I'm back in the land of custard torrow night, just gotta survive a 12 hour shift and the 5 hour drive down(inc. the bloody M25).
Back for Alice's graduation, but planning to ride as much as possible around then.
Peace out
Sunday, 19 July 2009
Langster
Been getting back on the Langster this week.
Loved it. there aren't any big hills around Hatfield and WGC so a single speed makes a lot of sense and actually makes riding around here a little bit more challenging.
If you've got the money and time for another bike I reccommend the Specialized langster.
I have the Monoco version with the proper pimp chrome track bar. It looks theh muts, but in actual fact the bar's pretty uncomfortable. LOL
So I've had to bar tape the thing anyway.
Loved it. there aren't any big hills around Hatfield and WGC so a single speed makes a lot of sense and actually makes riding around here a little bit more challenging.
If you've got the money and time for another bike I reccommend the Specialized langster.
I have the Monoco version with the proper pimp chrome track bar. It looks theh muts, but in actual fact the bar's pretty uncomfortable. LOL
So I've had to bar tape the thing anyway.
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Plea to Hollywood
Hollywood
PLEASE STOP REMAKING OLD MOVIES AND MURDERING EXCELLENT FOREIGN FILMS
Get some motherfucking new ideas
PLEASE STOP REMAKING OLD MOVIES AND MURDERING EXCELLENT FOREIGN FILMS
Get some motherfucking new ideas
The Rock
Just watched The Rock and Die hard 4.0 this week,
The Rock wins hands down, although Die Hard 4.0 wasn't as bad as I remember.
Michael Bay can you please make things like The Rock again and not Transformers?
Although I can't see anyone else pulling Transformers off as well as The Bay
The Rock wins hands down, although Die Hard 4.0 wasn't as bad as I remember.
Michael Bay can you please make things like The Rock again and not Transformers?
Although I can't see anyone else pulling Transformers off as well as The Bay
Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen
It's fun, but ultimately not a great movie.
They've got way more robots in it but Megatron just seems like a whinny assistant and the new baddy sucks.
Optimus Prime still rocks but most of the others didn't get much development.
I will only say 1 thing about the 2 little robots and that is they make Ja Ja Binks seem like a good idea!
Megan Fox pleases as always though.
peace out
They've got way more robots in it but Megatron just seems like a whinny assistant and the new baddy sucks.
Optimus Prime still rocks but most of the others didn't get much development.
I will only say 1 thing about the 2 little robots and that is they make Ja Ja Binks seem like a good idea!
Megan Fox pleases as always though.
peace out
HP A GO GO
Cereal (or Maverick to the uninitiated), Andy and I are aiming to head up to Holme Pierpont weekend after next to see if the improvements have actually made it better than it was (the place sucked arse last year).
Top wave was an undynamic boring feature, no speed, or shoulders to pull moves on, just a boring line wae/hole that makes it to easy to loop, spin, cartwheel etc.
With features like these for our freestylers to train on it's a wonder the GB Team manage anything when they head abroad to compete.
The Plughole was practically gone and the Muncher sucked arse. They both used to be sweet features which allowed you to pull a variety of moves then beat you up and spit you out after. I'd describe them as tame and boring nowadays.
The only thing it was good for was squirt boating and I apparently it's not so good for that now.
Fingers crossed that these improvements have brought some excitment and liveliness back to HP.
Full review when we've been.
Peace out
Top wave was an undynamic boring feature, no speed, or shoulders to pull moves on, just a boring line wae/hole that makes it to easy to loop, spin, cartwheel etc.
With features like these for our freestylers to train on it's a wonder the GB Team manage anything when they head abroad to compete.
The Plughole was practically gone and the Muncher sucked arse. They both used to be sweet features which allowed you to pull a variety of moves then beat you up and spit you out after. I'd describe them as tame and boring nowadays.
The only thing it was good for was squirt boating and I apparently it's not so good for that now.
Fingers crossed that these improvements have brought some excitment and liveliness back to HP.
Full review when we've been.
Peace out
Triscombe
Last week after we left the O P Trails we headed to Pete Ford's local trails in Triscombe. It's probably been about 18 months since I was last there and the main trails I used to ride are long dead. Thank you FC.
While Pete and Skam were faffing around swapping shock springs (and Andy was having a snooze in the back of his van!) Ewart and I rolled off down the hill (in the oposite direction) and found a sweet flowing trail, we didn't pedal to much, just practiced pumping and flowing through the lines, it was great fun, but the spin back up is a bitch( especially on a big freeride bike!).
