Robots are cool

There is no better time than spring. Recently I’ve been out on a couple of days that definitely qualify as spring time, even if just by the skin of their teeth. March is a crap month. I’m fully bored of the so-called winter and just want some light and energy to return to the country. It feels so close, yet there are still a couple of weeks to wait yet. To add insult to injury, it’s always a wet couple of weeks. Enough already, let’s get on with some of the good life. I’ve had a couple of good days out recently with Andy W – early doors up at the N3 singletrack heaven – and Dave and Karl Blundell, an old X-Teamer who we’ve not seen for years. Neither days were particuarly summery, but they did show hints of those perfect days and they’ve got me hyped to the max.

Brendan talks about The Plans. He’s right, there’s no better time than spring to get dreaming of what this perfect summer will entail. He is talking about biking in between jobs and I must confess to being rather jealou, although I hope he has a great week of biking or whatever he gets up to. This year I’m planning on getting a load of biking done in Scotland. I want to be fit, but I don’t care about events. I just want to be be plenty fit enough to do big rides in the hills without worry and be able to ride all the trails I want. This year my focus will be ‘soul biking’ (or whatever) – I’m going to find the best piece of six inch wide technical singletrack in the county and ride it with my friends until the grin consumes my entire face. And then I’m going to find another best piece of six inch wide singletrack in the country and ride that. Fuck yeah! Bring on the summer, I can’t stop day-dreaming about it.