Martin

Glad I swapped the @maxxis_tyres Forekaster for the ever faithful Minion DHR II yesterday. Mud, wet roots made for some spicy riding today 😝
Got a tad damp towards the end due to the rain 🌧️ that wasn’t forecasted 😤

#MTB #MountainBike #mtblife #bikesaretherapy #orangebikes #wiltshire

Andrew formerly known as Prince 👑

About time 🙄

I posted this on Threads last week “Just a reminder that if shots are being fired, jets launched, bombs dropped & people (mainly innocent ones being killed), then it’s not a f*cking ceasefire.” 😡

It’s been revamped for the 60th Anniversary of The Warminster Thing 👽🛸

#ufo #wiltshire #warminster #thewarminsterthing

Cracking day today at Hafod trails some great trails for a lot of fun 🤩 One small off as I came in a little 🔥 into a berm 😱
I will definitely be making another trip there 😝🤘🏻

#MTB #MountainBike

Link is screwed 😜

"Best pleased to inform Her Majesty that the Union Jack once again flies over Stanley. God save the Queen"

- Major General Jeremy Moore 14th June 1982

To Absent Friends 🥃 😞

I am pretty sure that GT Bikes went to the wall a few months back bikebiz.com/gt-bicycles-...

He deployed the National Guard...

...what a f*cking fanny 🤣🤣🤣

Who is he going to call when sh!t gets real 🤔

I see weak men…

Gee whiz WBD couldn’t get their commentary for downhill much worse, why the fuck are we paying for a commentary where they’re chatting to some Supercross gimp.

Get Neko back in the box he’s the only one qualified to talk about DH.

Tough day today due to the showers 🌧️ turning the trails in into greasy slides, add in polished rocks & wet tree roots made for some interesting riding on @channeleventsuk #MendipMurmuration Thanks to all the volunteers for an excellent event as always 🤘🏻

#MTB #MountainBike

From the ashes a Phoenix will rise 😜

Cheeky trails have always existed & will continue to exist.

All gave some, some gave all…

The Longest Day 😞

#DDay

When is XT out 🤔

P.S. I can wait as I’ve just renewed my complete drivetrain 😜

My 10 favourite things about new Shimano XTR Di2 And two things I'm not so keen on. Here's a first ride review thoughts of the whole new Shimano XTR gruppo.

My 10 favourite things about new Shimano XTR Di2

And two things I'm not so keen on. Here's a first ride review thoughts of the whole new Shimano XTR gruppo.

The lost Village of Imber The village of Imber was evacuated during World War 2 by the War Office, to be used by the Army for training. The residents have never been allowed to return. The village is open to the public when th...

Imber is literally just round the corner from me, visited it many times over the years since we moved to Warminster.
Some pic's I've taken before they clamped down on access
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Gonna say something obvious to most: real masculinity defends the defenseless, punches up not down, has compassion, and fights only on behalf of others to battle injustice or evil.

It doesn’t just lift weights and tweet in all caps and listen to Rogan and grow a beard to feel accepted by other men

As if Reform weren't radical enough 🙄
The last place we need those 🤡's is in the Police, however I suspect there maybe some there already 🤔

"Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die:"

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Hare today, gone tomorrow…

A swim 🏊 to start the day before heading out on the #MTB 🙄
3 hares spotted, 2 close encounters with deer 🦌 A bit of rain, plenty of wind 💨 Went in search of a crop circle, they wanted £10 to go & walk inside it 🤣 that’ll be a no from this callsign.

Been bullied into going swimming 🏊 tomorrow morning, before I head out on the Mountain Bike 🙄

May as well throw in a run too & call it a triathlon 😱

Remember kids you can’t have trails in the woods or a Right to Roam as you may disturb the wildlife 🤔

Shakedown ride today, to make sure everything was OK 👌🏻 a windy💨 65km’s, unfortunately could get a view of the crop circle 😤

#MTB #Wiltshire #MountainBike

Catching up on the #MTB Men’s Elite XCO it should be called the MvDP Wankfest 🙄

There are other riders, we’re not interested in a rider who has crashed twice on Lap 1 & at the back of the field.

Photo of a scruffy man in a large jacket and jean riding a very early model mountain bike.

"One copy of the list and one of the watches is given to a scruffy looking 'official timer' who then jumps on his machine and vanishes downhill."
-from "Clunkers Among the Hills" by Charlie Kelly

Bicycling Magazine, January 1979
(first written in early 1978)

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Fair play of a double climb up Win Hill 👍🏻

It started out as a rear brake bleed (did the front last weekend 😜) & replace the broken cassette 🤔

Then the chain 🙄
Then the chainring 😤
…and finally the rear mech 🫩

At least now I know what caused the problem last weekend 🤣 Which to be honest was what I suspected 😳 the derailleur 😬

#MTB

Masculinity doesn't need restoration - it needs a redesign. From @profgalloway: The Masculinity Crisis. Boys are falling behind. In school, in work, in love - and nobody wants to talk about it.

🧵 1/7 There is a crisis - but not the one you think.

Boys and men are struggling with mental health, suicide, loneliness, and disconnection. That much is clear.

What with the Ping of Death 🤣

2 wrongs, don't make a right.