December, 2005
December 30th, 2005
My Xmas present this year was a bit of a double whammy.
Kirsty bought me some lovely White Industries Eno cranks from those nice people at Sideways Cycles. This meant that I had a nice pair of Race Face Turbines, and more importantly a non-wobbly bottom bracket, going spare for the Turner.
So I spent […]
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December 15th, 2005
By a roundabout way I was invited to the John North Xmas ride tonight - Thanks Ben :-)
I haven’t seen John since he was in the pits at Karrimor 6 last year, telling me how lucky I was to have a wife that wouldn’t let me stop, so I wasn’t going to pass on a […]
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December 12th, 2005
Went over to Calderdale for a ride on Sunday and spent most of the day grovelling up hills eating stem.
Considering that this was supposed to be a camera free ride at least three of the party were at the coogleplex flashing digital SLRs around. I had my handy little Fuji with me, but it struggled […]
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December 9th, 2005
Over summer I did a fair bit of riding with a BOB trailer.
I noticed that many of the cycling facilities in my area were too short to cope with the increased length.
So what? How many BOB trailers do you see? Fair enough, but I live just yards from a primary school and you DO see […]
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December 4th, 2005
A couple days ago Punkass (www.sheeparegreat.com) put some pictures of Santa Cruz up on flickr.
Inspired by this Biff put some pictures of Eastbourne on cheeky. Where Punkass had cool pics of tracks in the sand and cool skateboard dudes, Biff had old codgers wandering round an identikit town centre in the pissing rain. As irony […]
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December 4th, 2005
I was pleasantly surprised yesterday when Singletrack Issue 25 arrived. Sim had managed to make my photos for the Three Peaks look stunning. Amazing what a talented guy can do with Photoshop, eh? (Here’s what I did with them at flickr).
But my surprise didn’t end there. I also made it into the gallery.
I still need […]
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December 2nd, 2005
Over to Calderdale tonight for a spot of night riding. Wet and windy so a lot of people cried off, leaving only Me, ‘eck, and Ben.
Did I mention it was wet?
I was actually on time to the rendevous (Blazing Saddles) too. Blimey.
Ben went to the trouble of showing me some new trails. Nothing like riding […]
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December 1st, 2005
Today I should be topping and tailing my day with rides in the dark.
I went out this morning at about ten past seven, just as the eastern sky was starting to get lighter, turning from black to merely deep blue. I used to experience the dawn many times when I had a 20 mile commute, […]
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The things we listen to are occasionally logged on Last.fm

New! iPod updating courtesy of iScrobbler.
It doesn't update from the wheels of steel though :-)
Remember kids, vinyl can't carry Digital Rights Management.

in no particular order...

For all that we like the up-to-the minute offerings of the web there‚s nothing like a proper badly photocopied A5 fanzine or a glossily printed proper magazine to keep you occupied on the throne. Here, in no particular order, is our material of choice.

Singletrack

The Outcast

Dirt Rag

Bike
If anyone has a full set of NEMBA results (that‚s North of England for you colonial types) then please forward them.
sometimes you just gotta take action, or at least be able to get our hands on the FACTS