Once the others had sorted out their bikes (luckily Sam's spring was to light and Pete's to hard), we started to spin and grind our way over to the far side of the hill. The trails here were brutal compared to the smooth, groomed nature of the O P. Rocky, rooty, sketchy and tight, overall excellent fun. The Black Hole was a surprise in that it was almost pitch black in there (and rocky, rooty and tight!!) all you could hear on the way down were screams, laughter and swearing from all of us. Great fun.
The push/grind back to the top was made almost unbearable by the amount of flies ( BILLIONS of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Andy and I were considering a pint or two once we made it back to Exeter but he was to tired by then and went home for the meal of champions, 4 rashers of bacon and 2 fried eggs.
We've now set his bike up super sweet and he's flying high and fast.
Long live 'Le Cagane'
While Pete and Skam were faffing around swapping shock springs (and Andy was having a snooze in the back of his van!) Ewart and I rolled off down the hill (in the oposite direction) and found a sweet flowing trail, we didn't pedal to much, just practiced pumping and flowing through the lines, it was great fun, but the spin back up is a bitch( especially on a big freeride bike!).
Once the others had sorted out their bikes (luckily Sam's spring was to light and Pete's to hard), we started to spin and grind our way over to the far side of the hill. The trails here were brutal compared to the smooth, groomed nature of the O P. Rocky, rooty, sketchy and tight, overall excellent fun. The Black Hole was a surprise in that it was almost pitch black in there (and rocky, rooty and tight!!) all you could hear on the way down were screams, laughter and swearing from all of us. Great fun.
The push/grind back to the top was made almost unbearable by the amount of flies ( BILLIONS of them!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Andy and I were considering a pint or two once we made it back to Exeter but he was to tired by then and went home for the meal of champions, 4 rashers of bacon and 2 fried eggs.
We've now set his bike up super sweet and he's flying high and fast.
Long live 'Le Cagane'
Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Congrats to muppet
Muppet got married a while ago and I'd just like to send my congratulations to him and condolences to the lady who's now stuck with this
It's been a while since I've posted anything on here
this smarted a bit
Still living up in Hertfordshire, but spent the last 3 weeks down in Custard Country.
Alice and I finally had to move out of Exeter, time for the next step towards the future, Alice is heading to Bristol in just over a month.
I've decided to keep the faithful goose for now, was planning on trading it in for a shorter, lighter bike as it's flat as Holland up here.
Went for a 40 mile road ride with Andy a few weeks ago, loved it, especially burning of cars on the winding downs and I felt we earned them with the FUCK OFF big ups.
Cheers for that Fatman.
Hit up Holden with Andy, Ewart and Skam last week had a great evening super dry and dusty. Although it took me all evening to get back up to speed and smoke Andy (the rest of the evening I'd been struggling lol).
The next day we rocked up to the O P trails near Taunton. They are excellent, dry, dusty, fast, well thought out and built. Thanks to Pete Ford from Yak Kayaking for taking us.
We went back the following tuesday after some rain, Ewart, Jim and I. For most of the day it was so wet it felt like we were riding on ice!!!!! And we never realised how sticky and claggy the soil was, After the first 100 metres we all had 3 inch slicks on not 2.5 knobblies!!!
Went surfing weekend b4 last, I tried out the valley Rush+ loaned to me by the kind shop monkeys at AS Watersports. I loved it although the lack of foot rests made it a bit edgy LOL. Catching my edges certainly kept Big Owen amused at Polzeath!!!
That boat rocked though. Super fast and agile, though I'm not sure if it was performed much better than Dan's old 3rd hand Marauder, definately not £1000 better anyway. So much for 10 years of surf boat evolution.
It's official, I've replaced all my 3 - 4 year old kit and am ready to hit the rivers again this autumn/winter, now all i need is a boat.
Big props to AS Watersports for their support and equipment, you all do a fine job and I'm happy to call ou my local shop. Check them out at http://www.aswatersportsequipment.co.uk/
I'll be the dude rocking the Sassy green Strutter this winter(after 5 years I thought it was time to retire the famous yellow pot).
Sunday, 26 April 2009
A Sad Day
I'm afraid that due to moving away from Devon last July to start my new job and Alice moving to Bristol at the end of the summer I have to sell my baby, The wonderful Mongoose.
To be honest I haven't ridden her as much as I wanted to, and everytime I swing my leg oever her she puts a big smile on my face. But all I seem to do now is aggressive XC at the best and I can manage most of that on my hardtail.
