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My Bikes:
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A Raleigh Activator which is now very rusty and has been well used and if it could talk would have some stories to tell! I currently use it for cycling from my home to my local train station and back again.
A Carrera Kraken 2001 model. I have only recently got this bike so I am still breaking it in, though I have gone pretty fast on it around some blind corners and have done some X-Country on it but it has Semi-Slick tyres on it and I was doing some very muddy routes, which meant I had lots of fun!.
Raleigh Activator:
I got this bike for my birthday approximatly 10 years ago. It was my first "proper" bike, it came with Front suspension and rapid fire shifters, which for the price range of the bike (approximatly £200) was extremly rare, it also had (and still does) 21 gears and is very heavy. It was a great bike to ride and to me anyway has a very nice riding posistion. At first I would normally just do some "onroad" riding, such as cycling to Doune (a village near where I stay) and back and ride around the city where I stay. Having the front suspension was good as hitting pot holes and bumping up onto pavements (some with very high curbs) really did no damage to the bike as the suspension took the impact (One of my friend's bikes collapsed after hitting a pot hole). I then moved to offroad cycling, which iniatially was nothing more than following well worn and pot holed farm tracks, as well as some routes that no longer exist and this progressed to some actual offroading. This was usually so that I could get to a hill that I could cycle down or perhaps more accuratly fly down whilst hanging onto my bike for dear life but it is fun.
I then went onto high school where I finally met some other people who like cycling (I went to a very small primary school, only 3 classrooms!). At a high there would be maybe 11 of of us cycling out of school at once. It also meant that I no longer needed to cycle by myself! This also tended to mean that I did mainly "onroad" cycling again and the offroad cycling was now mainly limited to old rights of way to get to places.
The Raleigh Activator has now been retired from leisure use due to the poor state it is in as mentioned above. This is mainly because it was left at my local train station all day whilst I was at the University of Glasgow, and for those of you who don't know Scotland that while we tend to get a lot of rain.
Carrera Kraken 2001 model:
I got this bike in the March of 2002 after approximatly 4 years of my friends saying that I should get a new bike.
The main reason however is that my Activator is now hard work to cycle and the brakes are no longer the best so I needed a bike for leisure riding. It has Top Gun Front Suspension, Mechanical Front Disc Brakes, Rear V-Brakes, 24 gears and a light weight blue frame which matches my helmet exactly!
unfortunatly due to me being busy at university, having a part time job and bad weather I havn't had much chance to ride it, however when I do it is mainly "The Kinbuck Run" which is a fast route to Kinbuck which doesn't have alot of traffic and has a lot of fast "bits" no matter which way you cycle it. As a bonus it also has a nice steep grassy hill at the end of it.
I am hoping on doing some more adventourus and interesting rides with it in the future and I will hopefully remember to keep this page updated.
Other Links: I am a member of Team Linux UK, which takes part in various distributed processing projects.
You can visit my first and popular website about the Amstrad 1512 here.
See some of the photographs I have taken here.
And my current favourite photograph here