This weekend that passed was going to be ace.
Brill weather (check) - trailbuilding (check) - bike not broken (check) - nothing much else on (check).
website breaks - shite.
One new fancy pants dual 3.2Ghz Xeon w/ 4Gb of RAM and 2*U320 SCSI drives later, and the problem has disappeared. Anyway, so around this I did get some biking in, and went exploring locally.
I found a new trail, I christen it “the pipeline”. Its a bit overgrown so I might need to get going with some shears or something, but in the main it is all good. I’m not letting on at all where it is though, came across it through a bit of luck, essentially by riding every crappy bit of trail (that usually goes nowhere)! I also plucked up courage to do some 2-3′ drops that I found, easy once you do them a few times but get them wrong and there is the potential for bone snappage. The ride I went on this evening included all this, was probably 80-90% singletrack and was a touch over 2 hours long - ace.
As usual I have been looking at sexy new bike gear, and wondering if I can get away with another even lighter race frame considering I’m nearly 12 stone and do ask a fair bit of my current bike. On the short list: Rocky Mountain Vertex, Giant XTC zero (carbon back end). The Rocky Mountain has the real pimp factor and its handmade in Canada, but the Giant XTC is basically a better version of my current frame and I will not need any new stuff (seatposts/headsets/brake lines). Basically I anticipate I will come to the conclusion that what I have at the moment is fine and I don’t need anything else. Probably.
Random photo time, Stirling last weekend with some folk from EUCC.
