Not much happening at the moment

A dodgy back

Wednesday 30th Sept

Well, after hurting my back at Easter, and going all summer without a hint of trouble......

I was loading the van with heavy concrete fence posts and.... bang! The back just went into lock-down!

I have been going to physio twice a week and still working with light duties, it couldn't have happened at a worst time, I have got a massive list of work and a lot of it is heavy stuff.

Any way, there is light at the end of the tunnel, the physio says I can probably go kayaking at half term week, and I've paid a deposit for a weekend at Fort Belan which gaurds the Menia Straights in North Wales. This is for 13th November so hopefully I can paddle.

In the mean time, and as special gift to Connor for being so good when he started at school, I have made hime a trials bike.

Some pictures:

Connor not happy I had ordered a girls bike from ebay! £20! Bargain

We stripped it down to bare metal


Added some fancy strengthening gussets, and capped off the seat tube


Then painted it with acid etch primer

We painted it Rover Pageant Blue, 4 coates and 2 laquare

I made up a 'bash gaurd' from aluminium

Also made up this 'anti trap' seat from an Ikea chopping board!

With everything we had assembled we now had to wait for a delivery of parts from Ireland, it seemed to get lost for 5 days in the post!

Finally we got the ordered bits, and fitted the cranks. They were from a unicycle shop, and had no chainring mountings, I had to make them up myself.

Its nearly done, we are awaiting a new back wheel, as it turned out the hub is no good! Just need the handlebar grips sorting and a good spanner check then its off to the woods for some trials riding! (at least for Connor anyway).