I went to bath track and did some first straights to work on my manuals until the clicking noise started to get too much so I went home and got showered and changed and took the bike to be fixed in Crucial. I had to help my Dad do some concreting in the afternoon so that was all I did on Tuesday.
Yesterday I had another busy day I got up at 6 and went to Bristol Track but is was really water logged so I decided to try and jump the second double on the first straight as I have been wanting to try and jump it for a while but I haven't had a chance to get to the track outside of racing to do it. It didn't go too well although I didn't crash and I did a couple where I didn't totally case but I need to work on my jumping skills I think. On a positive note my manual's are getting much better.
Here is a video of my training:
After training I had to rush home get showered and pick up my parents from Frome as they were coming to Bath to pick up their new car. After I dropped them off at the dealership I had to rush home and get ready for Pilates then in the evening I had a basketball match which I played really badly in! I need to spend a little less time on the bike and a little more time playing basketball I think!
It is pissing it down again today so I am going to do some stuff at home and then at lunch time I need to go to Crucial and pick up my Cruiser which has been fixed. It had to have a new headset as the bearings had gone in the one that was on the bike.
After riding yesterday I have decided that I am going to sell the 20" and build up a spare cruiser as the 20" is too different to the cruiser. I am going to strip the cranks, bottom bracket, brakes, grips, bars and seat off of the 20" and use the cranks, brakes and grips to build up my thrill frame that I got fixed last week. I picked some bombshell wheels up on Sunday from a friend who had upgraded his wheels a couple of weeks ago so once the bars arrive hopefully today I will be able to build up the spare cruiser tonight to see how it runs. I want to use the thrill as my training bike to ride to work and also use when I am training and keep the Haro as my gates and race bike to stop it getting too wrecked.
I am taking today as a rest day as I have a busy week end planned. Tomorrow I am going to get up early again and go to Tiverton in the morning and then meet up with a friend at Bristol at lunch time. Saturday we are planning to go to Torquay track for gates to get some practice in before the regional in a couple of weekends time (9th April) as I have never ridden the track and as I wasn't able to race the first race I need to do well in this race to get some points. On a positive note I easily beat the guy in 3rd place in my age group but the 2 guys ahead of him are really quick riders so I will need to be rinding at my best to have any kind of chance of beating them.
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