More mountain mishaps

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

On the way back from Innerleithen after the first proper day out of the year. Overestimated my abilities once again and tried to jump a fairly large set of doubles. Bottled it halfway over, mucked up the airborne part and found my progress halted by a tree. Well, the bike did anyway. I continued through [...]

Santa Cruz Nomad Review

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Of all the bikes I was testing, I thought this would be the one I’d most likely end up buying. Having read great reviews and been impressed with a Heckler, I was pretty keen to try it out. So off I set on the demo trail with high expectations. Unfortunately these were dampened fairly quickly [...]

Glentress

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

After celebrating the joys of interest free credit, I took my trusty new steed over to the bike tracks at Glentress. Suffice to say, much fun was had, despite the fact I nearly killed myself at least three times. Things have certainly moved on since I was a lad. We used to have to ride [...]