Thinking Before I Rant

Initially I was going to get irritated by this article on the Mirror website and have some sort of rant about how unimpressed I was by their choice of the three best trail centres in Britain, especially when one of them was Swinley which is not up there in my opinion. Then I realised that it’s a good thing.

I mean if the Mirror are encouraging people to go riding I don’t particularly want them on the best trail centres on their BMXs (as in the picture). So I’m all for it. Let them ride Swinley (and only the boring bits!)

In other news there is a massive hike in the price of Boris Bike rental planned for the New Year which might be an interesting development to see if people keep using them as much as they have been, especially given the cold weather.

Talking Urban biking the clips are in from that weekend of city descending. From Kiev:

And form Sofia:

And there was this inspiring picture from the Descenco del Condor.

Finally Team Sky are having a bit of a tough time with their staff being injured as Head Coach Shane Sutton was knocked off his bike even as Wiggins was discharged from hospital.

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