Kirsty Wallis was one of the TORQ-tuned when she wrote this last summer and now I coach her other half Nick, whilst Kirsty returns to her first love ‘horse riding’ (first love after Nick of course). Anyway, until now (when I actually got round to reading the account of her trip), I was confused at why such an enthusiastic rider would trade-in Mountain Biking for horse riding – all that mucking out has to be harder work than putting hose over your olde faithful jalopy at the end of a ride? Read on and you’ll see why Kirsty packed it in. That’s far too much riding in one day Kirsty, for heaven’s sake girl…
I think it might have been my idea, I can’t really remember as I was the best part of the way through a bottle of wine at the time. Anyway, in a slightly drunken haze me and Nick obviously thought it would be clever. We phoned our mate John (at a barbecue in Bristol, also a little inebriated) and the plan was set…
5 Welsh Mountain Bike Centres
3 Riders
1 Speed
We were going to do Wales in a day. On single speeds. We must be stupid!