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Bike: Chameleon
Distance: 48 miles

Lovely day for a ride but a proper hard offroad slog for me. Up to Rivington, over Winter Hill past the mast, down to Belmont, over to Simon’s path and up onto Darwen moor, couldn’t be arsed riding to the tower so headed back down to Roddlesworth and back to Rivington via White Coppice and Anglezarke.

A fine ride but it left me completely shagged. My front brake squealed the entire ride which really wound me up and the back wheel is starting to sound a bit loose which is fine for the most part but makes a hell of a racket over the rocky stuff. Oh, and my forks appear to have broke, they bottom ourt real easy now. Damping or something, might try changing the oil. Met Matt on his broken 29er, not seen him for a while. Seems chirpy enough. Loads of riders out, good to see but it’s nice I still know where to find the quiet places.

Edit: And I passed 1000 miles for the year. Very low mileage but they’ve been good miles.