I've come up with a theory. I think the less hair you have the faster you go......well it seems that way as Dave and Troy get stronger each ride, especially the muddy ones, ok all the rides recently.
Thetford round 2 next weekend will reveal all.

Speaking of our polished friends, did you see the clip of old Malverns action on TV burp this week, classic bike carnage location long before the easy access to good digital cameras, I've got some superb crash photos from there somewhere, will have to find them and scan them in.

Another month glides by, 600 miles on the clocks but a few too many cakes in the tank and not enough real training, especially on the weights, means could do better. At least the kit is handling all this crap, the Blur LT is a revelation, it keeps astounding me just how good this bike is, the Intense would have chewed up and spat out a set of bearings by now. I have just taken off the RP2 shock, pressed in another bottom bush (800 miles) when will that slight wear part be sorted?

This was literally a 5 min job and no great hassle with engineering stock DU bushes, the enginnering on the BLT, titanium chuncky fastners, and everything lined up spot on, superb.
Whilst the shock was off I cycled the swinger through all its travel, still fluid and lush, looks like its possible the yanks have finally discovered seals at last.
The Intense would have needed a hammer to do the same task after some winter abuse!

Riding Through The Morph Machine

The Bacon Lettuce Tomato already needs some garnish......(Blur LT come on keep up).
The frame had any tat thrown on it I could find, much to the disgust of some other bikes, and the near demise of my shoulder at Thetford after stealing the good brakes off the race Turner.

I like it...and it deserves some good kit now its earned a home. The new Fox forks have to go on for this weekend, the Mavericks have popped their clogs for now, and are not damped enough even in top tune. Trouble is as a sucker to marketing...........sorry progress they are the new 15mm QR through axle type that Fox and Shimano have come up with for 09. Good principle guys, quick releases are left over from our flexy roadie friends, but at least sort some hubs out to go with them.

BETD do a 15mm QR hub right now, I phoned them Tuesday and a freshly built hub with a Stans 355 rim arrived in my lap at work Wednesday dinner time.....Brilliant service I'll be using these guys again, check out their site they are engineering bikers.

Now another thing Fox are forcing us into is post mount brakes....bugger need one of them too, cheapo old Hope (boy its ugly) ordered and to the rescue and I'm ready to hit the hills.......just need to sort out my rebound damping, slow speed compression, and lockout blow off......help!!!


The bike now looks like its gone through an upgrading machine and got stuck at the head-tube, so moving on it has to be the bars followed by the cranks.