So here's me!!!
about me:-
I live on the coast 16miles out of Southampton, i am a northerner masquerading as a southerner, originally from Scunthorpe, Manchester, Norfolk then here for the last 20 years so i am mostly southern shandy drinker!
I work on a chemical plant, in a lab, I get to wear a really cool white coat, and it's shift work, hence seeing some of my posting times at daft o'clock in the morning! it's dull work but it a good wage so I have no complaints really.
I did my time in the bike trade, 12 years, at 3 different shops, Solent cycles which went bust after i left, then Cyclexperience in Brockenhurst in the New Forest where i opened 2 more shops for them, Christchurch, and Hythe (the afore mentioned Solent cycles shop) all 3 are still doing well. Then i went to work for GA cycles in Southampton which was more high end, there i built 4 bikes for the Yamaha-Utag team which won the Ride Across AMerica (RAAM) vets catagory the first time they tried
i left the bike trade mainly for money

if i stayed i would never beable to buy my own place

as much as i loved it i don't regret the move to the chemical industry.
bikes:-
92 kona explosif
92 orange aluminium O
92 orange aluminium O
93 orange elite
93 orange clockwork
95 orange E3
95 orange P7
95 orange vit T2
96? proflex
99? orange evo 2?
06 orange patriot 66
07 orange clockwork limited edition number 200/200
08 strange orange st4
95 cougar
96 orange dynamo2
99 fausto coppi
09 condor
10 condor singlespeed
03 lime crosswork cyclocross bike
i ride mainly in the New Forest as that's where i live but i love riding in Wales, this year i intend to ride further north, hopefully Scotland.
here's some pics
YOUR TURN!!!!!

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