Zangolin

Symptoms:
1. Desire to wear a full face + goggles – even when riding round the back garden or to the corner shop!
2. Purchasing pads for all parts of the human anatomy (external).
3. Getting exited when I see duel crown forks esp. Fox 40s – have you seen the size of their stanchions!
4. No desire to ride up hill – just push.
5. Smoke roll ups (well not really – sound ‘downhillish’ though).
6. Knowing that a ‘dead sailor’ is not something you find on the beach.
7. Knowing that Peaty is a person + not your soil type.
8. Making your bike as heavy as possible.

9. Cutting your £60 Thomson post in half.
10. Having bars so wide that cars have to slow down to pass + walkers have to duck.

Mud – ok I know it’s not a bicycle  but it is me in mud a long time ago in my fell running days.

After a what seems weeks of washing mud of my bike after every ride + a particularly muddy episode on last nights ride enough is enough. Decided to go + ride one of those glorified giant mountain sized BMX tracks at Cwmcarn – so no Haugh Mud today. Got there about 4.30. Did the red xc route. First time there. Well impressed, blue sky, only a handful of riders about. Lots of pain before the pleasure, switch backs loads of climbing. Some nice techie + rocky climbs. Fantastic view across Severn Estuary. Big fast swooping descents. First class. Not really a BMX track – very natural track, loads of rocks. Best bit was no mud! not a spec on me – in fact the trail was dusty! I’ll be back. The 456 held up well + didn’t fall apart.

Welcome to what I hope will be lots of drivel.
One dictionary lists drivel as follows:

driv·el

v. driv·eled or driv·elled, driv·el·ing or driv·el·ling, driv·els

v.intr.

1. To slobber; drool.

2. To flow like spittle or saliva.

3. To talk stupidly or childishly.

v.tr.

1. To allow to flow from the mouth.

2. To say (something) stupidly.

n.

1. Saliva flowing from the mouth.

2. Stupid or senseless talk.

Although I have been known to slobber or drool – I think I will go with the “Stupid or senseless talk”
So expect lots of it………… mostly about cycling.
I’ll make no apologies for spelling mistakes or typos. I am far to old to worry about things like that (+ lazy).

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