Lazy weekend, nothing but recovering from a hangover, buying Christmas groceries, fixing new bike hooks and fettling bikes really, bit rubbish as the weather was good, still if I commute both Monday and tuesday and then ride in Epping on Christmas Eve and get a Crimbo day ride in I'll be doing well. Annoyingly I think I have too many bikes, I'm really running out of space, it's going to be a struggle when the IF comes for room. I guess that means that once in the new year when the Scott is paid for it and perhaps the Chameleon will have to go, I really like the Chameleon it's been ace but nothing will actually cover up for the fact that it's too small for me and beats me up. I suspect that I'll just flog the frame and replace it directly with a Cotic Bfe in a size that fits, I'll still have a big burly bike just one that I can ride in comfort... Bikes are now on a strict one in one out policy I fear. I'd like anothe blinglespeed but if I do the Kona will have to go. I think I actually need the following bikes: Commuter - AKA ...  Read the rest of the entry...

Overland home today and it was delayed while the police searched three trains including the one I was on for a suspected gun man at Liverpool Street station. They seemed pretty thorough what I found a bit of a worry was the fact that they were all body armoured up with Kevlar shields and were walking through the train like that looking for an armed suspect, that could have been messy, it hadn't dawned on half the carriage I was on until I suggested it to the bloke next to me! Still only held up for twenty minutes, more exciting than the usual signal failure at Bethnal Green.   Read the rest of the entry...

Where is my IF it deels like forever since I ordered it, I want it now even if I'm not going to ride it till it's sunny and the trails are buff, perhaps... Is it bad that the next thing I'm thing about is a 29er by a super niche builder? Why are bikes like crack, why is writing a blog post so cathartic when you've had a couple of pints of Harvey's is it bad that I'm considering going ringing on Mondays as well, shit man, my life is mental......   Read the rest of the entry...

Well after yesterday's moody philosophical post, the second post in two days realtes entirely to TV's cooking hottie. This evening Christmas treats and lifestyle moments were getting a bit much and I Was just shooting at the telly when she crumbled bacon over potato skins... Really how can you not ne instantly smitten by a woman who crumbles bacon over food scherwing..........   Read the rest of the entry...

An online debate with an acquaintance today has set me thinking about political responsibility, and to some extent the more I've thought about it the more it's worried me really. There's little doubt that the general populous of the Third Reich share a degree of responsibility for the holocaust, it's occurrence and tacit approval, despite the true nature of the horrors being kept from them by the Nazi propaganda machine. Strange then that in these days of twenty four hour news coverage in the media driven society that we live in, that any protest of what is rapidly turning into an Iraqi genocide is virtually non existent, I'm ashamed to say that my voice has been pretty much absent from the protest. Even with the benefit of hiondsight we don't seemed to have learned from our mistakes, it makes the words of Pastor Niemoller perhaps even more poignant and telling know that the day they were written, I feel quite ashamed "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for ...  Read the rest of the entry...