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Blogging gone mobile!

You can now be bored by me anywhere in the world! (unless it costs anything)

Fully Functional Bikes Shocker!

Unbelievably I now have 4 fully functional bikes! You will see above my new 7-speed luxury going to work bike (my first ever mountain bike no less!), which works fine, despite being a little small and having a slightly disturbing clunk around the bottom bracket or pedal bearing area at low speed.


My Orange Clockwork now runs without the chain tensioner trying to change to a non-existent 'other' gear, and even the Whyte is working (prior to brake change). The Epic has had a new front shifter cable installed, although could eventually do with the shifter pod replacing as the return spring is going on the lever.

Now all I have to do is ride them!

New Brakes

I got so fed up with the constant problems arising from the Avid Elixir 5s on the Whyte that despite them now seemingly working without breaking every time I take it out, I accidentally bought some Hope Mono M4 Evos...brand new too. That should give me insane amounts of stopping power, although I'll still inevitably crash by doing something stupid.

Lets hope (not intended) that they don't vibrate too!

Download 2012

I genuinely don't think I've ever looked forward to a festival this much. There are so many must see bands, quite apart from Metallica playing the whole of the Black Album, the album that turned me on to metal and into the slightly strange person I am today. Slash, Fear Factory and Machine Head on day 1, Steel Panther, Tenacious D and Metallica on Day 2, Kyuss Lives, Megadeth, Soundgarden and Sabbath on day 3. AND Anthrax at some point. Even Terrorvision will be worth a watch. Unbelievable.

If Motley Crue, Weezer and the Anti-Nowehere League get added (highly unlikely) it would make it the event of a lifetime.