Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Don’t want to worry anyone (least of all myself), but it is only 38 days to Sleepless in the Saddle 2009. For those who don’t know, it is a 24 hour mountain bike race around Catton Park in Derbyshire and as a I’m a glutton for punishment I’ve signed up to do it. Sounds hardcore,...
Following on from a successful air can service on our Fox Float shocks, Jon and I decided the other day to do a wiper seal clean and lube on our forks. These things should be done every 15 hours of riding according tot the official Fox service intervals so it was time to do them....
The scene was set, End of Month ride at Afan Argoed. I met Jon, Dave and Dan at the leisure centre, we put the bikes on the racks and headed off to South Wales for a planned ride around the W2 trail. Jon and I stopped off for a Burger King breakfast on the way...
This weeks Ystwyth-MTB night ride was in the Dyfi Forest. Just Dave, Jon and myself this week and as Dave and Jon are pretty fast I had a pretty hard ride doing my best to keep up. It was a good ride in lovely conditions, hot and sunny. A little too hot really but we...
I’ve been quite pleased with my Mountain Bike maintenance skills lately. I took the rear hub apart on my Commencal Meta 5.5 the other day and gave it a good clean and re-grease and last week it was time to service the air can and check the seals on my rear shock. Jon wanted to...
Some guy producing a guidebook contacted Dave asking for some photos of people riding the trails at Nant yr Arian, so instead of a normal early morning ride we had planned to meet up for a bit of a photo shoot. We had hoped for a few people but it was just Dave and I...
I think I need to make a trip to Scotland soon. There are loads of really good mountain biking centres there and the new Red Run on Ben Nevis opens soon, June 24th to be precise. It is graded as a Red, XC route, but has a Gondola uplift to the start at 643m, and...
Although it was the Boardwise Demo weekend at Aberdyfi, there was no hint of wind so after taking Morgan swimming in the morning I met Steve and Darren (Bad Excuse for a Sailor or BEFS) at Coed y brenin for a MTB ride. It was a warm, sunny day and the car park looked quite...
Thanks to the fact that I have a lovely and very understanding wife (does that earn me some more brownie points?) I was able to get out for a MTB ride on Sunday. Rather than head to the usual trails around here I headed north for a ride under the mighty trees of Coed y...
You’ve heard of people getting things related to their favourite sports tattooed on themselves, but I managed to ‘brand’ myself by burning a perfect imprint of a brake disc rotor into my calf. I’m telling you, it’ll be all the rage before long, no self-respecting mountain biker will be seen without one, what better way...
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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