There is something not right about this

April 1, 2008 on 8:34 am | In Uncategorized |

We decided to take a couple of the new mountain bikes (Bike Hebrides) for a trial round the Castle Grounds in Stornoway and all I keep hearing from behind me was ‘There is something not right about this’

Tommy comes from a road racing background and he found he was having to unlearn all of the techniques of road racing. The consiquences were a couple of spectacular falls . I looked back at one bend and the bike was int he middle of the track and there were a pair of legs sticking out of the bushes.

The ground was very wet after all the rain over the last week so it wasn’t just Tommy who was riding without the bike. I ended up running through the undergrowth after pressing the ejector seat on the bike which had decided it wanted to take a close look at a grabby mud hole.

The two things Tommy learnt were; you need to hang yourself off the back of the bike on decents, the saddle needs to be low enough to get your bum over the back wheel and you can’t stand up in the peddles on slippery ground or the back wheel just spins, so on steep slippery accents you need to keep your bum on the seat or at the very least your wieght over the back wheel.

Hopefully the tumbles won’t stop him coming out for another blast.

Tim Pickering
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