure.
Bike: Spot
Route: Steppingley figure of eight
Playlist: New Wave Faves
Not the most exciting route, and with the clay and clag more like resistance training. Still, the singletrack section was sketchy fun. Maybe I should have fitted mud tyres to the geared Spot or just gone out on the singlespeed, which is suitably equipped 12 months of the year.
Vintage Spot
Bike: Spot
Route: Reverse Pig Farm with added cheek to finish
Playlist: Metal
First ride of the year. I encountered cheeky trail riders on the bridleway riding to their not so secret play spot. I rode some cheeky footpaths and everyone, everyone, I met was walking a dog. Not one of them was on a lead. I don’t normally ride the same bridleways on the bike as I do on the horse because, well, good horse-riding bridleways aren’t generally good bike-riding bridleways and vice versa. But tonight one of them was the best way home. Met two horse riders on the way.
Now if I was typical of the commentards on the Singletrackworld forum these days I should have been bitten at least once and later died of an apoplectic fit at the abuses of rights of way going on. Yet I had no problems and everyone was friendly and cheery. My suspicion is that attitude begets attitude and there’s a reason so many of the folk on that aforementioned forum have difficult encounters on the trails. Just saying like.
The photo per ride trend continues into 2012. I’ve made a note to start carrying the UltraPod so that they’re not just Panda shots.
cheeky chalky