My favourite ride of the holiday. It's a long slog out of Deveses, up through Orba, Murla and Benigembla. I started kinda early and there is still a lot of mist about before the sun has revved up and started to toast the countryside. By the time I reach the foot of the mountain and the wiggly track up it, I've climbed 1200 ft from the coast and sea level, actually ...
We made it, we’re on holiday, we fucked up the booking and were en-route to Alicante with nowhere to stay, but after some messages and calls we have found ourselves in our favourite quiet spot in Les Deveses not far from the beach, in a casa that the new owners had no plans for renting, and we are very grateful that a bunch of unlikeliness fell together, perfectly. It’...
It’s a Mk1 frame from 2004, bought off Ebay. I built it up using parts from the Orange ST4, and this morning it went together perfectly nicely except for the internal routing for the back brake, which dunt work for fat Hope hoses. Cable ties instead. First impressions were that the suspension is really plush,the simple single-pivot design giving a very smooth ride. The forest was annoyingly muddy today, ...
6:00 AM, still dark here in Deveses, but warm. Very warm. My wheels know the way and before long I am pelting through the dark. I brought my monster 4000 lumen cycle light with me, it turns night into day and fits to the bike with a mount that is still in my shed, so I am using my tiny emergency LED lamps. It turns out that they are all I need, ...