Metsätyttö
Sunday, 15. June 2008, 22:12:28
It's been one of those weekends where I didn't really get the chance to stop and do very little.
I stayed in on Friday night and worked on this website for this run which my brother and I are doing in October. If you've never hand-coded a website before, you might not realise how long it can take – it's at about 4 hours work so far. I could just use a website editor, but I'd rather not. I used to make websites for a living, and I find working with code pretty therapeutic. It's like clay to me.
So Saturday night was a trip to Brighton with a friend from work. There isn't much to report from it: we went to one nice venue, and the rest were all straight ones. That's mostly because one of the guys who turned up wasn't so keen on gay venues. I'm getting slightly vexed with Brighton: every time I go to Brighton I go with straight people to straight places, and while there is nothing wrong with that, why go to Brighton at all??
So that was disappointing, but at least nobody died.
Deep in Tilgate Forest. Tilgate Forest is the forest just to the south of Crawley. It used to be part of a massive estate, but now it's just a small area outside of Crawley. I spent maybe an hour cruising round the forest – there are some nice, and some pretty tricky trails in the forest. There are still a few puddles, and the mud in them is deadly: because the soil round here is fine and a bit sandy it turns into quicksand when it gets wet. The puddles trap you, it's almost impossible to bounce straight through them, like I would do when I lived in Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire is mostly clay, so puddles are easier up there!
My problem with puddles is exacerbated by the tyres on the bike. I still have the shop fitted tyres, and of course, most people who buy MTBs use them for a few weeks in the summer and never go off-road, so shops fit budget rate road-tyres.
Looking back across Crawley. I like that in this picture you can't really see the town, although you are looking that way.
I have a problem with my brakes as well. For the same reason that that tyres are a bit weak, the brake blocks didn't last that well either. I've had the bike about 5 months, and the brake blocks are pretty dead. They gave up on me while I was in the forest trying to get down a really thin, quite steep trail – not the best time for brakes to get a bit flaky. So there are a couple of things which I need to fix before July 12th.
The Ant. There are lots on ants in Tilgate Forest.
I stayed in on Friday night and worked on this website for this run which my brother and I are doing in October. If you've never hand-coded a website before, you might not realise how long it can take – it's at about 4 hours work so far. I could just use a website editor, but I'd rather not. I used to make websites for a living, and I find working with code pretty therapeutic. It's like clay to me.
So Saturday night was a trip to Brighton with a friend from work. There isn't much to report from it: we went to one nice venue, and the rest were all straight ones. That's mostly because one of the guys who turned up wasn't so keen on gay venues. I'm getting slightly vexed with Brighton: every time I go to Brighton I go with straight people to straight places, and while there is nothing wrong with that, why go to Brighton at all??
So that was disappointing, but at least nobody died.
Deep in Tilgate Forest. Tilgate Forest is the forest just to the south of Crawley. It used to be part of a massive estate, but now it's just a small area outside of Crawley. I spent maybe an hour cruising round the forest – there are some nice, and some pretty tricky trails in the forest. There are still a few puddles, and the mud in them is deadly: because the soil round here is fine and a bit sandy it turns into quicksand when it gets wet. The puddles trap you, it's almost impossible to bounce straight through them, like I would do when I lived in Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire is mostly clay, so puddles are easier up there!
My problem with puddles is exacerbated by the tyres on the bike. I still have the shop fitted tyres, and of course, most people who buy MTBs use them for a few weeks in the summer and never go off-road, so shops fit budget rate road-tyres.
Looking back across Crawley. I like that in this picture you can't really see the town, although you are looking that way.
I have a problem with my brakes as well. For the same reason that that tyres are a bit weak, the brake blocks didn't last that well either. I've had the bike about 5 months, and the brake blocks are pretty dead. They gave up on me while I was in the forest trying to get down a really thin, quite steep trail – not the best time for brakes to get a bit flaky. So there are a couple of things which I need to fix before July 12th.
The Ant. There are lots on ants in Tilgate Forest.
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