Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
As you may know, I’ve already posted a blog entry here asking what I was letting myself in for with the Mawddach Goldrush mountain bike ‘race’. That post has received a few comments and has been making me look forward to the event in a couple of weeks time, even if it is with a...
Before I start I should point out that I’m an enthusiastic amateur so this is by no means a professional test or review. Also, this is my first full-suspension mountain bike so I’m not making comparisons to any other models here. My previous mountain bike was a hardtail, a Specialized Rockhopper, so I will be...
My parents are here this weekend so yesterday we took a drive up to Glaslyn lake for a little walk and a picnic. When I got there, to my surprise I saw someone I knew setting up to go for a kitesurf on the lake there… Totally illegal of course seeing as it is a...
I’ve been wanting to treat myself to a full-suspension mountain-bike for a while now. Maybe it was just peer pressure and trying to keep up with the ‘Jones’s’ but there’s nothing like a nice new toy to keep the motivation u. Trouble is there’s just so much choice. For a start there’s the amount of...
I’ve recently started swimming again. Those of you who knew me a while back probably won’t believe that I ever stopped as I used to swim almost every day, and twice a day fairly often. I kept it up whilst at uni too, but building a house, working, getting married and becoming a Dad all...
Morgan and I headed off this morning to a top secret location to hide a new geocache as part of the Assume Nothing Wales series. The weather wasn’t great, grey and overcast with snow around in places so we wrapped up warm, parked up and headed off to the chosen spot. Morgan was on his...
A couple of weeks ago I met members of the Ystwyth Mountain Bike Club at Penmachno in North Wales for a ride around the trail there. It was my first visit to this trial and I loved it. It is very different to normal ‘Trail Centre’ trails. For a start it is hidden away in...
Well, my car is now officially run-in… It clocked 100,000 miles yesterday. Roll on the next 100,000. Of course when I post that my mountain bike has clocked 100,000 miles then that will be something to celebrate!
Just a few photos from a recent walk along the Leri. As you can see it was a fairly sunny day, but cold as well. In addition to the horses we also crept up on a large flock of Geese on the Leri.
Not content with washing my iPod earphones in the washing machine, I accidently put my £130 Garmin Foreunner through a standard 40 degree wash cycle and 1200rpm spin cycle yesterday! Probably not a great idea, but it looks fairly clean and still seems to work! I’ve been putting off using it whilst windsurfing as I...
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