(Click me to see what I am ripping off…) Or… Fat Lad Rides Returns to the Wild Boar Challenge Every year the club puts in a good show for the Wild Boar Challenge. A cycle ride aimed at all abilities we all enter the 50k mission. Assembled and raring to go Stan winds his way […]
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Fat Lad Takes Flight
October 8, 2007 – 1:38 pm
Sorry my riding only buddies this one doesn’t involve any pedalling…. Christmas past Ma and Pa Fat Lad bought me a flying lesson to celebrate the birth of some long dead guy with a penchant for sandals sporting a phenomenal goatee. With the first free weekend since the wedding I gleefully organised to get behind […]
Fat Lad Has Seen The Light
September 27, 2007 – 1:47 pm
How new tech is this, written from a pda waiting in our new offices for the construction crew to finish up. Anyways… about 2 1/2 years ago (i’ll linkify later) I got some new lights and although they’ve performed really well it’s time to retire them. Step in my new lumicyle hid jobby. They’re new, […]
Fat Lad Wishes….
September 19, 2007 – 3:08 am
I wish I could climb like Jim. Ascending the hills with speed, strength and deceptive ease. I wish I could descend like Gezz. Hurtling down the hills with abandon, skill and balls. I wish I was as mechanically gifted as Pete. To be able to see something, take it to bits and whizz it back […]
Fat Lad Has To Ride
September 8, 2007 – 10:10 am
A certain UK bike journo said in an interview (in Dirt Rag) that he doesn’t feel the need to ride like some people do. Upon reading this I thought it was odd for someone whose very living depended upon our two wheeled hobby to say this. It seemed so alien to me not to have […]
Fat Lad is….
September 4, 2007 – 3:05 am
not sure what to write actually. Jane Tomlinson died yesterday. I’ve never been one for hero worship, our idols always seem so human after all. But I think our very own Leeds lass was the nearest thing I’ve ever had to a real hero. Links Local Presshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/6976050.stm Her ride across Americahttp://www.bbc.co.uk/leeds/content/articles/2006/06/30/jane_tomlinson_usa_20060630_feature.shtml National Presshttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2162084,00.html Fat Lad
Fat Lad is Fecked
September 2, 2007 – 10:58 am
It’s all Dave’s fault. This morning I wandered over the the ASDA car park to round up any riders joining myself and the Chip Shop Crew. Waiting under grey skies Tom and Dave were already out of their cars and raring to go, compared to Amy still in her pyjamas it was an unusual sight. […]
Fat Lad: From One Extreme To The Other
August 31, 2007 – 12:49 am
A quicky this morning, first up a huge well done to the young Peckover who will by the time I have posted this done 214 miles this week on pedal power alone. I only manage about 200 miles in the month. I said it last night and ‘ll say it again here: You’re not right […]
Fat Lad Has The Ride Of His Life
August 28, 2007 – 4:35 am
Let’s start this with a little bit of good news, Fat Lad has a new bike. It’s very light, it’s very quick and it’s very orange: It’s maiden ride was at Sleepless and in hindsight riding a new barely fettled bike at an endurance event was not one of my better ideas. With my latest […]
Fat Lad is Sleepless in the Saddle Again
August 15, 2007 – 11:27 am
The weekend of August 10th 2007, with it’s crystal sky full of fluffy white clouds and diving swooping propeller planes was more than reminiscent of a Mint Sauce strip and perfect for this years Kona Sleepless In The Saddle. Everyone’s favourite whippet James “Jim” Lister worked bloody hard in the “Solo Men” category taking the […]