When I headed out for the first of my night double I was feeling good and strong.†‬If it hadnâ€â€™â€¬t been for stopping to help a guy out with his broken brake lever Iâ€â€™â€¬d have cracked the sub hour lap.†‬Back on summer tyres the sticky ground was now not dragging every ounce of energy […]
Author Archives: Fat Lad
Mrs Fat Lad Get’s her Seb on…
July 5, 2008 – 1:22 pm
The quite brilliant MTB Photgrapher Seb Rogers. The French say: Il pleut des cordes. – It’s raining ropesThe Spanish say: Estan lloviendo hasta maridos – It’s even raining husbandsThe Germans say: Es regnet wie aus Kübeln. – It’s raining like out of tubsWe Brits traditionally say: It’s raining cats and dogs. – Gosh old boy […]
Fat Lad and The Curse Of Mountain Mayhem pt 1
July 2, 2008 – 1:39 pm
The promise of good weather had long since evaporated as we packed up for Mountain Mayhem.†‬Because Mrs Fat Lad was well this year and cracking the whip to get me organised the van we had loaned from her workplace was loaded and ready to go the night before departure.†We had a good drive […]
Fat Lad Is Like…..
June 25, 2008 – 5:21 am
A dog with two danglys! If you don’t recognise the above, it’s the club logo. John, a design teacher* at a local school, produced the above for me.I’m made up. Genuinely touched and humbled. I really do have some awesome riding buddys. Fat Lad *That will be Shop to those the oter side of the […]
Fat Lad’s pre Mountain Mayhem Warmup
June 18, 2008 – 5:02 am
16 Gloriously sunny miles last night and I’m feeling good. A little rain on the way to work today but I’m feeling strong and fit. Superstition was strong last night with the pootle crew and I decided the stars/gods were telling me that Mayhem this weekend is going to be good as I cleared the […]
Fat Lad Rides the thgileD girD
May 29, 2008 – 9:45 am
With only Pete and I out for the morning it was a leisurely ride up with no start time to panic about. The glorious sunshine of the day was cooled by the vicious winds whipping round the hills and streets of my home town. This morning was the maiden voyage of Pete’s gorgeous new steed; […]
Fat Lad Rides To The Master Mechanic
May 15, 2008 – 3:15 pm
Leave you’re old pads in. Get a gert bif feck-off srewdriver in between them and force the pistons right back. That should do it. If not then take the top cap off the resevoir and do it agin. That’ll do itFrom here And… that’s what I did. The pistons? Oh yeah right back. The rest […]
Fat Lad Filling
May 14, 2008 – 5:20 am
My good friend Phillis and I zoomed round the Great Yorkshire forest the weekend just gone and my creative energies (darlings) are currently being channeled through the ether to you via blogger. Just slowly. In other news; despite exercising the most since I was a teenager, eating the healthiest since being a teenager my Weight […]
Fat Lad Could Be Unwell
May 6, 2008 – 4:58 am
The above picture is just to prove (mostly to myself I think) that the sun does indeed come out to play every now and again. Anyways, I think I’m not right. Whenever the sun is shining and I’m stuck indoors I get ill. According to wikipedia: The most common symptoms of SAD include extreme fatigue, […]