Told you that was the end

I walked to work on Monday night at 6 pm through the middle of Ramsey and passed 4 people, there are 10,000 that live here, where the hell are they?
This pic is of the park just 10 days ago. I cant believe how dead it is now, so it seems I'm really gonna have to make my own fun, which for the next hour means sitting watching the apprentice on Iplayer as i was at the gym last night.

I've had TT off for riding and gyming it and all that, and I feel it, its only been 2 and a half weeks but im caked, i rode 10 minutes to the gym last night, did some upper body, a few low weight over head squats and some plyo and flet ok. I'm using the gym in one of mum's friends garages, its pretty basic but does what i need, they have a gym bike and i was sitting spinning off as dave was doing the bench, "ooo how fast are you going? I average 43kph, we think it only goes to 50" says his missus, strapped my feet in, and 72.8kph later we found out it went a little faster. So thought i'd do some sprints on the way home, bad one, i feel like i've lost all my leg speed and threw up on my doorstep.

I watched the video's from chessy the other day, cruiser looked good, 19+ scott killed it, and elite... main 1, what the hell was tuffy doing? maybe it was just the camara angle but that wasnt a move, that was a deliberate KO and i'd have DQ'd him for it. but thats just me, woop woop, i get my 1st race at ramsey this year on sunday, i'll let u all know how it goes.

Thats whats up

TT is over and the rock is back to being boring, have been working the afternoon shift in the pub all week and its been dead, giving me time to read the independent and watch the extreme channel. There was a good article in the paper about things that have died a death in modern society that we should try and bring back, it all came about because orange sales have fallen because we cant be bothered to peel them, so for me its back to making fruit smoothies, having a proper wet shave and getting up an hour earlier to walk the dogs and have a proper breakfast.

Went to watch Athlete on Thursday night at the villa, yer they were tight and everyone was bouncing around to the 2 or 3 songs they new but as a band i really wasn't impressed, the guitarist who was awesome was stuck at the back of the stage in the dark and only being allowed towards the front twice, making sure that the lead singer/rhythm guitarist was given the limelight, he just seemed to be ur average skinny jean wearing twit for my liking, what the hell did he need with 4 guitars anyhow? if a band is gonna have a front man like him he may as well just have a house band play and see how well he does on his own.

Friday night was Jo Bo's 18th birthday bash, i was an ass, drank waaay too much at a pre party BBQ at scotts and really let myself down, drinking is fun and all that but don't go mad with it, you could go making mistakes that you just cant fix. I tend not to have regrets, you know, things happen, get over it, but the 2 i do have are both drinking related, its not big, its not clever and if your not a fun person sober don't go taking mind altering substances, just get loose on your own. Unfortunately there are sometimes when sorry doesn't quite cut it, i think this is one of them.

Went downhilling today, Scott rode his hardtail and let me get crazy on the Stab Supreme, had a couple of scary moments, but in general was a right laugh, Its just riding your bike innit, go out there and do whatever, I've still got my trials bike in the garage, i may even get that out for a play at some point, took a couple of good snaps on my phone too, this one of Touson, and the one at the top showing just why i love the isle of man, top of a downhill section and you can see sea, woop woop.

Check rich's blog, he moans that no-one blogs but i don't even have a link on his site, maybe one day hey.

27 e-mails later

We forget what an internet reliant world we live in, when I'm at uni my laptop is on most of the time and if i get an e-mail or there is a new post on the message board i know about it pretty asap. But being on the rock and not having broadband at home is a nightmare, I'm only home 3 months of the year and the prices are stupid over here so mum refuses, meaning I have to trek to the library every time i want to get the gossip.

Ah well, rant over, apart from that being at home is awesome, the weather has done its usual thing over here and been extreme, either good or bad, mostly sunny though. Saturday was 1st race so we went up to the Gooseneck to watch the last couple of sidecar laps, before hitting the beach for some american football, loads of fun, John mate, you got done!

