Initially I wasn’t sure about getting into even vague details of my personal life here, but I feel like its important to write these thoughts down so that I can reflect on them in the future. Ultimately this blog is for me to record what i’ve been up to, and there is (beleive it or not!) something slightly more to life than sharing shiny bikes.

This year both Meg and I have been putting a lot of effort into making changes and prioritising our hapiness. This sort of sounds like a weird thing to say because surely prioritising our happiness is something we all do every day? Well sort of, but I feel like its very easy to live on autopilot… do the same things every day, get comfortable, get bored, and do nothing about it.

We’ve both started new jobs, which has been amazing. Her moving to work for a charity rather than a marketing agency, and myself saying goodbye for now to the world of £10,000 super ‘elite’ bicycles to work for a small (and super freindly!) local skateboard business whilst doing a bit of wheel building on the side. I’ve known the guys in the skate shop for over 10 years and It feels great to be down there. It’s sort of 16 year old me’s dream job and I couldnt pass it up.

Honestly i’m crap at taking risks and could see myself ending up being one of those people who spends forever in the same job and eats ham sandwiches every day. That horrifies me, and making a change has felt like an amazing rebalance of time and work/life balance, along with reminding myself that however risk averse we may be, change doesn’t carry many of the negatives we can come to expect. For the most part its short term inconvenience for longer term gain.

Another thing I touched on in an earlier post was trying to make time for things other than bikes. For me that main drive has been playing bass, (which im gradually getting a bit obsessed with) but also working mainly outside of the bike industry (albeit only for a week so far!) has felt like a breath of fresh air. At work I sell people kick ass skateboards, I come home, I play guitar, hang out with Meg, build a few wheels, and ride my bike. That feels like a pretty good balance to me.