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It was a stormy winter weekend in the north western parts of Jutland. Gusts up to 38m/s made the waves huge and enabled you to lean 45 degrees into the wind. Epic fun. The north sea showed itself from its darkest side. The pictures just doesn’t give the storm justice, but Mette and I were still able to find sand everywhere (and I do mean everywhere) the following day…

We practiced the great fun art of dune-rolling, which I’ve tried to capture here:

After yesterdays christmas party I found it an excellent day to hit the tarmac instead of the gravel. The wind was strong, the hangovers stronger - so I managed to do 30kms in 5 quarters… Hmm… I’m glad it’s still only december

Having been at home under the blankets since wednesday, I’ve had some time to browse the web. I’m strongly considering to build myself a play-bike / longtravel enduro bike-ish thing. Not fancy or anything, but fun and something I can give a paintjob on my own and otherwise give a beating. 140-160mms of suspension, short stem, broad low-rizer bar, 20mm through-axle on the front, and some fairly laidback angles for playing time, down-hill and some north-shore. The only problem is, that there are heaps of such bikes to choose from:

Turner 5spot, Pronghorn PR6-LT, Yeti 575, Cannondale Rize, Cannondale Prophet, Lapierre Zesty, and the Specialized Enduro… I love the Cannondales, but they are rare as second hand and often quite expensive, the Pronghorn is only around 58cms in the top-tube thus it’s rather short for me, the Yeti and the Turner are somewhat rare as well, and the Lapierre is dirt cheap. Tricky tricky… So, help me out guys :)

Tuesday night we all got assembled for lamp-construction-night. Froberg has been experimenting quite a bit with homemade helmet lights with those clever diodes and all. So he had purchased all the bits and pieces, set a date and we just showed up with dremel tools and soldering irons - ready to kick in.

I already have my beloved Silva 585 lamp, but I have been looking for something to put on my handlebars for road cycling, as well as to have a backup lamp in case I have visitors who needs to borrow, or whatever.
The lamp set me back around 600DKK which is a lot less than the Silva. It’s not that good looking, but the function is excellent. I have to give it a paintjob though - “lamp parade style”.

Aaboe has posted some great pictures of the process here.

I was refuelling my beloved Toyota today in Billund, where I noticed this sign on the fuel-filler-station… Is it just me, or…