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**** you bad back and spinal operations, I'm back [s]stronger, leaner, fitter[/s] fatter, slower, weaker than before and I'm going to wheeze at those trails, just you wait and see.
Here's hoping the back holds out, can do without another 2 years off!
Best of luck, and have fun 😀
Back after an easy 10miles with 1500ft of climbing. I'm shit, slow and scared, but I can't stop grinning! Quit pleased I moved to a place with shed loads of single track on the doorstep now!
That's pretty good going after two years out.
You've earned a beer, I'm sure!
Well done that man! Have a celebratory beer.
Cool. Good luck.
Are we back yet? I am on the edge of my seat!
Congratulations and welcome back! Glad you had a great ride.
Sorry to hear about your tiny bits.
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Are we back yet? I am on the edge of my seat!
Already re-posted - yep, 10 miles of nice quarries, woodland singletrack and a bit of boggy shite in the middle. I'm officially a pansy rider now, but it'll come back once the confidence in my bionic back starts to build.
Sorry to hear about your tiny bits.
Thanks, it's not too bad and the wife's finally stopped laughing!
Welcome back
Don't forget to update your wardrobe to a contemporary enduro colorway. And you'll be needing some of these new tapered through axle dropper 675B+ gravel wheels.
Nice one. Enjoy 🙂
Don't forget to update your wardrobe to a contemporary enduro colorway. And you'll be needing some of these new tapered through axle dropper 675B+ gravel wheels.
Ha, I could do with some clothes that still fit to be honest - they are all a little snug around the waist! Think I'll stick to my 'murdered out' black and more black as I feel a little less like an utter tit in them!
I will admit to looking at a new bike last night, my 26", non tapered headset, 2x10 (upgraded in 2013 from 3x9 and ridden for the for time last night!) with qr front and back was certainly slowing me down, the trails felt dead...
Brilliant.
Confidence will come back, as will fitness. The great feeling of being on a bike never goes away.
Don't worry the flex in the bike that the tapered steerer, and bolt thurs takeaway the bigger wheels add straight back in, by having 11/8th and oq your counter balancing it by having normal wheels.
Thus meaning the trails willfeel the same.
have fun and take your time the bionic nus will hold upto alot,(bionic shoulder convert)
😀I will admit to looking at a new bike last night, my 26", non tapered headset, 2x10 (upgraded in 2013 from 3x9 and ridden for the for time last night!) with qr front and back was certainly slowing me down, the trails felt dead...
Good on you for getting back out.
I had a break for a couple of years and went into an LBS as I quite fancied a new frame as an incentive to get back into to it. Basically I was told that 'ALL' my components would be obsolete. I never listened and bought a nice frame off of here. However, once I went out on the trails I dicovered I had turned into a slow(er) , heavier, mincer. How I wish I had listened to the LBS as he told me it would bring the trails to life and improve my strava or something times. I bet he's having the last laugh. 8)