DOH! Last night I managed to go for a rather good ride with very very good company but managed to forget my bloody riding shoes!! It will teach me that I must wander round the house reciting my mantras or I will forget vital riding kit…… Caged spd pedals and normal fashion trainers make riding…… […]
Author Archives: Fat Lad
Fat Lad Lives!
May 21, 2007 – 1:50 pm
Yes my loyal/demented readers I still live and ride yet. Real life currently consists of a very tiring day job and a very demanding wife-to-be cracking the wedding preperation whip come the evening. (Let it be said here now I will suffer for that comment). Currently mid-write up is Dashing Dave’s North Yorkshire moors epic […]
Fat Lad Leads Without A Safety Net
April 18, 2007 – 1:53 am
It was only my second ride out after being incredibly poorly the week previous. As he’s now running tubeless; Gezz had very kindly donated me some pre-loved continental Gravity tyres to orbit my rims and I’d driven to our meeting place so we could fit them. Chuckle Brother mechaniching aside they were on and seated […]
Fat Lad Has Been Very Poorly Indeed
April 12, 2007 – 9:07 am
Tuesday morning my dearest dad had roped me into helping him with some lifting in exchange for a breakfast at the local trade warehouse. (You see it’s not all glamour in the life of an international blogger/MTB legend) I knew something wasn’t quite right when I passed up the opportunity for a “Full English” and […]
It’s Hard Being Fat Lad
April 7, 2007 – 12:52 pm
Spring time in North Yorkshire, shorts on the Fat Lad: Roachy and Stuart leading the way: Stuart rocketing on, not even breaking a sweat. Behind the camera Fat Lad is dying: Hot sun, blue skies, gorgeous scenery. Does it get any better? A familiar site to Fat Lad Despite that look Roachy is joy, happiness […]
Pete Rides Like A New Born Foal….
April 2, 2007 – 10:28 am
With spring truly sprung, the trails are getting drier, firmer and faster. It’s brilliant. Today Pete and I rolled out for a short trundle so he could try out clipless pedals. Resident whippet Jim lent him some shoes in roughly the right size and had to stifle a giggle as Pete walked like Frankenstein’s monster […]
Fat Lad Catch Up
March 31, 2007 – 10:03 am
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 […]
Run Fat Lad, Run!
March 8, 2007 – 10:59 am
Shhhh, don’t tell anyone, we’ll keep it our little secret. Fat Lad isgetting some extra miles in. On the road. Utilising my old SaracenMaxtrax with some skinny slick tyres I’m firing to work and back a couple of times a week. Changed out of my work clothes and into some lycraI pulled the tarmac taunter […]
Fat Lad Tests His Future Marriage
March 5, 2007 – 1:59 am
For the last few Saturdays Mrs Fat Lad and I have been joining some other pootlers for fun and frolics on the trails of West Yorkshire. With a few rides under her belt Chip suggested us going for a steady one starting out from Ladybower. Sarah (for that’s Mrs Fat Lad’s name) was eager to […]
A Fat Lad Invitation
February 23, 2007 – 3:27 am
Dirty Burt said:One thing I’d like to do is… Ride with people I meet or talk to with these blogs. Either I come there or you come here, what do you say? If any bike blogger,Sascha, or even Juancho want’s to come to blighty to ride with my crowd then just shout….. I’ve a spare […]