We’re here*, despite the best efforts of the job-specific-fuck-you attitude and downright nastiness of US customs and the piss poor music taste death wish yellow cab driver we are here. Whilst we arrived unscathed yet tired, the fine baggage handling miscreant low brow genetic deadends at the airlines however have damaged Mrs Fat lad’s bike […]
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Fat Lad Public Service Announcement
September 18, 2008 – 6:31 am
USA we are packed, ready and inbound. Don’t say you haven’t been warned. The big metal bird leaves tommorow and the bikes and soul stealers are raring to be let free in the land of the big portions. Fat Lad Excuse the piss poor image at the top of the post but all the good […]
Fat Lad Plays With His Spanners
September 13, 2008 – 1:48 pm
To fit these: Long term readers may remember that I fitted the very same make of pedals a few years back: Clicky I’m quite happy with how they have performed considering how much muddy abuse they’ve received and how little maintenance they have been given. And I always hated that rug….. So when it come […]
Welcome to The New Fat Lad Rides Again
September 9, 2008 – 2:59 pm
and isn’t it pretty? Massive thanks to Chris for the design and coding you’ve done yourself proud mate and I couldn’t have done this without your expertise and advice. Big Thanks too to Mrs Fat Lad for the picture at the top and her constant goading to get this new site up and running. The […]
Fat Lad Dashes Through Dalby Forest
August 28, 2008 – 8:00 am
One from the depths of time this Phil and I hit the North Yorkshire MTB playground some time early May…. For a change I was running late. Phil had turned up and somehow I had turned a mornings worth of preparation into a last minute dash. Deservedly berated I was ready at last. Heading out […]
Fat Lad’s Last Lap
August 11, 2008 – 2:30 pm
SITS 2008, it was my sixth endurance event and despite putting my self through 132 hours of mostly mud filled hell I’d yet to swing the last lap. It might just be our crew of ragged trousered cyclists who hold up the last lap of an endurance event in misty eyed esteem or maybe pedallers […]
Fat Lad’s Tag
August 4, 2008 – 6:37 am
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 […]
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’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 […]