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Here is a little bit of what I've been doing over Christmas when I visited my parents in the north of Germany.
During a visit back in August, I rediscovered some really nice forest bits around the area where my parents live. I played in these woods as a kid but kind of forgot about how nice they are. When I was still living with my parents I only cycled through them as a convenient shortcut.
When I moved to London in 2015 I left an old MTB In the corner of my dads shed. It was the first bike I ever bought new and with my own saved up money when I was 13. Looking at the specs now it wasn't amazing but back then it was pretty cool.
It went through some iterations in its time. Once even as a drop bar semi-slick tyred gravel bike proto. The last time I changed it to what it was like when I picked it up again in December it had become a recovery commuter. Similar to my more recent Wrist recovery MTB I set it up to ride while I was recovering from shoulder surgery. Upright, easy rolling tyres, decent V brakes, front suspension.
The dad of a friend knocked it over while backing up with his car. Put a dent in it and bend the derailleur hanger. I was a student and living in Bremen Germany which is very flat so I just fixed it by setting it up as a single speed.
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