Like Little Flowers
One of the downsides to living in a steep sided valley is that you don’t actually see any sunlight for about three months of the year. My house isn’t actually touched by the sun from December to February, while at the office, downtown, the sun ’sets’ behind the hill at 2pm in the winter. And one of the downsides to working on a mountain bike magazine is that you rarely make enough day-time to ride bikes, and we do most of our riding and testing in the evenings.
So it was a great experience to actually make it out of the office for a bike ride/product test ride in daylight and in the actual sunshine. Matt was the instigator and Ben and Mark joined him. We rode up out of the valley and onto the frozen moor-tops, where we could enjoy some blessed sunshine. And like flowers kept in the shade for too long, we visibly perked up at the novelty of riding bikes during work time. It is our job, after all… 
December 13th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
it was good to blast all the snot out of my nose (albeit temporarily!)
December 17th, 2007 at 11:40 am
It was great! Mind you just as I reached the top of the climb up to gaddings some cock cut me up.. I count it as a clean though