Roadtrip Rules...
We're heading to the newly renovated Coed-y-Brenin trail centre this weekend.
Now as much as I like weekends away biking with mates there are a few rules that if followed makes life so much pleasurable for everyone involved. The following have been gleaned by bitter experience.
1. Lycra is not to be worn as an outer layer before midday. If you have a hangover you really don't need to see that sort of thing. Any outer Lycra is frowned upon.
2. Chill out. If there is a big group, you'll be covering ground slower than normal. Just chill out.
3. Be self sufficient. By all means share tools with a mate but no one like a tube/pump/tool/snack scab. Having said that next time I'm taking a couple of 99p Decathlon tubes and charging people 10 quid for when they inevitably flat. That'll pay for some cake.
4. Don't be stinky. No one likes a stinker.
5. Take of your fullface helmet in the cafe/car. You look like a retard. No really you do. Yes you, you window licker.
6. Stop whinging. Or the abuse will worsen.
7. Breakfast foods must not include tuna. Or pasta. This wrong on so many levels. Just the thought makes me wretch.
8. No patching of tubes whilst on the trail. Bung in a new one, don't make your mates hang around for you. Unless you've run out of spare tubes, in that case see Point 3, much cheapness.
9. Don't bring a daft bike. 40lb freeride bike on an allday epic XC ride? Don't be daft. Singlespeeds are fine as long as you have the leg power/speed to get up most hills and keep up on the flat bits. I may be flouting this rule this weekend but I managed to get round the Skyline Trail at Afan Argoed on the one speed without too much hassles despite the daft grips.
10. Don't be a faffer*.
Now as much as I like weekends away biking with mates there are a few rules that if followed makes life so much pleasurable for everyone involved. The following have been gleaned by bitter experience.
1. Lycra is not to be worn as an outer layer before midday. If you have a hangover you really don't need to see that sort of thing. Any outer Lycra is frowned upon.
2. Chill out. If there is a big group, you'll be covering ground slower than normal. Just chill out.
3. Be self sufficient. By all means share tools with a mate but no one like a tube/pump/tool/snack scab. Having said that next time I'm taking a couple of 99p Decathlon tubes and charging people 10 quid for when they inevitably flat. That'll pay for some cake.
4. Don't be stinky. No one likes a stinker.
5. Take of your fullface helmet in the cafe/car. You look like a retard. No really you do. Yes you, you window licker.
6. Stop whinging. Or the abuse will worsen.
7. Breakfast foods must not include tuna. Or pasta. This wrong on so many levels. Just the thought makes me wretch.
8. No patching of tubes whilst on the trail. Bung in a new one, don't make your mates hang around for you. Unless you've run out of spare tubes, in that case see Point 3, much cheapness.
9. Don't bring a daft bike. 40lb freeride bike on an allday epic XC ride? Don't be daft. Singlespeeds are fine as long as you have the leg power/speed to get up most hills and keep up on the flat bits. I may be flouting this rule this weekend but I managed to get round the Skyline Trail at Afan Argoed on the one speed without too much hassles despite the daft grips.
10. Don't be a faffer*.
posted by Dan Lees at 9:09 AM
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