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Nick Cod
Joined: 12 Aug 2009
Posts: 2
Location: Winchester Hampshire
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 Posted Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:27 pm |
Dear MBUK
I competed in the Gamin event August 16th held at sunny QE Country Park in Hampshire for the chance to ride with Steve Peat. After a first failed attempt at the course with a faulty Garmin unit I was kindly allowed to have another bash.
On completing the course I was told that I had a good time and was in with a chance of winning despite missing two of the eight markers we had to get to. On tenterhooks I waited for the results as not knowing is worse than knowing you haven't really done that well after all as someone else has smashed your time.
Anyway I finally saw the results posted to discover I had achieved second place. Brilliant I thought and was elated to have done so well. When I called and told my girlfriend the news she said well done, what have you won? Then I drew a blank, I thought I haven't won anything!
Considering the winner of the event scooped a new bike, Garmin unit of their choice and a weekend with Steve Peat I was left feeling like a snake bitten tyre. I have tried to contact Bike Radar in regards to this but haven't had any response.
I really enjoyed the event and everyone involved was exceptionally helpful but looking back I am surprised there was no prizes for runners up.
James Lakeman - Hampshire
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Will Bowden
Joined: 17 Nov 2008
Posts: 12
Location: Exmoor
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Posted Tue Sep 1, 2009 3:05 pm |
Hi MBUK folks.
We have just taken over managing the Exmoor Centre bunkhouse far out on darkest Exmoor. The Bunkhouse is owned by a group of trustees and is provided for the benefit of groups and families who want to enjoy Exmoor cheaply.
Anyone can book the centre at any time of the year and its particularly suited to MTBers.
If you could give us a plug in the mag that would be great, the centre website is www.ExmoorCentre.co.uk and there are more details about the centre and contact information on there.
If you fancy coming down and doing a feature on the area I am sure we can muster a few folk to show you around...
Cheers
Will Bowden
www.MuddyRedLandRover.co.uk
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jamienutter1
Joined: 04 Sep 2009
Posts: 1
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Posted Fri Sep 4, 2009 10:20 pm |
hi MBUKCan you tell me where abouts in scotland is the fort william dh tracka nd what time throught the years is it open for the public use and some local trails that arnt as hard prefably fast and flowing
cheers jamie
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Saddle Simon
Joined: 05 Sep 2009
Posts: 2
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Posted Sat Sep 5, 2009 1:17 pm |
I have just come home through the door after a week away in The New Forest and felt this letter was well over due. As a massive fan I just want to say keep up the good work at MBUK, the publication is awesome.
I think my love for two wheels was passed on by my late father. He was a keen motorcyclist and I have many fond childhood memories that began the moment my feet could reach the pegs. I went on outings to various Superbike rounds and motorcycle exhibitions with him and once I was lucky enough to be mesmerised by Dougie Lampkin.
Looking back cycling wasn’t the smartest choice of sports to pursue. I was born with a very rare condition called Osteogenesis imperfecta, commonly referred to as brittle bones disease. I spent much of my youth in plaster recovering from impact fractures from just about every contact sport imaginable, I was never the scrabble type.
Like many I grew up riding the local woodlands until one day against my mother’s better judgement my father decided to get my on the road with a motorcycle. Freedom at a young age was a gift and on leaving school I commuted to work and college where I studied as an apprentice electrician. The excitement was short lived; on a wet night one November I lost the front end on a personhole cover (formally referred to as a manhole) and hit a central reservation. Fighting for my life I was taken by helicopter to the John Radcliff hospital where surgeons repaired a shattered pelvis, pubic and ankle not to mention numerous vertebrae. My parents were told that my chances of survival looked slim and the prospect of walking ridiculous. So three months later I was climbing the wards test staircase proving my fitness in a bid to escape hospital food. On leaving hospital I witnessed my father pass away with a heart attack and I fell into depression.
It was then that I stumbled across an instructional video called “Tricks and Stunts” starring Hans Rey, Martin Hawyes and Martyn Ashton. I had always felt most alive with wheels beneath me and having side stepped a wheelchair, having a short memory for pain I wanted back on. It inspired me and I was soon on a bike but this time a stationery type to rehabilitate myself.
Sometime later following your reviews I purchased a GT Avalanche. I enjoyed my freedom again riding to my local gym putting routine back into my life. I enrolled at college and got back into some part time work to support my studies. I went on to study a science degree at university graduating with honors this year and now currently working in a respectable position as a projectionist for a mainstream cinema chain.
I wanted to get away for a while following graduation and at short notice went to The New Forest for some adventure and relaxation. The girlfriend Lisa and I hired some bikes for the excellent trails and on a day trip to Bournemouth I happened to meet one of the men that inspired me to continue pedalling.
Martyn Ashton was demoing his new bike and promoting his sponsors showing off his repertoire of skills. I want to tip my hat to the team who after a long summer still performed as fresh as ever. Nervous to meet my hero I spat out a few words getting a picture and autograph.
This is a thank you to the man that I consider a great ambassador for our sport and I hope by writing this I too can inspire if just one person to get back in the saddle.
