I will kill yaaww monstah...

Where have i been? Ardnamurchan mostly, with several trips to edinburgh to see family and friends. I guess now the festive season is over, and its time to get a routine back. However, heres a summary:

Crimbo: top food, pub quiz game and merry families.
Hogmanay: Facadale, ardnamurchan for some remote scottish scenery and some drinking with friends. Good kite flying too...
Back in Weeg: having put 650b wheel together, there was a brief delay until it could be put to use.

Headed out to local trails and everything seems good. Better than with the 26", though traction not quite as good with the neo moto as with the maxxis DH tyre, i guess thats to be expected. Wheel built nice btw, the sun equalizer rim (27mm wide, 510g or so) seems nice. the weld was a bit uneven, otherwise probably my fastest wheel build ever.

Ride-wise, the bigger wheel steepens things up and overcomes what i have concluded is the effects of the width of the front endomorph coupled with the pneumatic trail (ie caused by the tyre being low pressure)

Ace fun. I also seem to have got better at riding fixed off road, the trick is a little rear hop to try and get the cranks in the right place. Concentrate, and you can make anything thats not huge...really...

What else? apart from sighing and shaking my head at the situation in gaza, i missed the tod cross, which i would have liked to have been at. Sounds like chipps did a grand job. Photos on flickr, linked through my contacts if you want to footer about.

Got some good scrambling in, and some pretty hairy little climbs in ardnamurchan. I had taken my rock shoes, and with the traction on the superb rock you can get pretty high and cornered before you realise. The ice could be skethcy too. Prolly just need to man up a little.

Anyone know any good mustahce wax?


Also, toddle over to sswc 2009 get yer crayons out too. Im number 33...