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Gender: Male
Age: 30
Town/City: Gateshead
Member since: 10th April 2008
Website: www.oodboo.co.uk
My Local Trails:  
Powerline Trail - Chopwell
Castlewood Skills Loop - Kielder Forest
Deadwater Trails - Kielder Forest
High Voltage Trail - Chopwell
Outside Line Trail - Chopwell
About me

Been riding for too long to remember. I got interested in bikes at a young age (about 6 or 7) building bikes out of parts in my granddads shed. Then riding them - without tyres.

My first mountain bike was an Amaco Manhattan that I got for Christmas one year. It was a proper mountain bike because it had centre pull brakes! I had that until it got nicked.

After that I got a Carrera Catalyst which I thought was the muts nuts. It had an elevated chainstay and weight in at around 1 metric tonne.

Things started to get a bit more serious when I snapped the frame on that and replaced it with an Orange Prestige frame. I kept upgrading this until it was mostly XT on Mavic rims. That lasted until about three years ago when I when I knacked it.

Then about 6 months ago I got myself a Specialized FSRxc and can be found crawling up hills and flying uncontrollably down them at places like Chopwell and Kielder.

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www.moredirt.co.uk/users/oodboo/

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    katie too wrote..

    on (14/09/2008 19:03)

    Thanks for that. I'll stop being a wuss one day, I'm sure. I don't ride without me gloves now but at the time I didn't have any. Hope you enjoyed the Chopwell ride. John's annoyingly fit and just powers up the hills, I find it highly irritating!

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    katie too wrote..

    on (30/08/2008 14:07)

    Hello! Haven't seen many very many people from round our way on here. I saw you through my fellas page (the waster below!) and thought I'd say hi. I see you ride the same trails as us. Although I probably do them a lot slower than most!

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    mega_waster wrote..

    on (17/08/2008 18:03)

    Ok, mint! I have to be at a night time wedding doo that day so it'd be good to do the ride fairly early in the day. Would that be ok? Tell me more about memory map. Have you paid for that? Do you know of any other MBR trails near us?

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    mega_waster wrote..

    on (16/08/2008 17:46)

    What is that map thing? To do with google is it? Looks very useful. Looks like the route has a couple of killer climbs. Seems to be mostly moorland with a little bit of a wooded area. Probably best to avoid on a windy day. I imagine it's quite exposed. I'm up for it if you are?

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    mega_waster wrote..

    on (15/08/2008 22:36)

    Blanchland Moor eh? I don't know it. I have an OS map of the Consett area which I've been dying to make use of. I wonder if it'd be of use. I tried working out my own routes using the map but then I realised public footpaths aren't really for bikes due to all the fences and gates you come across. Also you have no right of way if you're not on foot. What do you know about the route? much climbing? Is it a loop? What kind of ground? Tell me more my dear boy.

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    mega_waster wrote..

    on (15/08/2008 17:22)

    oh, right. Yeah it is kind of dull doing the whole cycling thing. I prefer to be blasting around on the interesting stuff. I love those epic rides where there's as many downs as ups and plenty of skill required. Would like to check out Newcastleton in the near future. Let me know if you fancy it. I have a broken wheel with plenty of good spokes. You are welcome to one of them if you like, or are you taking it to a shop? You got owt planned riding wise?

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    mega_waster wrote..

    on (15/08/2008 16:54)

    What is there to do at Newburn like?

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    mega_waster wrote..

    on (14/08/2008 16:20)

    Hahaha! no i'm not stalking you. I work as a delivery driver and know the area quite well, plus my girlfriend and I used to ride east from Dunston to the millennium bridge and then head west up to the blaydon bridge and back to Dunston so I know the cycle route around there. We mostly do the river ride to Wylam and back or some times the derwent walk to consett and back, with a quick bast on some bumpy stuff at consett now that I have no bike rack to go further a field. Carl who started moredirt also has a similar shop type thing (rawoxygen). He actually sells fairly steadily so you never know it may well lead you to some where new. Do you work in design?

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    mega_waster wrote..

    on (14/08/2008 15:22)

    Oh really, do you use the river paths and then cross the river at the millennium bridge? You don't work in the Ouseburn area do you? I had a look at your site. You've got quite a logo thing going on there.

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    mega_waster wrote..

    on (13/08/2008 19:22)

    Alright mate. Thanks for the rating on my bike. Where in Gateshead do you live? I see we ride the same trails

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