Muddymoles mountain biking in the Surrey Hills and Mole Valley

Stuff & nonsense

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Gaiters

According to the Oxford English Dictionary gaiters are: –

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Bone idle

This weekend I will mostly be not getting out of bed, cos I was a lazy git.

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Alone

In Lerwick Archie MacDuff stood looking out of his kitchen window. The horizon was empty, only the grey clouds moving past proved that he was not looking at a painting.

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A further manly tale

In Lerwick, Archie MacDuff stood looking out of his kitchen window. He watched the huge seas crash against the hard beach, while the fierce wind blew the few trees over at right angles. It looked a fine day.

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Cycle 2006 – London Excel

It might be out of the way, being quite a trek for the moles from the heart of Surrey to London’s Canary Wharf but last Friday we made a special effort to attend the first public day of Cycle 2006. The resulting 62 shot set of Cycle 2006 photos are up on Flickr, with the labelling process ongoing…

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It’s not mountain biking

Today I had to take a trip into town for a mid-morning London meeting. Staring idly out of the window as the train crossed the Thames I was suddenly struck by a rather interesting thought.

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Cycling ennui

After spending a lot of time building this blog in the early part of this year, I haven’t been out on my bike now for the best part of three months. Why the hiatus you might wonder?

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I’m not much of a runner

I’ve always preferred bikes really, although I did go through a brief spell of running a bit more years ago than I want to think about…

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A new Mole!

A warm welcome to Jem who has joined the local cycling crowd and splashed out on a Marin Wolf Ridge.

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The law according to Sod…

…and how good can come of it.

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Trigger’s broom

Sunday saw me finally clock up 3000 miles on my Rift Zone which I bought in January 2003. Inevitably it’s a significantly different bike to the shiny beast I bought from Cycleworks in Leatherhead.

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For the record

With a full year of riding stretching ahead of us, we thought it worth taking a few moments to log our respective bike mileages for posterity and a potentially sobering review in due course.