Went out with the boys again on saturday night and had a right laugh, the thing about TT is that everyone is in the same frame of mind - HAVE FUN. So after getting a few beers at JC's and finding out his dark howls at police sirens, hilarious when you've had a couple, we hit the last bus into douglas, the nearer town you get the busier it gets and the banter started to liven up, with cider spraying and other stuff i'm not willing to tell you about. Town was good, same old really, fair, Bushys tent, then hit up The Outback, what a shit hole, funny though, the South African bouncer wasn't to keen on our rowdy behaviour, I soon ripped him to shreds, behind his back, the guy was huge.

Mad Sunday was abit wet but still loads of people around, i went over to street fighter but nothing much was on so we decided to go to peel, by complete fluke missed all the actual entertainment except the last band, Uber Room, great timing guys, we win, then we went over to douglas to watch the purple helmets, on the in the Isle of Man could you get away with such casual racism, sooo funny though. Monday a few of us had a BBQ on the beach but forget a lighter, so i rode round to a pub, went in for some matches and came out with a job, the good old Royal George, bad one. It was also Jo's 18th birthday so went out for a couple of drinks with that crew, the young lady was wasted, hilarious, more of that on Friday for her propper party, woop.

Tuesday was sprint day, Ramseys biggest day of the year, was pretty good, loads of stuff going on, with fools on bikes doing an 1/8th of a mile in under 6 seconds, and hitting 125+ mph in that time, kkkkrazy. Had a catch up with the North East John and Dan Butterfield and Adam Smith who have come over for a couple of days which was cool.

Anyhoe I've got work, more pics to comer

laters

They get china, i get the isle of man

So been back home since Wednesday, was pretty worried I'd get bored quickly, two and a half hours in and it happened, I was like, rrrrrrrright so what do i do know? Its all good though, after an initial slump i was getting occupied left right and centre, after the obligatory evening in the pub with the lads I could get into planning the next few days. Went for a run on the beach on Thursday morning with the dog which was cool, and then helped mum out doing some stuff at the yard shifting fences and all that man stuff she leaves until i get home.

Friday morning I went over to where there used to be some trails before uni, well i say trails, but they're more bumps with gaps in the middle, hey roy? ha. was OK though, people have been there and doing a bit but they just seemed in need of some TLC. So after 2 and a half hours with a spade the 1st 3 where looking pretty smooth. Heading up there later today to see how they ride so, woop woop.

Hit up Douglas last night to enjoy the atmosphere and catch a mates band. The prom got busier as the night went on, was going pretty good, we saw wheelies, doughnuts, endo's, 2 Lamborghinis, a Ferrari, ourselves on telly and boobs, love it. Headed up to the pub after that to see a mate from schools band, Uber Room, and without sounding too much like a massive cliche, check out their myspace. The supporting act are also pretty good and I know a couple of the guys, check them at On A Friday Space. Turns out that they wernt supporting at all and the only sign of Uber Room was Brian rocking away in the crowd, had a catch up with him and he assures me they will be playing somewhere in the Isle of Man in the next week, where n when, who knows?

Today is the 1st race of the TT and my house is on the inside of the course so i'm either in, or out for the day, out it is, the trails are calling me. The sun is out, and nothing is gonna get me down. As i write this Shanaze has just won the worlds, well done girl. Kelvin made quarters and in turn should have just qualified GB for an Olympic spot, lets hope so. Today is a good day. Big shout to all the other GB guys who did well this week, Flem W2, Andy Shaw W3, Ivesy W5, DH.com W1, Hilly W5, Marco W5.

I'm going home now

I'm off to the rock 2morow, and still haven't packed properly, its 0120, I've got to be up at 5 to drive to Liverpool and my room looks like a bomb site
Its all good though, today was down at EIS again doing much of the same from yesterday but experimenting with gears, all was good until i got back to Leeds at about 7 and realised i had the key for the laser timer in my bag, uho, a quick call to EIS later and Pete is going to drop it off on his way back down south tomorrow night, cheers man, much respect.

So yer, going home, its crazy, i haven't been back since Jet was put down, although he was a massive scary dog to some he was turning into one of the family and its gonna be strange without him about, what else has changed? mum's bought leather sofa's, new car, the track has changed apparently, there will be 60.000 bikers then when i get back, i guess the weather will be great one day then rubbish the next, but that's same old.

Keep checking back for blogs and things, although they will most likely be less frequent and pretty definitely be dam boring, I'll be back as soon as i can though, cant have Twarn ruling the north for too long.