There’s mud up that mountain!

Posted by: Martyn    Posted date:  April 3, 2010  |  No comment



First ride & something tells me the tyre choice was wrong...Totally clogged up by North Wales finest goop! Still, the weather held up & made for a glorious ride. I appeared to have forgot to pack fitness & nerve though (maybe something to do with stacking it on my first run due to muddified front wheel doing its own thing) but I'm sure some practice will sort that out. After getting mauled by some proper border collies (emabrassing as one near took my shorts clean off!) not a soul up the mountain. Just brilliant, if a little spooky. Always good to discover some new routes as well....

Ready to roll

Posted by: Martyn    Posted date:  April 2, 2010  |  No comment



New Maxxis Minions fitted to the rig... Drivetrain scrubbed clean & shiny... Only Mother Nature to get in the way Morning ride it is then!!!! Plllleeeease be nice!

Thank Crunchie its Friday!!!

Posted by: Martyn    Posted date:  March 18, 2010  |  No comment



A shameless plug for a small but happy band of Crunchie devotees! Its a celebration of chocolate, honeycomb, & Friday! Why not head over to the Facebook page to see what all the fuss is about?! Thank Crunchie its Friday! facebook group

Spring is definitely here…makes you want to ride no?

Posted by: Martyn    Posted date:  March 13, 2010  |  No comment



Right. That's it. Bike's getting dug out!

Had a bad day? How can this NOT make you smile!?

Posted by: Martyn    Posted date:  March 13, 2010  |  No comment



Not normally one for forwarding pictures of kittens etc etc, but....

It’s a relief to hear the sun has enough hydrogen left for at least 5 billion years

Posted by: Martyn    Posted date:  March 7, 2010  |  No comment



Finished watching Wonders of the Solar System on BBC 2 & I'm amazed at how much I learned (like how the Aurora Borealis is caused). And its a bonus of course to hear that they don't think the sun is set to switch off any day soon...that reassurance is always nice. Really worth catching it on iPlayer & the series continues next Sunday... Read the BBC site on this here

But that can’t mean me…

Posted by: Martyn    Posted date:  March 7, 2010  |  No comment



Its interesting. Something like the modern-day equivalent of being compelled to touch a wall marked "Wet Paint" perhaps, but for some reason it seems that rules, advice, guidelines etc just don't apply to us. I mean, we know they exist but they don't actually apply to us We started seeing this a lot at the beginning of the year with the bad weather. "Stay at home...only travel if absolutely necessary" said the news bulletins. And the roads were full (I was one of the queueing crazy ones before this sounds like a soapbox rant). Even the hospitals announced that people should only come...