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What's
your next favourite pastime to biking?
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Hill walking.
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What music are you listening to at the moment?
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Most of the Anticon label's hip hop stuff, such as Sole and Alias. I'm also enjoying the congo's 'heart of the congos' as well as Nick Cave's 'no more shall we part'.
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First and last riders that really impressed
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Cocteau twins & Iron Maiden.
Last: Silver Mount Zion & Sole (both live)
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What do your parents think of what you do?
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I think they quite like some of the music. Supportive as always.
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Ever wanted to jack it all in and get a steady job?
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Nope.
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Words to live by?
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'An eye for an eye and the world would be blind' - Mahatma Gandhi.
'There are only two occasions when I drink. When I'm thirsty, and when I'm not thirsty' - George Bernard Shaw
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Check Dextro's sublime 'Do You Need Help' on Border Community records.
www.dextro.co.uk
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05 July 2008
Pace Bike Park opens at Dalby
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Dalby Forest now has its very own bike park. Visitors to the 8,600 acre North Yorkshire woodland will find a brand-new three-acre site packed with jumps, a 4X course and North Shore sections. It's called the Pace Bike Park at Dixon's Hollow, which will give you a clue as to its provenance - it's a joint venture between the Forestry Commission, Pace Cycles and local trailbuilding group SingletrAction.
It's all part of an ongoing £400,000 project to turn Dalby Forest into a leading UK mountain bike venue. The scheme also includes 55km of singletrack, with the first 10km section linking the Bike Park with the forest visitor centre. Conveniently enough, that stretch is also now open. Dixon's Hollow itself is a disused quarry, which has seen the addition of over 350 tonnes of stone to transform it into the Bike Park. The adjacent elevated North Shore trail section is 175m long.
Alan Elves, Forest District Manager, said:
"The bike park offers a unique experience. It's the kind of hi
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Where to begin? Perhaps an apology for not keeping up with this wiley old fox that is bike shed online. Its been many years since she has graced the world wide web, some of you may remember us, no doubt some wont. There can be no doubt that bike she is back to rightly reclaim her throne.
The born again 'tag' got me thinking, how many of us are born again bikers? I myself have come back after a 5 year absence and its like I never left. The difference being I now have a disposable income.
Disposable income and bikes seem to create problems, I used to be a kid with a never ending smile pootling about on my 'baby puke' coloured Saracen. Never needed to spend any money on it, always just about worked.
I now find myself with a garage full of bikes and much less time to ride them, can I really justify the need for several expensive bikes, intended for several different purposes with their only real tour being a quick ride in the local woods with just the one bike ever really seeing any time on the trails.
Please forgiveme if this sounds like a complaint, its really not, I love my bikes and I love my riding, its just funny to way up the pros and cons of money versus time. 10 Years ago i wished i could afford bikes like the ones I own. Nowadays I wish I could afford the time to ride a bike like I could then.
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