So anyone looking for a great bike in excellent condition that hasn't been ridden as much as she should have been give me a call.
Peace out
Tom Kp
Custard Country
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
Shuttle biking
Uplifts in Devon?
You bet ya arse!
Andy and I headed up onto the moors in search of a few DH runs that are worth uplifting. And we found 2 good long ones and a short one steep enought o give the Alpes a run for their money.
The first top secret location was mega steep. Starts out as a rutted bridle path that drops off the face of the moor. Caning it over granite bedrock flat out was fun but unfortunately as full speed it inly lasted a few minutes.
Top secret track No2 was better, fast flowing switchbacks in a beautiful wooded area, equally fun in the dry or soaking wet. Perfect for drifting corners.(about 10 mins top to bottom)
No 3 is somewhere we'd ridden years ago in our old badly sprung hardtails(about 2001 i think) at that time Andy's top bargain Barracuda Zombie just didn't cut it and my glorious Diamondback (a brand that's started doing exciting things again recently)just didn't realise this trail to it's full potential.
But this year with the plucky Mongoose and his Commencal with the leaky shock we ripped this track to pieces. And if you take a tumble here there's a lovely soft landing supplied by all the surrounding gorse bushes. Which I discovered, gave me a flat. Took about 15 - 20 mins top to bottom.
So 2 good runs and a short blast with no uphill involved and we were both back in time for lunch. Can't say fairer than that. next time the camera's are going with us.
Stay tuned
You bet ya arse!
Andy and I headed up onto the moors in search of a few DH runs that are worth uplifting. And we found 2 good long ones and a short one steep enought o give the Alpes a run for their money.
The first top secret location was mega steep. Starts out as a rutted bridle path that drops off the face of the moor. Caning it over granite bedrock flat out was fun but unfortunately as full speed it inly lasted a few minutes.
Top secret track No2 was better, fast flowing switchbacks in a beautiful wooded area, equally fun in the dry or soaking wet. Perfect for drifting corners.(about 10 mins top to bottom)
No 3 is somewhere we'd ridden years ago in our old badly sprung hardtails(about 2001 i think) at that time Andy's top bargain Barracuda Zombie just didn't cut it and my glorious Diamondback (a brand that's started doing exciting things again recently)just didn't realise this trail to it's full potential.
But this year with the plucky Mongoose and his Commencal with the leaky shock we ripped this track to pieces. And if you take a tumble here there's a lovely soft landing supplied by all the surrounding gorse bushes. Which I discovered, gave me a flat. Took about 15 - 20 mins top to bottom.
So 2 good runs and a short blast with no uphill involved and we were both back in time for lunch. Can't say fairer than that. next time the camera's are going with us.
Stay tuned
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Favourite pictures from last year
Alice's first high shore(Sleepy Hollow Puddletown)
Ben at Oke
Alice's surprise birthday cake
Ben at Oke(this is my favourite picture of that day)
Exploring Exmoor
Last week Tom K, Ewart, Ryan and I headed up to Exmoor in search of a few DH runs that were worth shuttling.
I had my bro's Commencal complete with dodgy front brake, wheel nicked from my bike and dodgy shock. Tom K had his dependable Yeti, Ewart his Stinky and Ryan was christening a brand new Bullit.
To say the roads were a bit icy was an understatement, thank gods for 4x4!
I navigated with pin point accuracy to where I thought we were meeting Tom and Ryan. Unfortunatley Ewart had actually wanted to be on the road on the other side of the hill. I fully admit it was my fault.
We started up at Dunkery Beacon and proceeded to rag it down a small rocky track.
Ryan was on it, right up to a rather rocky open corner. A slight dab of the brakes, next thing ewart and I pass him eating snow.
Did I mention that most of the trail was covered in snow and what wasn't was slick icy rock!
He soon caught up again though.
After the initial all out open blast, we crossed the road and dived into a beautiful undulating track that criss crossed the river all the way to the car park. This section would have been better on an XC bike and during the summer it would heve been more fun to blast through the water crossings rather than over the bridges.
The next trail took us up a road so steep it would put many Alpine ascents to shame.
This track was an all out blast from to to bottom by the coast. Gotta love Ryan's manuals, reckon he spent at least half the day with only the rear wheel on the ground.
Home time was another adventure with closed roads, diversions and thoroughly wet passengers.
Oh and I absolutely loved he Commencal pedalled like a small bike, shot downhill like a big bike.
Later
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