Mud Welcome to my website - full of guff, one sided chat, and t-shirt sales!

Workshopmanualman is an oldish bloke who has ridden the trails around Colley Hill to Box Hill and beyond pretty much every Sunday since 1993. I've had this little website up and running for some years now, and like to share my trail experiences... whilst at the same time trying to punt out a few original home-grown t-shirts. I do go off-piste with my blog now and then, and I'm not happy with boringly accurate descriptions of every metre of my rides, so I'll rarely do route descriptions. However, having said this I do sometimes attach a sat-nav to my bike and have tried to catalogue the major circular routes around the Reigate area - so my bike routes now has a link to a specific web page dedicated to providing Google map views.

Sales Diary Routes Belgium Reviews


The t-shirts? Just a bit of fun. They are hand drawn and hand printed here in the UK, and I sell them at cost price. Actually that is a lie; I sell them at below cost price as I do freepost for UK and European sales. Quite honestly it is brilliant seeing them out and about, so I'm happy to take the hit on postage. My t-shirts have gone all over the world, which isn't bad for things drawn over coffee in a Starbucks now is it? At the moment I have a few based around the Type 2 Volkswagen Camper [the split-screen variant or "Splittie"], the single Surrey Hills mountain biking one, plus the infamous "Bike is a Bike is a Bike" version. They all come in a range of colours, are hard wearing and stunning on! Indeed my t-shirts look better as they age, and would be ideal combined with the current crop of lumberjack style shirts.

Please note that my t-shirt web site accessed via "Sales" above is now fully live and web secure. Just click on the link and you're there!

The Belgium thing? Well we've spent 3 or 4 months there over the past few years and have ridden quite a bit of the Ardennen. It's a bit like mid-Wales, underrated and quite lovely. They have some massive enduro style mountain bike races there, most towns are MTB friendly and the food is better than the UK. Oh, and so is accommodation. What are you waiting for? Naturally for 2011 we're going to Barmouth in Wales, and the rather dangerous looking riding centre in Daun, Germany!

My reviews are small, independent affairs. Obviously stuff that I've used over the years. Note that so far Porsche GB have not played ball in loaning me a Panamera GT to test. Tut tut; do you want to sell cars or what?

Many thanks,

Ifor Jenkins