A few of us were hanging out at Exist yesterday when we heard a loud "PFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!", I joked that it was Ally's (thats Ally like Ollie not like alley, and from Allchurch) bike locked up across the road thinking that it was actually a bus engine. We all glanced across to see his front wheel as flat as a pancake, his inner tube had just exploded all by itself, it was the most excitement that we experienced all day.
One half of Swansea's finest cock rock DJ duo has just finished building his first fixie. Scott is a long time BMXer so I'm sure he's gonna be busting out all sorts of wild stunts in no time but for now we are trying to kill him with some fast rides around town :-p The lucky bugger struck it rich at the casino and got himself a sweet Volume Cutter 3 frame and a bunch of other bling. Scott is a tattoist, check him out and join his group on Facebook.
I'll apologise in advance to Sion for stealing this picture and embarrassing him here but sometimes it just has to be done!
He'd been having some trouble with the arm coming loose so he was probably a bit pissed off and flustered when he re-attached it, he's not usually so silly...
"...thats what happens when you re-attach bits of bike in morrisons car park without paying attention. tightened it right down like a bitch and then couldnt get it back off."
So Thursday night I was riding home when, at the bottom of a big long hill, I passed a bus at a stop so I decided to race it home. I made it about 3/4 of the way up before it overtook me and about a minute from home it got caught at a red light, I checked left, I checked right, there was nothing coming, I could run the light and beat the machine...
...I went through the crossroad with a bit of caution then got my sprint on, about 25 meters later I spotted a car parked on my left indicate, I was close enough and going plenty fast enough to just glide past him before he pulled out then he pulled off as fast as lightening into a u-turn, I made every effort to swerve around him, I even almost managed it, but he hit me and threw me through the air like a rag doll. Thanks to the brand new "Google Street Gif" technology the whole thing was caught on 'video'...
Ev's new Bob Jackson frame arrived today, it's a beauty! Here is the proud father looking just a little bit excited, haha :-p
I popped into County Cycles in Cross Hands the other week, it's a nice little shop and the staff were friendly too, which is nice (rare). Downstairs is filled with accessories and general bikes, like a little mini Halfords ;-) but upstairs is filled with some serious kit, they keep loads of top of the range road bikes in stock as well as a truly impressive selection of jerseys! They don't keep any fixed gear specific stuff in stock but said they can order stuff in which is fair enough as Cross Hands is hardly the epicentre of all things 'new and exciting'. Check out their website: http://county-cycles.com
