...fun at first...
....good for throwing the bike around...
....increasingly knackering....
....eventually hard on the calves and back!!
After finishing a particular work project (assisted unwittingly by ernie!! :wink:), treated myself to a break and a few hours of snowy riding. Glorious day, snow was perfect, not too think but covered up the mud and sand and made some steep bits FUN!! About 1 1/2 hours from home and on a nice steep technical section. Very slippy so I was taking it a bit easy when half way down PING the seat post snaps off...cue painful roll in the snow!!. Bu$$er 90 mins from home but cant be that hard without a saddle even in the snow.
Rest of the descent actually a lot of fun and next 20 mins ok. Feels like being thrust forward in aggressive XC position. Then as the snow gets deeper it becomes hard work. Ten minutes late inevitable crash on another techy bit. Slow twisting fall which ended in handlebar ripping right through my trousers and taking a nice 6"of flesh with it. Blood starts gushing (bad enough) then realise I am exposing myself (oops) and still an hour from home. OK this should be interesting. Now spds are completely frozed so can only clip 3/4 in. Fortunately 90% off road through forest and only came across one couple walking their dog (sorry, pls dont report me!!). Eventually make it to the safety of home with calves and back burning but blood now stopped only to find wife's friend at the front door. Poor girl, not a pleasant sight to be greated with.
The art of coarse MTB. Great shame as conditions were awesome and this was my first real snow ride 
:(
Now to check the wound again and buy a new seatpost 
