Jon82

Great project raising awareness of lymes and the riding was brilliant, one of the best edits I’ve watched in a while thanks so much. Working through recovery from lymes myself and have started to get back out again after 18 months off the bikehich is magic, at times I could barely walk let alone consider riding. After several courses of high strength antibiotics which made some impact, albeit with other side effects, I got to the end of the road with conventional medicine. 9 months ago I visited an alternative health practitioner and was out of breath with the half mile walk from the station to the practice, I can now manage 3-4 hour rides without extended recovery afterwards. I used to try riding and then was in a poor state for 1-2 weeks afterwards. For anyone in a similar position I wouldn’t rule it out so long as you are willing to make some lifestyle changes even if you are sceptical, as I was initially, it certainly helped my recovery. The other tip for joint pain is high strength curcumin, standard pain killers didn’t touch the pain I had in my joints anywhere near as well as a curcumin tablet daily. Was given that recommendation on a lymes forum and was the best piece of advice I have ever been given, still take a tablet daily to keep the inflammation at bay. The great thing with being a biker is you have all the incentive you need to get your health back and out smashing those trails again.

Well deserved, great company who truely value their workforce and promote British manufacturing as well as supporting riding development generally. Plus their products are excellent and last for ages.

Worth mentioning if it wasn't for FC kick starting the development of trail centres we would have far fewer to choose from right now, cafe at GT is leased so kinda up to people who run it to make it interesting.

Cameron zink Kurt sorge Boggs

Reasons i still enjoy riding my ht. No 1 in winter there is less maintenance, no.2 on some steep and tech loamy local trails i am faster on the ht than my full suspension bike and the main one no.3 the rear wheel breaks traction more readily on descents at slower speeds which makes the ride more fun.

I owned an Orange Mr O and raced DH on it for best part of 5 years and rode it for a further five years on local trails, only replaced the pivot bearings once in that time, sadly after continuous abuse it did eventually crack but ten years aint bad. The single pivot ride is excellent and to put things in perspective when Honda took on the world cup DH circuit they chose to use single pivot and they have R&D resources most bike manufacturers could only dream of.