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www.mountainboarding.info
The mountainboarding wiki site was a bit of a failure. Open access and community editing is a good idea but in practice it attracts a lot of spam and ‘grudgediting’. So I started another website with the same aim; to provide a community-generated, comprehensive, accumulated resource of all the mountainboarding information we can find. And helpfully it’s at www.mountainboarding.info. It’s still very much in the early stages of being set-up and needs lots of work in collating and creating content, and on the design side of things, so if you have some spare time in front of a computer and want to help, let me know. And especially if you’re not in the UK as we need the site to be global, so you can add content from your country/region/club/etc.
Lights out in Ledbury
Walked into a dark and misty Conigree Woods and felt my way up the nearest track-looking thing. Dropped into the gulley to warm up with my headtorch to light my way. Have to say thanks to the bikers for their strategically placed safety can (you know when you’ve been impaled), and for clearing loads of new tracks which I shall have to check out one day soon.
Then I wandered over to Threading The Needle, which unfortunately has a tree down about three quarters up, but with the moon shining through the trees I strapped in and rode it without lights. It’s easier than you might think, riding in near total darkness, you’ve just got to shut your silly brain off and let your body do it’s thing.
Final run was a nice chilled down after The Needle and even with a light I managed to fall over, but you can’t win ’em all.
And I almost got lucky. I think something in the woods thought my clicking ratchets was a mating call and kept answering with it’s own clicking.
It’s a downhill kinda day
Great day riding three new tracks in Wales. Beautiful weather, beautiful place. Forgot my GPS but I had Brennig to read the map and chase me down the tracks. I’m not really into going fast. Used to be, but not anymore, I’ve felt the consequences too many times. But with Brennig close behind me I didn’t have much choice. That lad is going to be an awesome downhiller one day soon.