A few more minutes of hell

Time Trial Tunnel

Dead posh bike boutique, Vita Cycles, organised a time trial in the Birkenhead tunnel, under the title of '10 Minutes Of Hell'. Although they claimed it was the first ever TT through there, it wasn't, cos I remember riding in the Tunnel Of Doom TT a few years ago, but I have to say, computer chip timings, an empty tunnel and brilliant organisation did make this a way better event.
I know the whole thing divided opinions on the cost of entry, the high profile prizes which were obviously only ever going to the pros, pre race season etc etc. I was happy to support it and go and spectate. You can't please all the people all the time, we all love a moan. One of the things I liked the most was the fact that it wasn't a British Cycling event, in my experience, independent events do encourage cycling alot more than the British Cycling events.
My adequate cycling hero, Alan Shuttleworth was first to ride and did it on his racing trike. Alex Dowsett was last to ride and was literally at the other end of the cycling scale with his Sky Team Pro contract, hyper Pinarello bike and National Time Trial skinsuit. Alex completed the ride with a truly insane time of 8 minutes 28 seconds to claim a shit load of money and a crazy, smart, posh watch.
Do that computer search thing and have a blimp at Vita Cycle Irby for a list of times and more info.

Valentine. Annual post.

Sometimes it's better not to stick bits of each other in each other for each other

Art. Girl

Not sure what the inspiration was behind this painting?haha. It only took an hour or so to paint from start to finish, there's only a few lines to her. It was only a matter of time before I took my subject matter back to the gutter.

Winter rollin

This how I've been rollin for longer rides at the mo. Bullhorns, Shimano SPR road pedals, saddlebag, lights, back race blade mudguard, looking stealth in black, winter bib tights, jacket, gloves, overshoes, snood, cap and helmet. No such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.

2012. Year of the Dragon

Went into Liverpool today to check out all the fire cracker mayhem. Pretty rammed.

Art. Out of Proportion Portraits

These are all purposely out of proportion on purpose and they all have blank eyes, this was to mimic alot of religious paintings, alot of which denoted figures with blank eyes. I always wondered about this since they say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Does that mean there is no soul to religion? Shit, sometimes i do give some thought to stuff.