Month: October 2010

  • the subtle nuances of urban recycling

    Well despite the forecast the weather was fine, in fact it was a wonderful day to be at the allotment. For those who chose indoor in favour of outdoor – well, you missed out. Plenty got done and we had a good time doing. We now have a great new race line on spoons with a nice little rock garden. I say *little* because compared to those found on rockier slopes it’s not much of a feature – BUT given our loamy location you’d be encouraged to focus upon the sheer determination required to locate and assemble such a collection of rocks. Sure it all looks a little muddy right now, but one shower and every stone will shine through.
    The corners before will offer some flat out drifty lushness and will develop as they get ridden over the next few months. Nothing completely new, just subtle tweaks to make it all knit together with flow.
    As for the rest of the allotment; we sorted every bit of drainage de-clogging old and cutting new to keep the trails running sweet come rain or shine.
    Thanks to those that came and did, hope to see some more of you next time….

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  • Easy breezy ride

    Ok , it’s not an epic or weekly club event but it was arranged through the club forum and is open to all…

    This weeks “easy breezy” Saturday club ride was well attended by ….. Err…… Me and and Al , silly really as the weather window Al predicted came good and we had a proper sunny one !

    Shame on all you folk’s with better things to do like trawling the aisles at Sainsbury’s and taking the kids to ballet etc – you really need to get your priorities sorted !

    Starting from the BCC car park (closer to home than the H & G) we rode down into the darkiside/doodles area and made a safer entry to the area from the road that we can use in future, no undergrowth was harmed in the making of this entrance , in fact it was more a case of making the existing moss and twigs more comfortable. – and it’s less visible and safer to enter from the road !

    We then rode around a bit trying to link all the bits of sweet singletrack together in that side of the woods – we even found a boardwalk (well sort of) to try if we can find it again on Tuesday

    Down the road road, along crouching Tiger, hidden Dragon and sidewinder
    etc, etc ( oh yes Al has names for all of them ) and back to the without incident or bus collisions.

    Don’t forget it’s Wales next Sunday wooohooo!