Category: Bikes
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456 in the house
My trusty Santa Cruz Heckler is almost 5 years old. Its seen a few changes in that time, primarily a change from a DUC32 to a Pike, but on the whole its been a great bike I enjoy riding. About a year ago I flirted with a Chameleon frame instead, but for various reasons, primarily…
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Longleat Trails – Reserection
This last weekend was the first ‘dig day’ of the Black Canon Collective, which is a new club I’m helping with that was started to make the old unofficial Longleat trails official. Its been a fair while since Longleat shut the place down, for totally understandable reasons, and its been a fair amount of work…
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Bristol BikeFest 2008
After week of the weather “Will it? Won’t it?”, the sun came out for this years Bristol BikeFest. Last year Bob and I wandered along on the Sunday to watch Neil plug around for 6 hours solo and walked much of the course – it looked quite fun, though there was little vibe in the…
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Col’s THE ONE carbon zebra
My mate Colin has a new helmet. Its rather spangly 🙂 He’s not seen it yet, so for him, heree’s Bob modeling it for you.
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Welcome to 2008, we’ve deleted you.
Happy New Year. It is indeed 2008 already. I hope you had a good 2007 and here’s to a better yet 2008. That said, if you are 1and1 Internet, may you have a thoroughly miserable 2008. For some unknown reason 1and1 have delisted ‘southerndownhill.com’ from their systems. The domain is registered ’til April, there are…
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Nearly all done.
Well, today was the end of it, almost. All the IT equipment went today, though oddly the chaps didn’t have room for the 42u Dell cabinet, so a quick call soon found it a new home up the hill at the CS department via the back of a Volvo estate! Rah! The last of the…
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Mmm moist
I discovered this weekend why the area in which I now live used to be known as Westbury Marshes. After riding out to Rudge, my sister and I headed down to Clearwood and the south-west along the edge of Blackdog Woods, to the A36 where the bridleway became this… Now it had been rather wet…
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Cwmcarn tomorrow
XC ride at Cwmcarn tomorrow, the weather looks a bit iffy but Cwmcarn tends to be mostly sheltered, other that the top skills loop. Hopefully I will not die of unfitness!
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My Nemesis Hole
I went back to Mountain Ash yesterday for a Dragon DH uplift day. This is the track were, 4 weeks ago, I found a new hole and went arse over tit and couldn’t walk for a few days after. On the first run down yesterday, I stopped at said hole to have a look at…
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Daytime TV sucks
I fell of my bike yesterday. It was very muddy, I didn’t see the hole on the backside of a jump until my front wheel was wedged into it. I went arse over tit, putting my leg into the stem and ending up lying in a stream of mud, that merrily flowed up my shorts…