...and one week on from the "official" opening the drawbacks to FC money and promotion were all too obvious this morning.
EVERYBODY with a Halfords bike, and their wives and kids, is an experienced mountain biker all of a sudden - so expect to do the red and black trails at 2 mph from now on, behind a queue of biking families worried about getting their jeans and sweatshirts (and brand new bikes) dirty.
I used to come up to Haldon at the weekend to shake off a weeks worth of rat race on the Rat Run - now I might as well just sit in a traffic jam for a couple of hours.
