I see lots of inspiring pictures and reports about people in far flung places, riding exotic trails or pushing their limits nearer to home, some of the pictures from the recent Dirty Reiver were especially good as riders battled head winds and their own stamina. I see people riding gravel bikes like a trials bike, hopping about on the back wheel or doing gap jumps. I’m all for riding an “inappropriate” bike on surfaces and tracks where THEY say they’re not suitable, it’s all about #norulesjust ride after all. However, even though those adventurers inspire us and mass participation events are well attended not everyone has either the time or the money to go to these places or buy the very latest bike or kit. Most of us have a few hours at the weekend or after work now it’s staying lighter for longer and ride from the door on routes we’ve ridden so often we can ride them with eyes shut, and some would say that’s how my riding style looks like.
The following video is a tribute to those of us who make do with what we’ve got and still get a lot of fun out of it. It’s a cheeky homage to when I was little and we got back to school after a holiday and the teacher set us the job of writing “what i did on my holidays” and we had to read the essay out to everyone in the class when we’d finished. I seem to remember I’d got bored of this and started to add space travel and famous people into mine to spice it up a bit.
This is “Wot I did on my Easter Holidays”, I hope it inspires you to get your bike out even if it’s just to ride around the block. Just promise me you don’t do it with your eyes shut!
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