thank you hora great words and have made me think about it in a slightly different way.
on a different subject i think we should have a harlstone firs meet one time soon for the northampton lot?

is there a hidden lot of northampton riders i have discoved here? im excited to hear from more

looks awsomeeeee

no matter how pissed i am about the whole doecision i cant help but find relationship advice from singletrack rather amusing, is there nothing we cant fix on here ?
world domination i vote

hiya dave! wasent aware you where on here, yer im away from monday to friday this week in wales but im thinking friday night or saturday a one night stand could be in need haha.

yer but that would mean letting go and thats a big move, at the moment they are stuffed at the back of the wardrobe moving them to the bin could be hard. finding it hard to understand how you can have everything and then go to nothing. and they say boys are bad !

its bloody hard althought on the up side i find punishing my self physically helps to carm me, today i managed to do a 3hr run in driving rain and strong winds. dosent help how i feel know thought

work on musculer endurence in the gym, low weight but hight reps, this will come in handy as your muscles will be get bashed for 24 hrs

i was just starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel until i just heard she has started seeing some one else, feel so angry and as if im back to square one.

just grow some balls and get on with it…. 😛

because if you buy them food they charge you less ( i work in LBS)

yer mountain biking is okay in northampton i am in a resonably big cycling club (numplumz.com) and also have a few good riding pals from my sponsor (pitsford cycles), the youngest person i ride with is 24 and yer i do have a resonably large group of mates who i ride with ranging from 24 to 50 but i still find that its hard to talk about certain things to them as the age gap is quite big.
i think the time is going to have to come when i start going out a bit more but just dont want this to effect my fitness level or my riding time.
As for the girls im planning on moving to the countryside (lakes, peaks, wales) at the end of this year to work in a outdoor adventure centre so maybe there will be more chances of finding the right type of girl there.

bike is the main thing in the life at the moment followed by running, climbing, rucksacking, kayaking, sailing and collage (BTEC in outdoor sport 🙂 )

ow yer i do it for for my own good, i spend every penny i own on bike parts, ride every time i have a spare couple of hours and get huge kicks out of painfull gym seshions and pushing my body on long distance runs and huge rides. i know that because of cycling i am becoming a better person and have much more oppertunities ahead of me, but i still always wonder if im missing out on the “nights out”.

as for girls, thats something that does make me wonder. after the last relationship ended it really made me think weather it was worth trying to hold down a relationship with a girl i couldnt particapate in outdoor adventure with, and as of yet i have never heard of a nice girl that loves the same things that i do.

yer i just think its diffucuilt for friends and the ex to understand why im not into the same things as they are and they struggle to understand the reasons why it dosent appeal to me. be young and into bikes in a big town isnt the easyiest thing.

so i guess i just screw the sterotypical view of the “youth of today” and just ride and do my own thing and your saying the rest will just come? lets hope so because i cant see my self leaving cycling, especially after my new xtc c3 😀

yer i suppose its posable to go out and not drink but in northampton i think i would be seen as a bit of a freak if i did that haha. i do get my thrills from riding and pushing my body to new levels of fitness, but do quite often wounder if im missing out on my youth. often wounder aswell if theres ever any good looking girls out there that you could go camping with and that would understand my pashion??

considerably higher but thats because im pure xc racer haha

i do also ride bmx on those cheeky few days, i did use to go out partying and all that but the group i used to socialise with have now turned to heavier drinking and harder substences which just dosent appeal to me, so im left with the dilemma of weather to become the loner with my bike or just get back out there :S
ps: i live in northampton hence the drink and drug culture

i would bring it the the lbs and get them to check to see if its bent ( the frame i mean) they have a funny tool for checking thease things.

i heard a rumour that they were going to stop selling bikes and become a strip clubs 🙂

This looks cheaper :p http://www.klamp-it.co.uk/Pages/garage.htm

looks very effective

i heard a rumour that they are in a bit of financial bother at the moment???

we have had problems with people jumping are fence to get into the garden where the garage is, are new deterent is carpet gripper rod nailed onto the top of the fence. any hands going to grab a firm hand position onto that gate to jump the fence will have some intresting hand injuries. hehehe

nothing wrong with flats in my opinion

mine cam true when my mrs finished are relationship yesterday, feeling slightly lost

all you need is torq, the powders are brilliant the bars are tasty and the gels make you ride for years… yes i suppose i am a bit of a fan 😛

i always uses a trangia but instead of the meth burner i use a gos burn in its place much quicker, just as light and more reliable. check the trangia website for details

i think thebikechain may have got onto something good here, you say your a new shop right? so how about setting up a relationship with singletrack, like all subscribed members get 10% off and free p&p. you can then montor the website and when some one has a need or a problem you can offer you assistance and help. we are nice people deep down 🙂

northampton ?

some people just get a kick out of spoiling good honest fun, good whilst it lasted 🙂

im camping at grizdale monday night, yum yum

im only 17 and have 5 bikes i quite often get accused of being rich and so on, although my argument is that every bike i have iv earned through working at the LBS for the past 2 years, we might spend £1000 on a bike but would you spend £1000 on a tv?? i defently wouldnt but i know many people who would.

i rode it a few weeks ago and it was brilliant, lovely clear sunny day although a little nippy on top. great ride and not all that demanding.

the race was extreamly difficuilt due to weather conditions ( and lack of clothing for me) but the trail was great, some really nice bombholes and we all said how great it would be in the dry, deffently worth a visit

Thetford winter series for me on sunday 🙂

leave it, hold on tight and hope for the best 🙂

GT85 has always done me fine

surely some one has got a smart 09 modal they can show off ?

not a bad first attempt, carfull not to injure your neck whilst looking at the secound picture hah