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Liam drove me to Devon yesterday to pick up my car. It was a good trip and the car is fine.

Wanted: Someone to go to the trails with! (must be interested in riding lots and digging lots).

Things have been very quiet at the trails recently. Its been mostly just me and Nigel down there, digging away. We haven’t seen Tom for a while, Rob is on holiday, and when he’s not he does 12 hour days at work so he often can’t get down. Pete is bored of trails so we don’t see him much, and now Nigel has hurt himself and can’t walk, so I am all by myself at the trails again, just like last year.

I am at the trails most days and it would be good to have some company, especially if you are as obsessed by riding as I seem to be at the moment.

The older I get the more obsessed with riding I seem to be. I can’t get enough of it! I guess you know you are addicted to riding when you do it by yourself.

That sounds a bit stupid. I don’t like it when people try and pressurise people into riding. You’re meant to do it for fun, not for any other reason. I don’t ever want whether someone rides or not to effect whether I am freinds with them. The only reason that I ride is that its one of the most fun things I know about. If you don’t think it is fun you shouldn’t pretend you do, just do something else that is more fun. It’s not a competiton.

If you are interested in graffiti you might like this.

Can you play bohemian rapsody on your hands?

Tonight we went for a ride in a new place and I took some pictures. This is the first time for about a year that pictures have been up the same day that I took them. I must be keen.

FREE CAR! – I bought a new car so I need to get rid of my old one. It’s got about a month of tax and MOT on it, but I am not sure it will pass the next one, so if anyone wants to have it then they can have a month of free driving. I have to drive to devon to get the new one, so it doesn’t matter if you don’t live near here!

Also, since I am driving to Devon I might as well visit some places on the way. Trip on Monday anyone?

Also The Knife is a really good page. Its interesting to see people doing something similar to building trails. Some quotes I liked:

“Use your tail as shovel, dig up the spots. They are there, you just have to look. Working eyes and poetic licence is all it takes.”

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.” – Jacques Yves Cousteau.

The other day I had about ten dead sheep in my office.Close up!

Digging in the rain is fun. The rain keeps you cool while you are sweating. Summer is a good time for digging as you can get a lot done.

I put up some trails sequences. Sort of interesting.

Still raining still dreaming…

When I am old I will make stuff like this. Its really interesting how they suffer from a lot of the same problems as people who build jumps – people skidding or riding round stuff. I particularly like “The best builders must have played with a lot of LEGO when they were kids”.

You’ve probably heard about this elsewhere, but if not, Stephen Murray had a bad crash last week and was paralysed. Details. More Details
And here is a video of him riding a few days before.

The weather for most of June and May has been bad but I am not complaining. I think having a cooler summer is definately better than last year when it was too hot to do anything. Its a nice temperature at the moment. The rain is not all bad either as it means the trails aren’t too dry and dusty. A nice sprinkling everyday would be ideal.

In other news TheShovelLoad is back.

Some pictures from the other night.

Mark send me these pictures of a temple in Cambodia: 1 | 2

I put the Public Gallery up again as I like to see what people are up to. Or if you can’t be bothered to sign up for that you can use this little upload script. Put your name in the file name so I know who uploaded what!

I have just been playing Virtual Drug Dealer. It is really fun. The most I have made is $390 million.

Summer is so good. The last few days have just been amazing. Even though about half of the jumps are still wet, its still so much fun. This jump is a lot of fun, and quite a few of the new lips are working good.

Rob is always good for providing Food, especially Muffins, and also good for catching kids riding the trails when its too wet.

Nigel has very kindly fixed my bike. It’s still a heap of junk but at least now it doesn’t make horrible snapping noises when I pedal. New back wheel anyone? It’s been good to have someone at the trails to ride with this year, after a lonely 2006, and you can always rely on Nigel being at the woods.

Finally, I do like a good pie.