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Me and a couple of mates where back on the rocky road this weekend in Astley Park Chorley. The weather was good after a week of rain. I had spent the morning cleaning the muck off my bike from the slate mine run a month back. I lubricated all my cables so they flowed easily (no puns intended stu - kathryn). Then retuned my gears so they didn't skip and jump.

I met up with my mates then we had a blitz round Astley Park. Finnan wanted to get some film footage for his myspace page. We decided on filming him doing a few of the bigger downhills with some artistic camera angles. One of the cooler shots can be seen above. Here you can see Finnan motoring at high speed after negotiating a huge set of steps. We set up a camera position by standing on a bin in the background.

After a good mountain bike session and caped in mud again I need'nt have wasted a morning washing my bike. Oh well part of the fun getting dirty.