Fat Lad is, Sadly, Not Surprised By The Big S....

Time to throw some blog solidarity together and highlight something that stinks in the bike industry. Bike Biz Babe has highlighted this particular situation.

I mean, really! That's just not cricket.

Bicycle bloggers of the world unite:

Post up this link

http://www.specializedbicycle.blogspot.com/

and highlight this wherever you can.

Any ways in less vitriolic news second half of the Mayhem report will be soon incoming

Fat Lad

Fat Lad's Last Ever Post...

...as a free man.



9th June 2007 2pm and Sarah will make me the luckiest man in the world by becoming Mrs Fat Lad. I'll post up some shots but there will be no words; those will be for family and friends who were there for our very special day.

Fat Lad

Fat Lad Catch Up

Life is a little errmm interesting at the moment (all will be revealed later) so I've got much on the mind currently.

In the works is a very cool tool to replace the Route Images link on the left with something a little more dynamic.

Recently I rode with Highway Munky and had a giggle with a fellow biking blogger but alas any hope of writing the ride up is long gone.

Anyways the weather forecast for tomorrow morning's ride is good and sunny, the camera is fully charged hopefully adventures will flow.

Fat Lad

Spooky goings on.....

well not really..... got a write up about 75% done and hopefully should be ready before I crash tonight.

On the left should be two new links, one is blogrolls and t'other is Ghost posts.

The blogroll is just an easy way for me to keep up you up to date with the feeds I read on a regular basis without me having to use my god awful asp hacking every time I find a new one or another drops of the ethereal intarweb radar.

Now, Ghost posts are where I've got down my basic ideas/ride notes, or where I've started writing up and not had the heart or time to finish them. But there they are in all there all unedited glory with thier own RSS feeed and everything. I've a memory stick nearly full of these to add over the next few weeks.

So fingers crossed for an actual ride write up tonight

Fat Lad

Fat Lad says Feliz año nuevo

Happy new year to everyone. It's been a funny old year in the world of Fat Lad. It's been a year of firsts:

First 24hr event
First clearing of Keeper lane (trust me, it's a twat of a climb no matter how fit you are)
First conquering of cut gate.

The year in memory has also seen me lose over two stone (28 pounds to our trans-atlantic readers), get a hell of a lot quicker in the saddle and not actually be the slowest rider in the group anymore. I know it surprised me too.

The pootle crew has grown from the usual handful of miscreants to, well, two handfuls of regular miscreants.

For the year ahead I have my upcoming marriage to the understanding, intelligent and beautiful Mrs Fat Lad. We're putting in a Pootle crew team for Mountain Mayhem (the day after we get back from our honeymoon), 24/12 and Sleepless in the Saddle. I'm contemplating a 50k Merida (though Pete and Jim will have to bully me a little more for that one)....

So it's been a fan-fecking-tastic year, here's to you and yours.

Keep pedalling and smiling

Fat Lad