Last week the plan was simple, do a 30 miler on Thursday then a short ride on Saturday, but as always seems to be the way with my rides lately the weather was to be incredibly bleak, I decided to skip Thursday and ride the 30 miler Saturday instead, With my schedule set in stone I went about completly ignoring it, getting up early Saturday and heading to Danbury Common for some mid air madness instead. Tom Jones (I shit you not) turns out to be reliable for the yoof of today, turning up as planned about 7:30, (Leighton take note, it is possible to leave early for a ride!) I had already loaded the car up, TJ had left his bike at mine the previous day as his rear shock needed replacing. To be fair so did all the bearings and one of the bearing axles but TJ was happy to bodge it back together for the ride out. Good man!. We arrived in great time with no crappy traffic on the usually rubbish A12, got geared up and took the short ride to the trail head. Danbury is funny, the first few runs always feel rubbish, dragging the brakes, getting lines all wrong, no flow and in TJ's case stacking it on the first run but you soon warm to it, then without any realization it all clicks together, your flying through berms launching over 10ft tabletops and popping manuals off everything possible as smooth and as fast as Sonic the Hedgehog on ice, wearing a tux and smoking a cigar, at least that's what it feels like. After reaching normal operating temperatures (it was cold at 9 in the AM) TJ decided to pull his, what I can only call usual trick of throwing up all over the side of the trail, but the guys got guts (snigga) he assured me he felt much better, we continued to hit lines for another hour and a half after that and he was fine, flying in fact! After a while though it became apparent that the bodged on bearings were less than fine, the arse of his bike was wobbling everywhere, up and down side to side so we decided to call it a day. Back at the car sausage rolls were consumed with gusto and washed down with protein bars and water, surprisingly TJ didn't throw this concoction up and we headed home with the whole afternoon still ahead of us. Some times you just can't beat an early morning assault.
Check out th vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZK_6EXtxA0
