well, contrary to popular thought, common sence and sanity, i convinced myself that the back was good enough to ride on last night. 1st problem was that just asi was leaving work i realised that id left my shoes at home. doh! quick dash home then out to St Ives for the short track XC.

did a warm up lap, all was good, downed a biddon before the start and rolled out on the pace lap. all was good, had a top 3rd start and moved my way towards the front.

then it all started to come undone... over an off camber loose and rocky corner the front went away and i left some nice collections of skin cells and blood on the ground got up, had a look around and determined nothing was broken then got back on and continued, picked up 3 or so positions in the next few laps then with 1 lap to go i feel somthing not quite right ont he fornt end. i lookat the front tyre and estimate maybee 10 psi pressure. doh! stopped for about 30 seconds and assesed the situation and decided to press on, jsut take it easy. passed 2 or so people that got passed when i stopped and finished towards the back. was still great fun.

cost of the night 10 bucks, 1 destryed pair of knicks ( 2nd time ridden on! ) and lots of nice pretty scars to upset the GF!