thomas cook airlines - a disaster

just got back from a great week's skiing in Sestrierre, Italy courtesy of Neilson.

Sadly the flights were with Thomas Cook Airlines.

8 hours delay outward,

13.5 hours delay return

never again

Great Rock Skills with Nigel Page

Just had an awesome w/e with Ed Oxley of Great Rock and Nigel Page and a great group of riders.

Two days skills training in Gisburn Forrest and excellent food provided by the Dog & Partridge.

What did I learn:

• that I need to practise alot more instead of just riding
• most importantly propper bunny hops and before that wheelies/manuals.
• fast turns
• drop offs (need the wheelie & bunny hop)
• skids
• body postion (i'm all wrong) - I'm too far back and not tall enough on the bike.
• posture - I need to be in what I have dubbed the silver back position - elbows up and out - not down & in
• keep my fork pressure pumped up !!!

One amazing thing was that doing the turns is just like skiing

• does that sound bizarre ?
• unweighting
• then weighting the tyres by pressing down especially on the outer foot.
• then unweighting again

first Blog

This is the sister blog to my techy blog Bill Comer's Blog

Wanting to keep techy stuff and owt'else separate I thought I would create this.