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Offline Sam

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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #780 on: 16 October 2012, 21:41 »
Went on my first night ride tonight around a local trail centre after I borrowed a lamp. It was friggin awesome, gonna get on ebay and get a set. Thats the cold muddy winter nights sorted.... :evil:


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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #781 on: 25 October 2012, 19:25 »
have been doing some night rides recently too, bought a cree xml light 1800 lumens for £30 off ebay, my god is it bright! too bright for road use but brilliant for in the woods

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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #782 on: 25 October 2012, 19:27 »
I need to get out on mine!  :grin: might go for a ride tonight!

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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #783 on: 27 October 2012, 16:58 »
Goodies! Aka £15 helmet and £2.99 splash guard!  :grin:





And then blew the rest of my feeble wage packet on two sets of these... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/140744146377?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2648
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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #784 on: 28 October 2012, 13:39 »
Been out this morning, still plenty of time on what is a lovely autumnal day... GET OUT!


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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #785 on: 28 October 2012, 19:41 »
Saw this and thought of you guys... my shed is getting there to be honest  :grin:



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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #786 on: 28 October 2012, 20:44 »
Ha, my shed wasn't far off this about a year or so ago but when i moved house a LOT of them had to go on ebay or in the big skip in the sky.  :cry:

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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #787 on: 29 October 2012, 16:12 »
That shed is resembling my sapre room... Ive recently been applying the following formula to the number of bikes I NEED:

N = X + 1

Were N is the number of bikes required,

and X = the current number of bikes.


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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #788 on: 08 November 2012, 19:07 »
So this christmas I shall be MTBing in Nepal :laugh:

I can't bloody wait, should be epic!

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Re: Official MTB thread
« Reply #789 on: 08 November 2012, 21:11 »
You jammy bastard!!! Ill be there in a couple years will be doing New Zealand next year :cool:
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