1 run today, too hot to do anything. i dont know how hot but too hot. put all my gear on and wandered down to the lift, ghost town, no riders about whatsoever. jus sat around all day, didnt do a run til 7.30. its a hard life.

off to look at an M1 tomorrow, hopefully not a nail. not ideal but it'll do.

longhorns last night rammed as usual. full of cocks.

peace.

And the lift queues vanish. Didnt appear from the appartment til 3 expecting it to be rammed with riders but lower lift was pretty empty. Expected there to be a massive queue for garbanzo then, but there were 2 people in front of me. Garbanzo is one hell of a lift up, snow beneath you still, and then you crest the hill and theres just mountain, a huge expanse of mountain.

Rode Petes IH again, not exactly fun, but its a bike, rode In deep, No Joke, Little Alders, to Too tight. In deep was a river for the top section, on my own didnt see another rider all the time i was up there, madness. Worried about ditching it but made it down ok. Bike took a beating, riding it on the bottom out bumper most of the way.

Went to Maxx Fish on err, one nught this week..last night was it? Who knows, live band, crap night. Decent party before hand tho. Garfinkles on Thurs for locals nights best night out in town by far. Long horns on a sunday is the place to be, which is where im going now. Laters.


WANTED.
BIKE.

Got up today, and thought bollocks to it, im riding. Took broken wrist Petes Iron Horse down to Fanatyco to get the brake that popped sorted. Took it for a spin down B-Line to Heart Of Darkness a few times. Then did Crank It Up to Fantastic, fantastic was rutted up to hell and gave the insides a good shake up.

Threw caution to the wind last run, Angry Pirate to A-Line. Was alright, unfit after no riding for 3 weeks. B line got boring after a bit it has to be said. Petes bikes way to small and i blow through the travel just sitting on it. But its a bike. Felt good to be back on a bike, as long as i dont crash its all good...if i crash its no spleen and pills for the rest of my life...

Race Day pics up.

Internet access is somewhat intermittent as im feeling too lazy to walk to the café everyday, and the slab of granite I live next to sucks any wireless waves out of the ether, so no signal for me.

Shot the Phat Wednesday race series last week, the pics are now up in the gallery, im gonna try and cover every race event, so keep an eye out for pics of you if youre entered.

Managed to blag it up the hill yesterday with the flashing of the battle wounds. The lifty said were not supposed to be up there, but I promised to stick to the fire roads - ahem…some dude shouted at us from the lift as we went down the side of a-line “where the f@#k are you going” - dick.

Top food tip of the day is to get into Mongoli grill before Thursday as that’s when the 50% off offer ends I think. Good food, cheap too, you pay by weight, petes came to £1.50, and the rice and soup is free – bargain.

No joy getting anything sorted about the snapped frame, so desperately after a new frame. Garbanzo opens on Saturday I hear, I so want to be on that lift, but I cant see it happening.

Sitting in Merlins at the moment enjoying the $10 pitchers of Kokanee, tastes like water but its cheap and allegedly 5%...cant get a damn wireless connection anywhere that’s free, so have to type this up and then wander down the café to upload.

Thinking of doing uplifts on Gargamel next week, hiring a truck out for the day, getting people to bus it out there, and then doing uplifts in the truck, just ram it with bikes and people and away we go. The word is it’ll take an hr to get up there each run, so we’ll probably only get 2 or 3 runs in in a day – we’ll see.

Off to the hot tub now I think, today has been one long dragging day – peace.