This week we managed to trial fit the exhaust, rear roll cage support struts and modified the Plenum pipe (oooer!)

Thanks to Mat and Jason for the help!!

Best / worst crash?

– When I was riding one of our secret downhill tracks and I got a bit to ‘nose heavy’ on a drop. I put my arm out to save myself as I went over the bars and snapped my Radius and Ulna bones in my forearm. It was pointing back towards my head like I had a second elbow! I had two plates, twelve screws, a skin graft and a stomach pump out of that one.

Faviroute sport asides Cycling?

 I am a big motor sport fan. I love karting and would class myself as pretty good at it!

     What career would you be involved with if you weren’t a cycle mechanic?

 Tough one, I think I’d probably be a free-lance journalist / product tester. I enjoy writing and I enjoy riding my bike so I’d like to combine the two I think.

    Strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?

 Foie Gras. Which now I’ve looked up the recipie     I’m not sure why I ordered or ate it. An aquired taste you could say…

Desert Island Discs

 – 5 Albums you’d have with you on a desert Island… 1, Prodigy (The Fat of The Land) 2, Pendulum (Hold your Colour) 3, Jurrasic 5 (Quality control) 4, INXS (Kick) 5, DJ Yoda  (How to cut and paste)

What do you want for Christmas?

 A shiny ltd edition 29er from Niner bikes!

Faviroute word?

 Wang. So many uses. WANG it over there, you WANGer etc…

Faviroute Word font?

 Tahoma. Just because.

1. Best/Worst Crash?

 When I was about 10, I was racing my friend on my BMX, I was storming along when my hand randomly slipped off of the bars and I managed to fall over the handlebars. My whole face was basically swollen and I had to have my food mashed up so I could actually swallow it!

1. Favourite sport (other than cycling)?

 For that I would definitely choose basketball because it is an amazing sport that requires a lot of skill to succeed. I just wish the sport was bigger in the UK. =(

1. What Career would you be involved in if you weren’t an (apprentice) Cycle mechanic?

 I would definitely like to think I have the talent to become a professional basketball player, but who knows???

1. Strangest thing you’ve ever eaten?

 Grass

1. Desert island disks ( 5 albums) –

 -Jay-z The Hits Collection

-Limp Bizkit’s greatest hits

-Chamillionaire Venom

-Gym Class Heroes As cruel as school children

-Hazen St.

1. What do you want for Christmas?

 A job…

1. Favourite Word?

 Bangkok

1. Favourite Font?

 Wingdings  because it’s pretty random.

Q1

My best crash has to be the 2mph over the bars onto face incident in the car park in wendover. I was mucking around showing off the miss spent youth car park bike skills and had a massive stack onto my face on the concrete in front of two quite hot mums and everyone I was about to go riding with. Much abuse later we got riding but i was already battered and bruised before we even hit the hill.

Or the day I had 3 big crashes in a row and almost cried.

Q2

Defiantly not darts! Can’t believe people even consider it  a sport! Did you see that darts guy that got 3^rd in the sports personality of the year award try and get out of his seat? Its was like watching fat Albert try to pick up a quid off the floor….

So my fav has to be formula one. It’s a team sport and an individual discipline at the same time and optimises competition and technology….plus the pit girls are awesome!

Q3

I think the only credible skill i have other than anything to do with bikes is music. I would probably be a sound engineer or maybe even a musician full time. That would be sweet, just getting up in the morning and going straight into your studio and drink tea and make noise all day. Perfect.

Q4

I once ate a guinnepig shit. Long story, i was tricked and i thought it was a raisin.

Q5

Whitest boy alive- dreams

Placebo- Placebo

Fourtet- rounds

Bon iver- for emma

Roots manuva- run come save me

Q6

I want a Susan boil shower curtain. Don’t laugh…..they do exist.

Q7

Current favourite word is Kiosk.

Q8

Trebuchet….every time.

it takes 100,000 hours of practice to become professional at something…..

Rossi has probably spent 100,000 hours with his head inches from the floor.

YEAH!

Through the len looking at the subjects discussing how they g… on Twitpic.

Ive decided to add scrubs to the friday lean….

its an oldie but a goodie…

brenden getting low…..

We’ve been running a Home Mechanics course alongside our esteemed Level 3 course this week here at ATG-Training and I’ve been inspired to nominate the humble Magnet as this weeks Tool Of The Week, based on one of the learners, who commented, completely without the knowledge of this Blog, that this was his ‘Tool Of The Week’! I asked him to explain why, to which he held the magnet into the rear hub he was working on and extracted – in one go – Nine Quarter inch ball bearings.

 No messing, no fuss, no ball bearings on the floor or underneath the nearest heaviest object (a phenomenum we know as Fridge-suck here at ATG) Simple.

It’s also useful if you’ve dropped a pesky screw onto the floor and can’t find or reach it, just make sure you remember it’s no good on brass or plastic (duh)

Fancy using our magnets? then get yourself onto one of our courses pronto!