Just Riding Along

A combination of awesome downhill skills, raw power and some NoTubes rims saw our team rider Dan winning the Ae Forest Avalanche Enduro last weekend. A full report will be up soon, but for now just enjoy the Euro music from the prize presentation...

the JRA hamster expired
Regular visitors to the site might have spotted more than just a few glitches over the last week, in fact the whole lot disappeared for a couple of days. Something drastic broke on our server and as luck would have it, it co-incided with our website hosting company going bust.
We'd had inklings that all might not be well the the hosting company (Burton Hosting) as service levels gradually deteriorated from instantaneous response  to not answering phone calls, emails or support tickets over the course of a year, and luckily we had sorted out a new host and taken backups. It still caused a load of trouble but I think we're back to normal now. If anyone reading this knows what actually happened to Burton Hosting I'd be interested to hear about it.
In other unrelated website destruction news, Singletrackworld.com were hacked by some unscrupulous 6th form students who then posted their entire user database on a hacking website. This is a bit of an unpleasant thing to happen at the best of times but they could have probably done without working hard all through Christmas so we wish them all the best getting it back up and running...[ continue reading >> ]

XC Racer calendar

We've very kindly been sent from either Luke or Martyn, (no names were attached) a copy of their limited edition XC Racer calender. It's big and glossy and quite impressive although I know some of the photos have come out darker than they hoped. I'm not sure why we've got one but it will go on the office wall next year, so thanks.

ok it reads 1.47 'cos I was slow finding the picture.

We never thought it would seem like we're running a financial website but at the moment it feels like we do more sums than bike stuff.

We have reduced VAT to 15% this will reduce a £100 item to £97.90.

The pound is still falling against the dollar currently $1.45 to the pound, and our prices may rise with the next shipments of both NoTubes and Industry 9 up to another possible 17.2% (the exchange rate change since we last calculated prices) so your £97.90 becomes £114.74.

Suppliers are also raising prices and Maxxis stock will be put up in price next week with DH tyres going up the most by up to £8 and XC tyres less so. We regret we can not do anything to hold prices if the pound keeps falling.

The bottom line is don't delay your purchases.

15.12.08 UPDATE: New Maxxis stock is in so the prices of all tyres are due to go up this week ... when we get round to it...

We've moved the shop onto the .com domain (it used to be on the .co.uk one) and shifted this news area onto www.justridingalong.com/news/.

It might not all work properly so if you find a problem, please let me know... jon@justridingalong.com

thanks

Checking I had spelled drivel right I found Google.co.uk has pointed 'drivel' to the Guardian Horoscopes, I searched the page and the cached for a genuine mention of the word drivel but seems they might have got it right. I'm on the look out for "zany characters you would normally give a wide berth."

More boringly it may have mentioned the previous "Drink Drivel" article but it looks too good to be a coincidence.

Back to the subject, if you have any words you would like to publish on the world wide web to be ignored with everyone else's in the torrent of blogs do send them over. We're slowly trying to drag Just Riding Along back to the realms of a topical website.

We're doing DIY whilst sending out orders at the new place although we've only had to phone one person back as we were up a ladder at the time. We've fitted in some new Race wheel builds between coats of paint which can been seen here on the 'Custard Cream' coloured paint tin.

We have moved. Our new phone number is:

0114 2322050

That is all...

Yes, I admit it, I've been too busy. The whole cycle industry seems to have expoded into life and it's a major effort just trying to keep everything in stock, all the suppliers keep running out of the sort of thing you'd think would never run out like spokes and tyres never mind the bigger stuff. It's all good for us of course but a bit of a surprise what with interest rate rises on the horizon and general economic nervousness but the amazing April weather must have kicked it all off.

Anyway we have been getting out and riding a fair bit, at the expense of this blog, and heading up to Wharncliffe quite a bit as well as the Bole Hills and out in the Peaks. This weekend it's going to be the Lakes and hopefully this weather will carry on a bit longer...