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Bristol bikefest – another great small-scale mountain bike event. I rode in the 12hr solo event and it was a hell of thing. They put together a nice course with loads of singletrack and attracted a perfect number of riders (maybe a 100 soloists… I’m rubbish at esitmating numbers). Even the start was amusingly low-key: . . . → Read More: Bikefest and more Linux tweaking …and that’s surely a good thing. Singlespeed UK champs were absolutely ace. Hamsterly is a great place to ride and the atmosphere all weekend was like music festivals used to be (except without the music which was, let’s face it, incidental to having a good time). Some tents, some booze and herbal cigarettes and 90s . . . → Read More: Too busy to blog Velcro is simple. Velcro is good. Why make a shoe like this when the old design always worked? To launch a “new model” every year? I don’t know, but I do know that my 3-strap velcro shoes lasted 5 years before the sole cracked. After about a month these new fangled shoes are being relegated . . . → Read More: Simple is good Go riding and you find it. 10 miles each way on the road going to work and back; get home and switch to my mountain bike; set off into the rain. It was an awesome mid-week adventure: hauling my way through boggy mud and clay. Normal climbs verge on the impossible, singletrack becomes streams and . . . → Read More: And there it is… The muddy footprints through the kitchen; the washing machine going 24/7; the OS map drying in the front room; the batteries charging in every socket I can get my hands on; the cycling shoes in the airing cupboard; the mud tyres fitted back to the bike with the recently un-seized hub. Shit ride on Sunday, . . . → Read More: What’s the point of it all? Neurosis Yesterday’s New Quintet Caol Ila single malt With those three, any week is a good week. 40 mile ride today, real training for endurance riding. Just to make things interesting, I swung back past my house at about the 3 hour mark to look temptation in the face. Then up a 1:4 hill, and hello lactic acid. Felt pretty good though and there’s slightly less reason to be scared of the . . . → Read More: Endurance training mind games Which is a relief. 2 successful donations now since I did and we can say that it was an aberration. Waking up to find little old ladies consoling me when I’d just got back from a week of mountain biking in The Alps was embarrassing. Hooray for eating before the session and hooray for spinach . . . → Read More: Gave blood, didn’t faint In my opinion, the best mountain bike enduro out there. It rocked. 40 miles of real mountain biking where sometimes it gets hairy and sometimes it’s just sublime. Incredibly friendly locals, great organisation and a free mug… what more can you ask for? Too knackered to write about the ride itself, but that’s a good . . . → Read More: Dyfi Enduro Yay, finally got sounds working on my PC. Maybe it was a bit ambitious running Linux on a fancy Shuttle SD11G5, but I’m finally winning the war. Fail to get Debian to install because Serial ATA isn’t supported by the installer, and the bleeding edge installer doesn’t work. Second attempt, try to install using debootstrap . . . → Read More: Sound at last! |
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