You may or may not have noticed me whining and pouting on this very site yesterday. Despite my near teenage levels of sulking I did manage to get out the bike and drag it round our local trails. There’s nothing quite like turning a £2000 bike into a mud fuelled drive train shredding parts grinder. […]
Author Archives: Fat Lad
Fat Lad is Struggling
November 18, 2008 – 2:45 pm
And it’s not just the hills….. Fecking winter. Fecking replacing more parts again. Fecking not having enough hours in the week to do everything I want to. Fecking lack of willpower. Fecking non-existant self control when it comes to my bloody sweet tooth… And breath……. Urgghhhh. I’m glad I got that out of the way. […]
FL in FL: Wednesday
November 7, 2008 – 3:30 pm
Wednesday Braving the American road systems (they drive on the wrong side of the road someone needs to tell them before there’s an accident!) we zoomed to the quite frankly ginormous parking lot in the not-so-minivan. Outside Cabo’s Tacos I finally got to meet the man/legend Bigworm and we headed inside for some damn good […]
FL in FL: Tuesday
November 6, 2008 – 2:46 pm
Tuesday The metal bird dropped us in Tallahassee airport via a short stop in Atlanta airport. The stupid o’clock start out of Chicago crushed the spirit and walking through possibly the tiniest aerodrome I’ve been I heard someone call out my name. Al is not an uncommon name on the side of the pond where […]
Fat Lad is Feeling Guilty
October 27, 2008 – 2:20 pm
Autumn is in full flow and my poor numb toes have had enough. Painful digits decree that I must get some more winter boots before the really cold weather kicks in and with this in mind I headed out to a local bike shop to get some some new boots. That is; after I checked online […]
Fat Lad’s Commute
October 20, 2008 – 1:21 pm
This was going to be a twitter “inanity” originally but too much happened on the way in to fit into 160 characters… Most weeks I ride to work Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays on the (*shudder*) road bike. Mostly, for the traffic density, it’s quite incident free. I get the occasional SMIDSY* but otherwise it’s a […]
Fat Lad Has Found It
October 16, 2008 – 9:58 am
It was last seen here: and Tuesday night with good banter, great friends, an awesome ride but with shit weather it was found right about here: My Mojo. It’s back baby. Fat Lad Post Script: My adventures in Florida are being typed up currently. I really want to do the amazing time we had there the […]
Fat Lad Reaches Critical Mass: The Ride
October 4, 2008 – 7:36 pm
We had been in New York City for six days and the hustle and bustle of big city life had been truthfully about 3 days too many. From Penn station we took the overnight Amtrak to Chicago; nineteen hours of one of the last great American train journeys was a faith restoring journey we will […]
Fat Lad is Homeward Bound
October 3, 2008 – 8:37 pm
If I had to sum up America in one word it would be wow. All my preconceptions and stereotypes have smashed to be replaced by thoughts of the most welcoming, generous and kind people we can now call friends. In such a short space of time we have: Flown across the Manhattan skyline in a […]
Fat Lad Reaches Critical Mass
September 29, 2008 – 2:48 pm
Men, women, black, white, asian, the old, the young, the very young, punks, hipsters, hippies, blue collar, white collar, unemployed; they were all there. Road bikes, BMXs, Mountain Bikes, Recumbents, Cruisers, Commuters, Tall Bikes, Rat Bikes, Fixies, Trikes, Trailers, Cargo Bikes, Row Cycles and British Restoration Classics; they were all there. Bells, whistles, clown horns, […]