Life changes. Life gets complicated. Life starts. The circles and cycles change. Metaphorical and literal. I was blessed ten years ago to meet life long friends. They ride bikes. I ride bikes. Companionship cemented. Life changes. Life gets complicated. A full life and now; fulfilling. Customers, riding companions, new friends. A welcome evolution. Life changes. [...]
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Mrs Fat Lad is Fighting Back
July 8, 2012 – 10:16 pm
I am broken….. 6 weeks and 3 days ago I tumbled off my bike breaking my collar bone and damaging my elbow and shoulder at the same time. Sat in A&E I was not a happy chappy, in fact my mood got worse when the doctors started saying things like I wouldn’t be riding again [...]
Fat Lad Has a Minute
July 1, 2012 – 9:40 pm
I think this is a shared phenomenon regardless of riding discipline chosen. The moment where, if only in your head, you are a riding god. A muddy rock strewn 5 yard stretch of trickiness. Everything went right. Perfect line choice, roll in roll out huge grin. A few seconds of sheer joy. Worth every minute [...]
Fat Lad’s May 2012
June 21, 2012 – 9:33 pm
Nar then old cock. Getting art much? Gotta keep back legs going tha knows. Ride 2000 MTB miles May Miles Needed: 181.94 May Miles Done: 187.58 Year Left: 1267.97 Monthly Total Now Required: 181.13 Another huge chunk over this month’s target. The man is a machine… Ride the Colne Valley Challenge in under 4 hours [...]
Fat Lad’s Public Service Announcement
June 17, 2012 – 10:54 pm
Do you have a cyclist in your life? Have you noticed the following in the past few weeks? Irritability Mood swings Foul language Increased sighing and melancholic staring out of windows Have you heard the following? “F*cking British weather” “Really this rain would put Noah off” “I can’t decide who’s taking the piss more; Mother [...]
Fat Lad’s and The Trail Eight Track
June 7, 2012 – 9:20 pm
A friend of my father who drifted out of our lives as quickly as he’d floated in; was a man of far out ideas and off kilter thinking. Walking the hills, the sun was shining with full beam nostalgia strength. Yomping across dale, short naive teenager flanked by taller years of wisdom, listens intently to [...]
Fat Lad and the Christening of Collar Bone Corner
May 27, 2012 – 9:04 pm
It’s all about momentum. Descending your ally. Keep it on side; a little kick of the pedals here. A push of the bars there. So much comes from so little effort. Ascending momentum a fleeting friend. Pedals turned smoothly carry the relationship for so long. But momentum will flee on all but the briefest of [...]
Rider Down
May 23, 2012 – 10:42 am
Can you have a connection with someone you’ve never actually met? Through various means of online interaction you follow the days of people you don’t know and are invited to live the existence they choose to share with the digital ether. A rider I never met lost their life in the most tragic of circumstances [...]
Fat lad Rides Vicariously
May 20, 2012 – 10:17 pm
This post was originally to be titled Mrs Fat Lad goes all they way. But I thought better of it… At the worry of harping on about it Sarah really has got the bug. “What have *you* done to me?” is a question I get a lot now. I’ve been riding cycles in one way [...]