http://peakcyclehire.com/blog I not only hire quality bikes in the Peak District, I also ride them. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:54:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I may post here occasionally, but for the time being, I've migrated to a new blog. http://sometimesridesbikes.blogspot.com/ If you are looking for my photo website, then that can be found at http://qwertyphoto.com Cheers Rich http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=163 No riding for me this year. I just rolled up to take pictures. A sort of anniversary really as this time last year after packing at the race I took my first event photos, latest from SITS can be found at  qwertyphoto.com. A great weekend with so much worthy of mention. ... http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=162 It's been a funny year this one. After a flying start last year to the bike hire business, this year has been a bit of a damp squib. That coupled with more an more of my time being commissioned to take pictures, regrettably means it is time to wind up the ... http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=161 No riding for me this year at Mountain mayhem. Instead I went armed with my camera to record 24 hours of Mountain Bike racing, and what good fun it was too. Here's a small selection of the photos I took at the event. Copies of all can be ordered via my picture ... http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=160 Lots of you nice people suggested I start selling my pictures. So I’ve set up a website to host my pictures with a paypal checkout. I started work on it some time ago, and finally seem to have a site that works, though there’s still some stuff to do. Qwertyphoto.com features ... http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=159 The first event I've done this year after Nick Craig's recommendation. We went down on Saturday after sorting out some hire bikes, and unusually Wales was bathed in sunshine. Nice. A couple of beers on the Saturday evening plus music courtesy of Syspender. After some heavy rain during the night, a sunny day ... http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=157 I love it when folk come up with unusual ideas. ~100K in the peak mainly off road would be great. "Singlespeeds are the bike choice for the day!" she says. Err. Crazy. I only have a fixed one gear bike, so that's what I rode. I couldn't make their 6:45 rendezvous meeting ... http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=156 Until today, I hadn't ridden a bike for ages.  Busy working some of the time, the rest being lazy, procrastinating, and drinking red wine. I'd planned to go out earlier in the week, but it just didn't happen. Anyway today I did it. I went out for a ride. I could have ... http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=155 If you do you can follow me at https://twitter.com/richpips http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=154 Some new mountain bike forthcoming XC events in the Rossendale Valley. Dates Sunday April 19th 2009 Monday May 4th 2009 Sunday May 17th 2009 Sunday May 31st 2009 More details can be found at http://brownbacksracing.co.uk/ Oh yes, and I took the pictures. http://peakcyclehire.com/blog/?p=153