November 21, 2009 – 10:28 pm
I’ve been riding singlespeed almost exclusively this year. But today, reluctantly dug out the geared bike as a dodgy tendon in the back of my knee that has been bugging me since the last Brownbacks race (4 weeks ago) seems to be getting worse with each ride. The injury is not exactly painful, but more [...]
Just 2 days to go until Mountain Mayhem (and the weather forecast is dry(!?) mmm… we’ll see…). Took the ‘race’ bike (geared Voodoo) out last night, as its not been used since Enduro 6 and had vague memories of it sounding quite unhealthy during the race. Confirmed at the top of the first climb to [...]
December 7, 2008 – 10:11 pm
Short-ish icy ride on the iO - highlight of which was ‘crashing’ on black ice whilst climbing slowly and what I thought to be cautiously on a road section. I lay in the road for a few seconds trying to work out if everything was intact as I came down hard considering I was [...]
November 25, 2008 – 9:48 pm
The winter has knocked on the door, let itself in, poured a cup of tea and generally made itself at home so here’s a quick (think Haiku) and long over due update of my ’summer’* 2008:
The elbow healed.
Enduro 6 was dry
Sleepless was wet
Mountain Mayhem was wetter
Hit The North was wet
TransWales was very [...]
13 days post crash and I’m still in a sling. Although the effect of my bruised ribs has been more uncomfortable than the actual elbow fracture (I fractured the ‘radial head’ by the way). The ribs had me really worried as it really effected my breathing on my right side, this was confirmed by [...]
February 27, 2008 – 11:10 am
Doing a regular loop around Chinley Churn last night. Pulled my front wheel up at a stream at the bottom of a descent and the next thing I knew I was lying in the sand (its like a beach up there!) nursing my chest that had just slammed into an embedded rock, and couldn’t I [...]