Lordswoodadoodah

Testing the marin with a nice dry dusty spin around lordswood. Didnt get completely lost (for once) and had a nice fast short blast. The bike is ace, especially a large application of GT85 to stop the pivots creaking - rear disc pads still rattle like a bastard though. Just flies round everything and if you do get it a bit wrong, the rear end just sucks it up and saves your arse.

Got up to 28mph in the woods themselves which is quite cool :-) On the way back got into a nice bit of rhythm: Pedal, pedal, whoosh round the corner, shimmy the bars through a gap, pedal pedal, shimmy, whoosh whhosh, duck under tree branch, shimmy through trees, pedal pedal, whoosh round a corner BANG!

Once my head had recentred itself i realised i'd forgotten to duck :-) So glad i had my lid on. Took my (brand new) Zen off to see the damage expecting it to be knackered - not even a scratch - my head echoed for a few secs though :-)

Downsides were seeing how many utter tosspots let their dogs shit in the woods, clean it up but think its ok to leave the bags lying round, oh and the usual piece of flytipping.

I dont care though its a sunny evening :-)

to the pub!