You see, I have come to relies that life isn’t too dissimilar to cycling. We are all in one way or another trying to get somewhere and sometimes we take wrong turns, sometimes we get a puncture and sometimes we fall off. Through it all, it is the getting back on that counts.
Why persist in doing something that is clearly going to cause serious injury, well I can’t answer that but I have recently purchased an Orange Zero and plan to spend much time learning how to reach my dream of pedal hopping. Happy Days. Simon Berkshire
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MiloXC3
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
Posts: 10
Location: Bishopstoke, Southampton
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Posted Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:27 pm |
Hello MBUK, I'm not sure where to post letters, so I thought I'd post it here, here's my message:
I'm 15 years old and I'm looking for an entry-level downhill bike for about £1500 or less, I've already been suggested the Kona Stinky 2009 and the Specialized Big Hit III 2009, what bike would you suggest? Thanks.
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davemi
Joined: 16 Sep 2009
Posts: 1
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Posted Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:59 am |
Just another post to register my anger at MBUK posting directions to Barend and Sheet trails. I rang and spoke to the Editor, Danny and he didn't see any problem. In short the listing of direction to these trails (and the tone of the article) is probably the most efficient way of destroying these valuable and hard earned resources. It seems strange that the majority of cycling media from Dirt through Ride to Fastlane can handle articles involving trails without causing damage but MBUK can't. Shame on you. Beyond bad karma, you've managed to really annoy a large number of people and endanger some of the UK's best trails.
| Rosee wrote: | Need to get something off your chest?
Want to tell us how brilliant/ rubbish we are? Got a secret route we need to know about? Met someone good on your travels?
Write to us here and we'll stick it on the letters page in the mag.
Cheers
Rosee
MBUK
www.bikeradar.com/blogs/mbuk |
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paul27chocolate
Joined: 30 Dec 2007
Posts: 1
Location: Colliers Wood London UK
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Posted Wed Sep 30, 2009 2:42 pm |
Dear MBUK Team,
Every Month I excitedly await my shiny new copy of MBUK in the post, it is a truly great bike magazine, and I am a bike nut! When I am forced to use public transport (squished sardine), and not able to travel on my bikes, I relieve my pain buy reading MBUK (It is also my read of choice on a Sunday morning with my tea). You can imagine my dismay, when Mr Post Man didn’t deliver my mag on time (arahhh). The worst thing is that several of the bike reviews from this edition appeared on BikeRadar before I had received my magazine!
Now I have had a good moan I thought I could offer some safety advice to anyone with new forks:
I came a-cropper when I was trying out some new tricks in the park. My front wheel dipped and slid (there was too much sag in my forks) and I fell on the end of my handlebars breaking two ribs (see round handlebar mark when I work out how to attach a picture). My Magura Brake lever snapped off leaving a really long gash on my chest. I smashed my helmet as well.The chap at my local bike shop pointed out that the brake lever probably wouldn’t have snapped off if I had loosened the clamp a bit, allowing it to move and not break on my chest. Total cost of accident: £100  Lesson learnt!
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mike23864
Joined: 21 Sep 2009
Posts: 1
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Posted Fri Oct 2, 2009 12:54 pm |
As the cold weather's coming and we are all looking to save a bit of cash try this.
Have you ever come back from a ride to discover you've no chain lube left in the bottle?
Whilst you are cleaning the muck off your pride and joy, put your bottle of lube in a jug of hot water from the kettle. Oil thickens when it gets cold so you'll get at least 5 more lubes out of it.
Mike
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thisisezo
Joined: 06 Oct 2009
Posts: 3
Location: United Kingdom of DOOM
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Posted Tue Oct 6, 2009 10:58 am |
Hey peeps hope you are all good, you may or may not have seen our latest offereing, if you havn't go check it asap. Features Danny Pace Daryl Brown Adam Williams DPM Ryan Nangle some massive front flips and flip whips Filmed at The EZO demo at the Whiteair Festival last month.
http://video.mpora.com/watch/X10SMdAeW/
let us know what you think
Out for now
EZO
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Jamjam123
Joined: 03 Apr 2009
Posts: 16
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Posted Tue Oct 6, 2009 2:09 pm |
i recently had a bit of an accident with my bike witch left me standing there with my mech hanging off and a snapped mech hanger fast forward a few months and a lot of parts later
getting back on the bike and a couple of weeks later i'm much faster and more confident on the bike. so what I'm saying im saying is kick your feet up and relax and get back on the bike
with more confidence and be awsome
James
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Hercule Q
Joined: 02 Jun 2009
Posts: 1702
Location: On the floor by the bar
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Posted Sun Nov 8, 2009 3:59 am |
hey MBUK could you please tell me the best way to motivate my friends for rides on cold wet days because the way they moan about the bad weather you'd think they're roadies or something. I love going out on a horrible day and riding empty trails, testing my skills on the wet roots and slippery off camber corners but they dont understand why i like to go out and get muddy instead of sitting on the couch wishing for the sun to come out.
Hercule Q,
Forumland
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One of Gods own prototypes, to weird to live, to rare to die |
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