It’s been a warm but wet week and despite being a bit damp underwheel, Aston Hill is looking damn fine. Trails are on the whole nicely tacky and very rideable with not a speck of dust in sight. Saturday is looking better - if the deluge that’s forecasted Sunday morning arrives then it may make conditions interesting for a while, which means the afternoon is probably the better option.

Tyre choice for the weekend? High Rollers is where it’s at.

XC or DH? Toughie, but I reckon DH could win it on Saturday.

New tunes to listen to on the roadtrip over? It’s gotta be Therapy?’s Crooked Timber.

Rock on!

It’s been a very mixed week, but there has been a lot of wet stuff falling from the sky over the last few days.

Today is no different - after a damp day yesterday and a wet morning, the Hill is going to be fairly testing today before looking somewhat drier tomorrow.

There’s two ways of looking at this. You can either make your excuses, crack open a beer and watch whatever rubbish is on TV, or you can man-(or woman-)up and accept that it’s wet but it’s excellent training for dialling handling skills, practicing wet sections, getting drifts down and developing good trail skills.

So whatcha gonna do?

Me? Why - it’s beer o’clock!