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Schralping teh gnat.
Being the best sponsored but least skilled rider in the UK.
My biggest strength is climbing. Biggest weakness - jumping.
Eating chillies , bloody luv food full of chillies and sweating I can sweat my own body weight on a normal ride - not a good combination.
skill: jumping away from a bike when it goes out from under me
failing: I'm a really talentless mincing descender, primarily due to a lack of practice
can you see a pattern 🙂
I used to think I had a decent sprint, since starting racing on the track I realised I don't.... Where I do OK is repeated hard efforts above threshold, recover and do it again. My overall level is still pretty poor, but making progress.
I'm not bad on the 'buying bike stuff' front either...
Suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.
I'm good at eating Chillies as well Lol.
But on the bike.... solid all round on and offroad, raced on and off for years, never really challenged the podiums but respectable. What I am good at especially considering my 55yrs is putting down big 1-2 mins bursts of power. Got pages of Strava kom's sprinting up short power climbs,powering along undulating roads and trails. Couple of minutes max then it goes pear shape very quickly. Definitely a one trick pony 🙁
I'm pretty awesome at buying a great bike (Whyte G150) then instantly worrying that I've bought the wrong one because despite the fact that it's super comfortable, far more capable than I'll ever be, and that I've put some higher rise Renthal bars on it to reduce the 'problem', due to the fact that I'm quite a tall guy the seat sits a bit higher than the handlebars at full extension (Reverb).
Spellling. I'm rilly gud at spellling.
Pretty good at slow balance-based stuff, and loose rocks. A strange combination I know, but there you go.
Talking to myself
Gurning like Wurzel Gummidge on ecstasy
Picking the shittest, most dead end line seemingly at will
Being fairly determined once I've got something in my head. Usually involves a climb.
Im told im good at looking like a mass murderer, also not bad at being a gobshite and general tosser of epic proportions. 😀
Eating.
Going on holiday. (Assuming I've planned it)
Off the bike? Airports..
Reckon I have some decent strava times if they existed for getting from the plane to clearing immigration in several Australian airports.
On the bike - I do a good line in suffering when I'm in the mood for it, and with some extra fitness I realise I've become more tactical in races along with looking like the beer swilling enduro rider who can shift a bit on the XC bike