For any Northern readers....

check http://www.rollapaluza.com for more details:

WTF? Cash prizes in Manchester? No fair!
I've got a mate's leaving do that night so I can't use this as an excuse to ride up there. :S

When the page first loaded, I thought that image was some kind of close-up on a grub or caterpillar's face or something. I've not even been smoking.

How can you be a climber extraordinaire and smoke?

Do you also eat lots and not put weight on?

I haven't smoked tobacco for about 7 years, and the other is about once a month these days... which is good, cos you actually get high. And my appetite seems to wane if I'm going through a sedentary patch.

Before I turned 30, I'd eat and smoke and drink and whatever else as much as I fancied, and still be able to 'put the hammer down' while I was out on the road. Took a lot longer to recover though :)

Yeah, everything in moderation ;)

I hope I can eat/smoke/drink whatever I want and still ride well when i'm 30.

But I NEED to get a proper bike. I swear my bike is actually falling apart bit by bit. Gears are really pissing me off. I suppose this is like punishment for riding recklessly into potholes.

It's like going back to VHS.

VHS - Velocio Huret Simplex