Tsunami Relief

Don't take this as preaching, just a tug at your soul.

You've seen the pictures, and no doubt been amazed at the destruction caused. So put off buying that shiny XTR/widget thing for a week or so and help some less fortunate than us have a Happy new year.
Don't just say it.

We are humbled by our fragility and encourage support using the following links:

Cafod http://www.cafod.org.uk/
Care International http://www.careinternational.org.uk/
International Federation of the Red Cross http://www.ifrc.org/
Medecins Sans Frontieres http://www.msf.org/
Oxfam http://www.oxfam.co.uk/
Save The Children http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
Unicef http://www.unicef.org/
World Vision http://www.worldvision.org.uk/

Happy new Year to you all.

Cannock Chase day

Hit the Cannock Chase area with FenBoy and Martyn for some bank hol slopping round the trails there. Forgot how much fun it is round there, even on a singlespeed and after a hard days at the Cats event. The problem is always finding the good bits, thats my 4th visit and I've got most of the good natural tracks nailed, a GPS definately helps. These guys can help though. Chase Trails They are building a route called "Follow The Dog.

Now we had 3 hrs and 25 miles of fun and never even touched on any of those trails, (Nige they start from the parking area I found you in, but that's for later) shows how much fun can be had round here if you add that as well, bring a strong set of legs with you though.

Bored at work like me try an old classic lemmings game/

Nice legs shame about the brain.

Cats Trailquest today, you know its a good start when you almost throw up on the first hill.
Then it gets better at the first checkpoint, hangover fuzzieness has me looking round like a
twat untill anotherrider points out you have to read the clue.
Clue! clue! oh shit we are in big trouble if thinking is required.

As it was the bike did that magic hangover cure thing after about an hour and I was
motoring, if not thinking straight. At the end I'd visited 240pts worth of places, but my
brain power meant they knicked 40 off me for dumb answers. The winner won with 210
points...DOH.

If you took part and your interested my route was generally anti clockwise and like this, I
was 1 min late back.Base- (missed 11 being dumb)-19-13-15-14-16-17-18-24-20-9-10-8-5-22-4-23-3-21-2-6-Base

Really chuffed at my speed 44 miles and strong at the end, party and ride is on.

Crazy Bloggers and Afan Trails

So are you doing the turn up at work and look busy thing that seems to happen at this time of year, yep me too no holidays here.
If your totally bored at a PC you could do worse than take a random tour and check out the varied, and it has to be said down right freaky,lives of other Bloggers using this process.Use that button at the top RH corner titled NEXT BLOG and have a prowl
There's some crazy shit out there, here's one I found unclejacks
There's also some vaguely worksafe ones, what about kinkylibrarian
and some well dodgy places for hanging out like livejournal
From this one, modern girls sound more fun nowadays than I remember them worcestagirls
If you find any mad ones yourself let me know, use that COMMENTS link below and leave me a note.
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The new trails centre at Afan is looking smart.

with future attractions being a comfy sofa filled cafe upstairs with Plasma screens and wireless Internet access. A great Balcony looking out onto the river too.
Check out their site The Drop-off when its ready.
Right a dawn raid to Afan is needed in January, how about Sunday 9th Jan then Guys.
A very merry Xmas to all Plumsters and site users out there.

Who is the Stig ?

Its amazing what little nuggets of tat surface on website forums.
I'm no petrol head, I drive a transit fer cristsakes, enough said, but for me Top gear is some of the most entertaining telly on at the moment. In our house that imortal question who is the Stig, is often heard.
Sundays showing in an F1 car round the track showed that it was
no ordinary driver, the field was narrowed and the Stig is unmasked (un-helmeted)

see singletrackworld forum for the reasoning.

Ironic really that he's a regular visitor to our neighbour at work,
Rockingham Speedway.

Big bike and Snow tyres

A weights session Friday and 30 hrs of work over the weekend and I'm doing a great Douglas Bader impression at the moment. (what do you mean who)
2 working weekends in a row and it sucks, and again forgotten what its like to ride a bike, this is getting too common at the moment.
At least that's a trip to Spains superb Andalucian trails paid for in January, 3 of us going now, still room for more.

Snows on the way it seems, pub crawl ride on boxing day anybody, these tyres might come in handy Nokia studded tyres

How's this for a bike

Built for a basketball player apparently. That's some scary height to fall from.
Full story from. http://gunnarbikes.com

A new route home Wahoo

Stumbled across some local construction work yesterday, on the Railway route South of Thrapston.
One bridge is finished and the other is in progress. (calm down BigRing)
That means the final step in my off ride route home is almost complete, Superb.
Soon I'll be able to ride almost direct to my door offroad, and open up more great loop rides.

Its possible I was the first person to cycle across the River Nene on one bridge yesterday since 1964, awesome.

Its amazing how much geeky railway sfuff there is out there about the railways see The LNWR route to the south of Thrapston

When its all finished the final destination will be Stanwick Lakes

Living in warehouse central has advantages

People at work seemed to be appearing from their dinner break with lots of huge boxes today.
Turned out Argos have grabbed a huge empty warehouse and are selling brand new overstocked items at half price.
Pallet loads of a whole range of printers, TV's and all household stuff is flying in and then straight out the doors.
That's my Xmas pressies done then.

With that and a free listing day on Ebay today you could make yourself some easy money with a van and a cedit card.

Living in an area stacked with tower block size depots comes in handy,even if we still have to travel miles to Ikea when their monster huge place blocks out the sun round here.

Birthdays are great

Even when there not yours.
Carrying on from the parents must shag in the Spring theory from last week its been another top week with pissups last weekend for Driller up North and the lovely Clare yesterday, Hi Honey.

There's enough chocolate and cream cakes around my house to give us all American waistlines, I am now in serious carbo, emmm Ok fat loading for the winter.
On the subject, what have Puppies and Birthdays got in common.............

Get over to the Merida site and start planning next year, entry forms available now.
Night ride course looks fun Guys.

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Ans:..........The more you have the stronger your sofa smells of wee.

Tues Ride carnage

When we left you boys me and Lloyd played skittles on one well slick corner
No damage though.



A new attempt at a rant page

So what will it do Mr Jack

Well hopefully it will allow a better Rant format
and for all Plumz riders to put stuff here too.
Like links Thats a different way to do a route map