Chocolate Log

It turns out that some of us have lives when we are not wasting our time in chat rooms and we could be out riding. This feature is an attempt to get you uncomfortably close to the people behind the pixels.

Lady and gentleman, meet the CF wordsmith RODDERZ.

Q: Your FULL name:

'Roderick Antoni Powolny'

Q. Why the chosen login name?

'At my previous employer, they could not be bothered to say Roderick, so they got much amusement out of calling m Rodders. Then I chaged the S to Z cos I cnat type.'

Q: Its my round, what can I get you?

'Duchy’s Summer Ale'

Q: How do you pay for your nasty bike habit?

'Dunno. Things just appear at my after I click in www.chainreactioncycles.com . black magic'

Q: If you had a daughter, WHICH forum member would you leave to look
after her for the weekend and take her swimming whilst you hit up the trails?

'No one. Cos if I have kids. They are coming to the trails.'

Q: If you had a daughter, WHO IS THE LAST forum member would you leave to look after her for the weekend and take her swimming whilst you hit up the trails?

'Me! Cos I would urge them to ride those trails, I don’t care if they are scared…! Jjust ride it. And if they didn’t, I would push them down.'

Q: Is Hora a cunt?

'In general I would say he is just thoughtless… I don’t think he does stuff to make people worse off. I used to find it funny until the incident where some one had landed on his head and he sacked them off.'

Q: Have you ever paid for sex?

'Don’t we all?'

Q: Riding snack of choice?

'Cold Bacon sandwich… mmmmm'

Q: You have caught the Aids and can only ride 3 UK spots again before you die.
Your top 3 please:

'1. Scousers! Legendary track, only ever rode it on a hardtail. Doesn’t exist any more which makes it better cos te FC took it down, as ramblers were getting run over as it corssed to footpaths. Also known as Nannerch. The day I did it was a mission, driving from Swindon to Sheffield for a meeting in the morning, driving from Sheffield to Nannerch, then riding for 5 hours, then back from Nannerch to Sheffield. 500 mile round trip or something like that (free ride mileage) hail, rain, cold, sun. It used to be here

2. Fake Plastic trees in Aberdeen, out the west of Aberdeen! I sound like an old man, but those were the halcyon days on Satruday morning, riding there, then riding these trails, when we were 15. girls weren’t importna,t. I had a steel GT Tequsta. That’s where it all started. Trails were swooping, not tech. just FUN. Used to come home super hungry. This is the spot

3. Wharncliffe & Sheffield & Bolehills…. The place rocks… I could put a multi map. But its near Sheffield. the place is an experience. the trails rock, even the first one on the right near the fire road, especially the hidden step down line…. The city is great, music is good, its got atmosphere, people are nice and the people love mountain biking. They have some of the greatest trails in the UK. The BMX tracks are fun. The girls are good looking. Can talk to strangers and not worry about them calling the men in the white coats. The tracks are great, they are original, have great jumps in them, tech, fun. Its also where the gap tooth fairy rides.'

Q: Which living person do you most despise and why?

'Can I change this to a place? Cos if so its Esher, not cos of the trails, but I reckon the atmosphere and attitude. Maybe its just too southern for me. But its not cool. Plus I get bored, not cos I can do everything but I like the scenery to change. Plenty of MILF in ski place'

Q: How many bikes do you own?

'Specialixed FSR – black – ‘99-‘00
Giant Peloton Road Bike – ‘97
GT LTS 3000 - ‘96
Cinelli Unica, - ‘01
Redline Proline Pro 20”
Dialled Holeshot
Trek Session 7'

Q: You hit a Badger on a fast descent, it is seriously injured and
makes a disturbing noise like a wining baby not usually associated
with animals. Do you:
a. Leave the fucker. You spent all day driving to get there and you not letting it spoil your day.
b. Remove your seat post and smite the beast as you don't want to see it suffer.
c. Gather the badger up in you arms and let it drink from your camel pack whilst you escort it to the vet, you can always ride another day.
d. If other... please explain:

'c. easily! I thought I had run over a pair of wood pigeons last nigt and went back to see if they wer ok. fortunately they were flying'

Q: The worst biking injury so date, any pics?

'Probably the concussion I had, a week before my finals for uni. When I did this step down and landed on my head from 6ft.! I drove to hospital. I remember 2 seconds of the drive. When I went to pick up the car I couldn’t remember where it was. Or at this bmx track where I landed on my back and ripped the skin off my back. I used to have to go home at lunch time to have dressings changed as the puss would seep through my shirt'

Q: Do you have a phobia you would like to share?

'Avalnaches. When I am back country, I am listening for every sound. I had a small one this year, it was terrifying… It was tiny, but some snow slabed as I skied around a ridge from one couloir to another in Canada. I landed on my ares.

The other one is failure, though I am beomcing resigned to it these days.'

Q: We all let our high standards slip on occasions so on the scale of 1 (mingin) - 10 (fit) what's the ugliest girl/boy you have ever slept with?

'This girl at uni, 2. I didn’t even manage to sleep with her cos she wanted it to be a relationship first.. she liked cycling '

Q: Tell us a secret?

'I get really angry! some people have perception that I am really relaxed. Also I hate bad manners and parents who lets their kids play the PSP or DS at the dinner table in a restaurant! Those kids should be conversing, or running around or something… even though that may get them in to trouble parents use the PSP or DS as a way to shut the kids up. Get them on a bike, or running or something, where they can misbehave…'

NB. Spelling has been left as sent by Rodderz.