Me and John are going out for a few hours in the forrest around Aberfoyle tomorrow if anyone wants to join us. Meet at car park in Foyle at 11am.
It was muddy and very wet today, but felt good to be outdoors! Although for some reason I could hardly make my bike work! Too much festive goodness i think!
Drop me a text if you think you may wanna come, otherwise, it may not be exactly 11am!! 🙂
Sam
07792605021

I have been tidying up the garage and have an assemblage of various pieces of surplus kit, tyres etc, which I’d be happy to move on , but too bulky or low value to post. I was wondering whether there are any such ‘car boot sales’ about, or whether we should have one ?

Cheers

smallest turn out for Tuesday ride.

went along tonight ….Neily nae pals….ended up on my lonesome just battering along Alander walk way then back along  westy .rosie’s. back to car for 8.30.

hatdpack ok soft stuff still very very wet and muddy.

found a great wee site with lots of good stuff on it.i checked out the glennifer braes route today.

last Tuesday one of the topics was routes around paisley and muirshiel  and
loch thom/greenock area.

check out  www.mtbroutessws .com
click on index and voila a host of ace info worth checking out in 2012.

i’ll keep you posted .

I plan to go out riding around the Kilsyth area for 4-5 hrs on Thursday if anyone wants to come along. Kilsyth, Banton Loch,Croy, Antonine wall,Twechar, a mix of farm track and singletrack ,fairly easy going with a few hill climbs and descents. Just enough to try and work off the excesses of the last few days. Starting out from the Coachman Hotel on Kilsyth main st at 10am if you are interested.

I set this bike up for family rides but it really isn’t getting used enough to justify keeping it, plus I need space in the garage for a new road bike !

So it’s a 2010 Bad Boy Disc – 26 inch wheeled, rigid, size medium.

It’s similar to this :

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/cannondale/bad-boy-r-slx-2011-hybrid-bike-ec025252

It’s been ridden only around a dozen times, and this summer I upgraded a heap of stuff, as below :

Wheels – 2011 Shimano MT15
Chainset, BB and cassette – 2011 Deore
Brakes – 2011 SLX, with 160mm centrelock rotors
shifters and front mech – 2011 SLX
tyres – 2011 Schwalbe Landcruiser 1.90

since putting this stuff on it I’ve used it 4 times so it is in very close to new condition. Also comes with mudguards, and I’ll stick on the original flat pedals.

I reckon as a new build it would be between £1200 and £1300, so I’m looking for around £750 for it. If you are interested please mail me : iain.clow@gmail.com and I can get some pics to you, sort a test ride etc

Cheers

Iain

Merry Crimbo to you and yours from me and mine.

Calling all folks with the 30 quid deal extreme lights: I had my fairly new lights on charge in the office and they started putting out a lovely molten plastic smelling smoke. lucky I was sitting right bedside them at the time so I yanked the plug out the wall straight away! Hate to think what would’ve happened if I’d been out the office – or worse, charging them at home! They were being charged up from completely flat and I guess the charger just totally overheated, I think the battery is OK though. Needless to say they’ll be getting sent back.
I’ve had a couple of sets of the £50 jobs from deal extreme with no such problems, but if you own these cheaper ones beware of where and when you charge them!
Oh, and Merry Christmas everyone!!
Gavin 😀