Sunday, 4 February 2007

Weekend of leadership and fun!

Hey, Im now back from a pretty exhaustive two days off training under the SMBLA scheme. Learnt some games which will keep us amused on the otherwise boring parts of trail and learnt some interesting skills. Limbo anybody? Have also met Emily Horridge and her dh mate John, was cool to ride with people who race. Was also good to see how my skills compare to theirs. I can trackstand like a demon, useful for the games. Need to practice that limbo though.

My bike is hangin (scuse the phrase), Swingarm is possibly loose at bearings, forks are chuffed, gears are terrrible, rear brake is lever that likes to touch the bars and its just ready for a 12month overhaul. would look at the gears myself (now iv got better adjusting skills) but seeing as though its all under warranty Im going to take it to kevin clewless, have a natter, pick it up, see what hes done wrong and take it to rourkes to get it done properly.

5 comments:

21Curtis said...

Glad you enjoyed your weekend and looking forward to hearing about it properly. I was wondering about booking friday off work and doing Landegla? I suppose you may have bike related problems though. Do you have any idea of timing for getting you hanging orange sorted out?!?!?!

jimd said...

My head is still blown. There was alot of info to take on board. Enjoyed it though. Will be good to do a ride to clear my head and concentrate on the trail.

Im going goldtec after lunch so I will know better about timing later on today.

Got a few options though if cant get my bike back 4 tihs w/e. I could put 1 of my old gazzas on le toy or get a moto digger. Or I cud use dads trek. would struggle on the jumps though with that.

jimd said...

My bike should be ready for thursday/fri morn. Going to ring Kev thurs afternoon. Itll be good timing if its ready for degla. Depends mainly on turnaround from mojo which is usually prompt anyway

21Curtis said...

Cool. That would be really good. Otherwise I guess you could always have another bike as back-up (dads or le toy? (Maybe ask Goldtec for a demo on something too as an option?)
Just spoken to Neil and he is looking forward to Friday.

jimd said...

I didnt know he was coming. thas cool. more the better. if poss do you want to make a day of it?