Reports of my demise have been greatly under reported. However I still live. Just about. A week of very fine food and very little riding has played havoc with my waistline and so I’m pedalling like a lunatic to try and shrink it back to my previous *ahem* athletic physique. There are dark and malicious […]
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Fat Lad Wants to Know…
March 10, 2008 – 2:45 pm
What’s your favourite bit of trail? Not ride, but your one two or three hundred yard stretch of dirtly nirvana that you would put into every ride if you could. Thinking of this I was torn between the incredibly twisty bit of heart racing singletrack on the Long Newmiller ride (Wakey boys and girls will […]
Fat Lad Has Earned His Summer
March 5, 2008 – 1:07 pm
I’m fed up. I’m fed up of filth coated bikes. I’m fed up of the grinding paste West Yorkshire mud destroying parts. I’m fed up of being cold. I’m fed up of riding in the dark. But mostly I want to ride in shorts and summer jerseys again. I reckon I’ve earned my summer. Hell, […]
Fat Lad: In Memorandum
February 27, 2008 – 3:45 pm
Spring is itching to get out and do it’s thing to the trails. I for one can’t wait to get my arse-dragging-trail-rotovating-soul-crushing winter tyres off and put the hoops back into my Conti Gravitys. But with this change of weather I think about the riders past. The part time wheelsmiths (to quote stAn) who like […]
Fat Lad; Going Going Gone
February 22, 2008 – 9:55 am
Go Mountain Bike. Go Run. Go play football. Go Road Ride. Go Ski,Snowboard or Sledge. Go Hike. Just Go. Because sooner or later it’s all gone. Fat Lad (inpired by TOB)
Fat Lad, Mad For It In Manchester
February 6, 2008 – 11:40 am
One of the most rewarding things about riding with the crew I hang off the back of is the good people who I have managed to coerce into friendship. What makes it even more the humbling is that this is despite my many failings of personal hygiene and constant social faux pas. So with two […]
Fat Lad’s First:
February 4, 2008 – 3:05 pm
Guest Post. Sadly, I am so lowly in the blogosphere I had to part with cold hard cash to get one but, mleh. (Hell no one has even tagged me with that five thing meme…) If you can spare it go here an donate any amount you can spare. It’s for a very good cause. […]
Fat Lad Asks Five: Jeff Kerkove
February 1, 2008 – 12:26 pm
This will be the first in (I hope) a series of interviews with the great and good of cycling. Cutting through the nonsense and superlative of modern mountain bike journalism I will cut to the heart of what matters most. First up is half man half mile destroying machine Jeff Kerkove. Jeff’s blog is a […]
Fat Lad Plays Catch Up
January 28, 2008 – 4:47 pm
This time digitally rather than on the quagmired hills we call home. Right then first up – The logs link on the left (
Fat Lad And The Death of Summer
January 18, 2008 – 6:31 am
We used to just call it the jump. Sometimes we might expand it to “the jump at miggy woods”. A micro valley, a bombhole, with a smooth shallow transferring to steep run in with an equally tarmac smooth take off. It was our two wheeled playground. Regardless of skill any rider could become airborne merely […]