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@bothwell
+1, good work, fox. Are you back in action properly now?
I hate riding a bike these days as I seem to be filled with endless blind rage about everything and it's very hard to shake it off when someone (always a driver of a motor vehicle) does something silly. Thus BareNecessities persuaded me to take my as-yet-unridden 29er to epping forest to ride on trails without cars and buses intent on killing me every few minutes. I've never been off-roading before so I was not very epic at all, but I did enjoy myself - the level of concentration needed is something i'm not used to. I fell in two (2) ditches, almost lost a shoe, and crashed into a hill (Tbf the hill was almost at a right angle to the ground). I'd been putting off riding the 29er offload as I was worried my general sense of pervasive Meh would kick in there too and I'd end up hating it before giving it a chance so i'm glad blowfish and BN were there to make it feel a bit easier and normal. And I enjoyed myself! On a bike! Hurrah! 10/10!