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Placed an order in for some new forks at my local bike shop today “All Terrain Cycles”. Cost me a little more then I was hoping for but am sure it will be well worth it, shaving off a good 680Grams off my bike which is more then I expected.
I should weigh my bike to see the total weight of it, would be interesting to find out.
I am also hoping to find a good use for the pushlock as I don’t lock the fork as much as I should do, as well as that am hoping Iv made the right choice to go with air over coil. As soon as there arrive  I will of course let you guys/girls know of my first impressions of the fork along with some photos.
And when the forks are fitted I will also let you know how I thought there preformed on the trials.

Here is a link for more information about the forks if your interested.
http://www.allterraincycles.co.uk/product/106387.html

As I said said before in a previous post I went and bought my self some SPD’s for the first time.

Today I put them to the real test and did a local route with Andy P,Matthew and Julie. Even tho I fell a stunning 4 times which i might add is unusual for. I cant really blame the new pedals, but its more likely to be just me. Most of the time it was my back wheel spinning out in the mud.

My real concern was not been able to clip out when needed, but out of some miracle I managed every time, and to my surprise some times I did not have to think about it

So far am enjoying been clipped in and it sure is helping with the long hills.

Only time will tell

I have been debating for a while now to either go clipless or not. Well on Thursday Matthew convinced me that was the way to go. So I went out and ordered some cheeps clipless pedals(thank you Matthew for picking them up). I have never doubted that there where better then platforms and gave you more power while cycling but I was not confident about the idea of been attached to the bike and not been able to put my foot down when needed. So far its been going okay and I have had a few close calls and just managed to clip out. I am a little nervous about the ride on Sunday been the first off road route I will of done with clipless. Tomorrow am going to be cycling into work. so I hope this will help me get used to them. I am expecting a few painful falls. Lets see what happens.

Well we did it again but making a few small changes to the route.

This time we started in howarth heading towards satires lane and along the water which brought up at the back of the windmills near Ogden we contained on towards the old roman road down into Ogden. From here we could follow the same route as we did the week before which took us in a circle so we could head back the way we came along the waterway and down satires lane.

I got to say we could not of picked a worst day for the weather as it was it throwing it down with rain. Even tho we were wet to the skin and frozen we really did enjoy are selves.

Third group ride of the year and were starting to get back into the swing of things.
The route was a just under 15 miles from our start location in Thornton heading towards Ogden Reservoir on the road.
At Ogden we started off with a long gentle slope which can get tricky in places as its gets rocky and muddy in placed depending on the time of the year you go. After that there is small downhill where you can either choose to go down a rocky track with quite a few ruts in there or down the muddy track on your right.
from there we went along a waterway until we met with the road going up by the windmills, we continued down here till we game across a guest house, going left at the guest house will take you down an roman road which is very rocky so be careful not to let your inner clip you rim. This will then lead back to Ogden Reservoir where you can go back on your self back to where you started.
I must say I did enjoy this route and will be going it again.

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People Who Attended

Antony
Matthew
Julie