Boredom and Facebook marketplace are dangerous bed fellows. One minute your idly scrolling through the seemingly endless adverts for tools that look like they've been stolen out of the back of some poor sod's work van interspersed with pictures of furniture from the house that taste forgot , and then you see it - the …
Tag: MTB
Falling Back In Love With a Bike – it’s never too late to save a relationship.
A few months ago I wrote a heartfelt post on my relationship breakdown with my mountain bike. I was feeling very low and things were very bad between us, but after a lot of soul searching I'd realised the fault was 98% mine and if things were going to have any chance of working out …
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Its Time For Those ‘What Will The New Year Bring?’ Musings…….
First a spot of admin if I may, after faffing around on the free loading version of WordPress for almost 10 years I've finally moved to a properly hosted website hence the much snappier web address for The Declining Cyclist multiverse that probably nobody will notice, its simply now http://www.thedecliningcyclist.com . This move to a …
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When a relationship breaks down – Falling out of love with your bike :-(
There often comes a tipping point in our relationships. Sometimes you just know deep down that things just haven't been right between you for awhile, and then it just takes a little nudge to plunge that interpersonal dynamic in full blown crisis mode. Questions abound, chasing each other around in an endless and remorseless loop …
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When Illness strikes – and the winter training plan goes straight down the toilet……..
So the winter training and fitness plan of riding my bikes as much as possible while also going to the gym for finely honed and focused strength training to address my myriad of physical weaknesses has been going really well lately............... not....... Yes in the last couple of months I have achieved precisely zero miles …
The Three Part Plan to Avoid Mountain Biking Mediocrity Part 2
Ok, so if you read Part 1 and its preceding post you'll know I'm on a three step improvement plan to elevate my woeful off road riding levels after a pretty disastrous last outing on the MTB. So Part 1 was devoted to fixing my sadly neglected and slightly broken steed. With its braking performance …
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The Three Part Plan for Mountain BikingMediocrity Part One
Just a quick recap if you didn’t catch the last but one-ish post and hence aren’t already teetering on the edge of your seat waiting for this one …. Basically I rode my MTB, the bike was rubbish, I was rubbish and I fell off. So what am I going to be doing about this …
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A Three step Plan for Mountain biking Mediocrity.
Well my first foray onto the dirt in awhile didn't go very well. My poor neglected bike let me know that just pulling it out of the shed and slapping a bit of chain lube over the crustiness infecting the chain and sprockets just wasn't going to cut it, oh and the brakes had a …
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So…….. where have I been?
Well the answer is literally nowhere really. I just haven’t been riding much at all. I haven’t been injured, had the dreaded ‘C’ word, had all the bikes stolen …….. I just haven’t been riding. Since the last MTB ride I did at the end of January Strava tells me I’ve ridden my road bike …
New bike, new fears ……
The basis for riding heaven? So, for those that read my last missive, here is the result of much internet auction site searching in my quest to replicate the unobtainable Santa Cruz dream machine that realigned my Mountain biking expectations last time out. It’s a 2019 Cotic Rocket frameset and this will be the basis …
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