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12.05.2009
The wordpress site went down so I've put the old one back up and made a few small changes, with more to come shortly, along with some photos from the recent weekend trips to Wales and Scotland.
02.02.2009
Added some photos from a ride at dalbeattie on Sunday, was a real nice day though hard riding, single speed will not be on my bike much longer. For full photo gallery check out the Gallery on Jackrabbitt.net
14.11.2008
Some photos are up from a sunday ride out to Mabie Forest, where we did our best to ride the Kona Dark Side trail.
22.09.2008
Been out biking so much recently, quite a lot of trips to Ae and Mabie just sessioning the 4X and jump sections of both places. Feeling much more confident at hitting jumps and suchlike. Got a little windfall a few week ago so splashed out on some new Pike forks which feel so much smoother while riding both trails and jumps.
Work on the new Whinlatter trail seems to be going really well and I've spent quite a few evenings and weekends riding the route, mainly the last section on the North side. South side should be open by the end of October and is looking good so far.
A couple of new photos have gone up on the biking page too from the last few trips up to Scotland.
28.07.2008
As some of you may know my bike maintenance/technical skills are pretty poor and each time I have had an issue it has taken more time than usual to fix the broken thing that I have broken further trying to fix it, I have posted a few times now on Jackrabbitt.net about this.
Well after the latest broken shifter gears debacle I decided to run single speed, first time out with it was at Newcastleton on Sunday and I reckon it went well. I decided to run a 32 ring up front with the 16 on the back, fine for climbing if hill isn't too steep and not too bad for single track descents. Best thing is when doing any downhill you don't worry at all about the derailleur catching, gears skipping or even changing gear you just pedal, safe in the knowledge your fine unless you're chain snaps.
Hopefully some new pics from the day will be up in the next few days. Quite fancy buying myself a helmet camera now.
21.07.2008
Couple of new photos up from Sundays biking trip to Dalbeattie (and Mabie). For the full set of photos visit Jackrabbitt.net.
18.06.2008
Recently I've been out riding (mountain biking) with a bunch of guys and girls in the rather splendid Scotland. Since this seems to be now a rather regular thing I've decided to add a Biking gallery page too and change the gallery page to Unicycling.
Also go check out Jackrabbitt these are the folks I've been riding with of late and it's been heaps of fun, great bunch of people and happy to welcome newcomers to their ever expanding network of action sports fans. All biking images in the gallery are currently taken from the Jackrabbitt website and are of my first few rides with them all. Check the Jackrabbitt site for the full biking and other sports photos.