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February 18th, 2008

Brutal Calderdale

Photo Copyright © and Courtesy Chris
Over to Calderdale to gatecrash Chipps’ 40th birthday I was pleasantly surprised by my fitness this weekend. Usually a trip to the valley is a chance to ride the latest Singletrack test bike. Last time I ended up on the very nice but wibbily-forked Kona Hei Hei. Nice, but I […]

August 10th, 2007

Lakeland Lugger 150

Riding Into Cumbrian Weather
If ever I needed a reason to put the Turner Burner back together then this is it.
Though all this girly talk of .gpx and .trl files smacks of emasculated navigation by GPS bollocks.

June 2nd, 2007

How Hilly Can Lancashire Be?

Why not find out?

May 21st, 2007

The ettiquette of arm warmers

After a scorching hot fifty-miler out into roadie training territory yesterday (a ride round one of the favourite loops of pretty much all the local racing clubs and the more-distant CTC branches) I was wondering about the ettiquette of arm-warmers.
Or more precisely, when can you dispense with them? And the knee warmers and overshoes. The […]

May 10th, 2007

Summer’s Here

Chasing The Sun
First off, I’d like to apologise for the resumption of normal service by the British weather. Tempted by the unseasonably long and dry spell I replaced the IRC Mud Mads that grace the Spot with some semi-slicks. The weather didn’t even have the grace to wait until I’d finished before pouring scorn upon […]

May 4th, 2007

Red Brakes Stop You Faster


April 27th, 2007

Atttempted Murder?

Spot the wire slung across the trail.
I didn’t.

April 26th, 2007

Trespass

24 April was the 75th anniversyary of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass.
I would have gone out and ridden cheeky on the day but my plans for a day off work were scuppered by, well, work. And we don’t talk about work here so we’ll say no more.
Anyway, two days late I rode out to the […]

March 24th, 2007

Levelled by BOB

Intervals (shush!) have revealed that I currently have more fitness than Kirsty.
So today, with a ten mile trip to the stables in the offing, things needed evening out. As we only have two properly road suitable bikes - the Lemond and the Pompino - she could have opted for gears. But, fickle thing that she […]

February 25th, 2007

I Hate Boardwalk

I can report that the North Face Trail at Grizedale has just recently achieved XC-Jey Boy perfection. The top surface has bedded down nicely. The finer gravel has been washed away, to be replaced by the remnants of pedal reflectors from inappropriate bikes, and the underlying rocks are showing through nicely to add interest to […]

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