Nope I’ve not suddenly developed a need to go and spray walls in the more run down areas of my home town nor do I have to be at home before 9pm lest the Ministry of Love come for me, but I have been tagged by TOB. So onwards to more Fat Lad miscellany: If […]
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Fat Lad Hits The North
July 30, 2008 – 1:50 pm
With Hit the North being virtually on our doorstep the usual need for a days holiday had been waived and we headed out of Leeds post work leaving the new northern financial heartland behind us. With only a one hour drive to the venue my long suffering wife fortunately didn’t have to listen to too […]
Fat Lad and the Ultimate Bag
July 26, 2008 – 11:33 am
By a long suffering Mrs Fat Lad! Fat lad has been looking for a new riding bag for months. Originally he had a Camalback Cloudwalker then in a moment of Fat Lad madness it was upgraded to a Camelback Mule (even though at the time I commented that all his riding gear would not fit […]
Fat Lad’s Six
July 12, 2008 – 6:35 am
Woo, I’ve been meme spammed! Harp tagged me and I think it’s only fair to answer my readers ravenous appetite for knowledge with some little known facts about your chunky host. 1) I only have eight toenails. But I do have ten toes… 2) I’m actually a real lightweight when it comes to booze. What […]
Fat Lad Gets Tired and Emotional
July 10, 2008 – 1:06 pm
How do you write up 82 miles of shared pain, agony and just absolute fun? You don’t. Here are the pictures from our Leeds to Scarborough road trip. Quarter of the way there. Pete zooming along. Hitting the halfway mark. Stopping in Stamford Bridge. We still look quite fresh… Good of them to put a […]
Fat Lad and The Curse Of Mountain Mayhem pt 2
July 7, 2008 – 4:31 am
When I headed out for the first of my night double I was feeling good and strong.†‬If it hadnâ€â€™â€¬t been for stopping to help a guy out with his broken brake lever Iâ€â€™â€¬d have cracked the sub hour lap.†‬Back on summer tyres the sticky ground was now not dragging every ounce of energy […]
Mrs Fat Lad Get’s her Seb on…
July 5, 2008 – 1:22 pm
The quite brilliant MTB Photgrapher Seb Rogers. The French say: Il pleut des cordes. – It’s raining ropesThe Spanish say: Estan lloviendo hasta maridos – It’s even raining husbandsThe Germans say: Es regnet wie aus Kübeln. – It’s raining like out of tubsWe Brits traditionally say: It’s raining cats and dogs. – Gosh old boy […]
Fat Lad and The Curse Of Mountain Mayhem pt 1
July 2, 2008 – 1:39 pm
The promise of good weather had long since evaporated as we packed up for Mountain Mayhem.†‬Because Mrs Fat Lad was well this year and cracking the whip to get me organised the van we had loaned from her workplace was loaded and ready to go the night before departure.†We had a good drive […]
Fat Lad Is Like…..
June 25, 2008 – 5:21 am
A dog with two danglys! If you don’t recognise the above, it’s the club logo. John, a design teacher* at a local school, produced the above for me.I’m made up. Genuinely touched and humbled. I really do have some awesome riding buddys. Fat Lad *That will be Shop to those the oter side of the […]