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New School Racing / Re: 2025 Race Blog - Year 9 - Still Lunging for the Line!

« Last post by Mikku on June 10, 2025, 11:08 AM »

An unusually dry weekend meant that the postponed race from two weeks ago thankfully went ahead as scheduled. As I've been riding it a lot recently, I decided to give the Quamen its Japanese race debut, switching out the pedals, grips and seat for something more suitable but leaving the 43/16 gearing and knobbly Holy Roller tyres. There were 12 riders in the over 30s class, split into two racks of 6 with the top 4 going through. I went 4/4/3 with dices in every moto. Part of the reason for that was being much slower on the first straight where that lower gearing and the heavier weight of the Quamen (compared to the carbon GT and Redline) were definitely noticeable. Anyway, I squeezed into the main where I finished 7th, with a bit of leg cramp for good measure.


The next race is in 2 weeks, back at Joetsu when I'll return to using the UB2 to see if that really makes a difference to my performance and results. Bring it on!

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New School Park, Street & Dirt / Re: Skate Park Newbie

« Last post by ED209 on June 09, 2025, 03:39 PM »

Riding is the best part of BMX 

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on June 09, 2025, 12:39 PM »

Thanks dude. Enjoying a rest now ffs.

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by SDF on June 08, 2025, 08:55 PM »

Looking 👍 great.

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on June 07, 2025, 01:41 PM »

I bought Ma a new kitchen (sort of). This is the before. It was 15 years old.



So for less than 400 quid...



Unfortunately the kick boards arrived today, the day I had to come home ffs. Will finish that when I return.

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New School Park, Street & Dirt / Re: Skate Park Newbie

« Last post by Mikku on June 06, 2025, 02:38 PM »

Checked out that other skate park today and it was great! Further away and not quite as big as my local one but the quarter pipe is the perfect height to learn on and super wide too. Will therefore definitely be heading back there!!

As an added bonus there was a guy there on a hardtail mtb who I'd met for the first time last week at a pump track. It was he who'd told me about this skate park. Anyway, we got talking about bikes and when I said that I was looking for a park bike he said he had an old Sunday bike that I could have. It has a 20.5" tt rather than the 21" I'd ideally want but it looks like a fun not to mention cheap project! We'll see!

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New School Park, Street & Dirt / Re: Skate Park Newbie

« Last post by Mikku on June 02, 2025, 11:29 PM »

Yeah, I'm trying to avoid that!!

I was thinking of doing the same at ROM last summer, I shit out every time I planned to go. Maybe this summer 

Definitely give it a go mate! Pick a time when it's not so busy, then you can go at your own pace, etc.

I've just found out about another park in the same prefecture (county) as me, but 90 minutes' drive down the coast, so may have to give that a go at some point soon! Here's a link to some pics of that one:-

https://sk8parks.net/parkspot/narumiryokuchipark

I'm also ramping up (pun intended) the search for a park bike that I can chuck about and drop without worrying about damaging it!

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New School Park, Street & Dirt / Re: Skate Park Newbie

« Last post by Midschoolfool on June 02, 2025, 07:16 PM »

I started riding Southsea in 2018. Busted my ass and called it a day within a couple of months 

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BMX Chat / Re: Today I bought, or it got delivered, or I fitted...

« Last post by Midschoolfool on May 30, 2025, 04:31 PM »

Yeah on a fun scale I would deffo give it a 0 

It's still there. Well, I say there, but now it's at the top of my thighs. I am hoping it will go, I CBA going back to the doc for a 4th time ffs.

Fork came in. Cranks are here, bolts, stickers etc. Ordered some washers too !. Just been stupid busy. I had one of those convos with mum about two weeks ago. "Hmm, I wonder if we could get new doors for the kitchen?". FFS  Been working my ass off, but she's worth it. One of those ideas that quickly escalates !

Still, it will buy me enough "No complaining about bike resto" tokens for the year I reckon 

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New School Park, Street & Dirt / Re: Skate Park Newbie

« Last post by Chilli Rinse on May 29, 2025, 07:45 PM »

I was thinking of doing the same at ROM last summer, I shit out every time I planned to go. Maybe this summer