Sam and I went for our first bike ride yesterday, it was fantastic. We went down to Whittlingham lane park and rode the track alongside the new broad, Sam did really well – going a lot further than I’d exepcted and showing an occaisonal good turn of speed too. He’s still running stabilisers [...]
Poor Sam had a pretty miserable weekend. Friday evening saw us abandon our grown-up dinner party in order to take him to A&E after a trip caused him to clout a piece of low furniture with his head and open a 2cm cut beside his right eye (could have been a LOT worse). [...]
Okay, it’s more of a Handjob XC by Cove bikes but it got you reading, eh? Jed has kindly lent me his old Handjob frame to build up and see if I like it – I’ve been without a full-on hardtail since I sold the Ibis Mojo a couple of years ago (I still have [...]
It was a weekend of extremes, too much alchohol, not enough sleep and the final exorcism of the creak in my road bike that’s been driving me mad for a month or more.
I’d thought for ages that it was the cranks and so I set about removing the elderly bottom bracket and installing a shiny [...]