Blimey, a bike ride took place!!

Finally got out for a ride at the weekend. 15.93 miles SS.

This was the first ride for exactly 2 months and I felt terrible afterwards!

I have put a 17 tooth Surly cog on the back and its amazing what difference one tooth makes. Better on some loose and hilly bits but what a pain on flat tarmac. It helped my legs as they had very little in them about half way round, but the 16 tooth will go back on after a few rides, once my strength has come back a bit.

Reasonably dry but the fucking horses have made my favourite bits in Cossall, unrideable.

Welcome : The Nightwires

Russell and I have a new project:

The Nightwires

We are currently putting the finishing touches to our debut EP. We agreed not to do a 12 to 14 track album first as it would kill me! The last 3RC album took 200 plus hours and I cant do that again yet. Plus A. I dont think I have the time and B. I cant take another year of dissappointment if another album didn't take off.and C. we cant really afford to spend a grand again for next to no one to take notice of it.

So an EP gives us a foot in the door but I will make it as good as it can be. We need it to get gigs and get the name out there. It would be my dream for the EP to get us a deal so then we can do an album where someone else pays for it and records us. I'm really struggling to get enthused to do another album ourselves. Well I mean me record and produce it as it so time consuming. At least if we got a deal, someone else has the initial expense and does the hard work so I can just write the songs and perform them in the studio.

Was that a pig I just saw.........

New Stratocaster at last

So, the rosewood necked strat came and went. The nut on it was so badly cut that the g string jumped out of the nut when bending the string! Utter shit and doesn't say much for Fenders quality control.

So it went back and they were sending me another rosewood necked strat but they decided it wasn't saleable for some reason. I've therefore ended up with a maple necked version in black. I'm actually happy about it as I think solid colour strats do look better with a maple board.

It sounds like a strat! Setup on this one is much better and the action is probably a bit too low for me. 9 guage strings too but I cant be arsed to mess about with the action to put 10s on so the 9s will stay for the time being. Stange playing the PRS DGT after thought as that has 11s on it!!

I've bought some locking tuners for the strat which will make it alot easier to re-string and also a short tremolo arm ala Dave Gilmour, as the stock arm felt ridiculous to use.

I'm looking forward to recording with it and also trying out the David Gilmour patch on my Guitar Rig software.

In other news, still no bike ride since January 11th. I convinced myself I've been having a rest whilst the weather has been bad but I am now jonesing for a ride to let the cobwebs go and clear my head. My head has got blocked up with so much shit and I've realised the reason is that I've not been able to get out for a ride. I've always said that bike riding is the only thing that clears my head, alot more than guitar playing does. Which is strange given how much I love the guitar.

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