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OK, we all know the clichés quoted on social media: ‘find your dream job’, ‘love what you do and it never feels like work’, ‘live the dream, don’t dream the life’ and so on. The reality of working in the cycle industry is somewhat different once you get into the daily grind and even if you’re working in and around the very activity you love it’s the little things that start to grind your gears (excuse the pun). So many of us are drawn to the bike trade because of our passion for cycling and the to be part of the wider riding community, but we’re just like anybody else, it’s very easy to start slipping into bad habits and to skip opportunities to ride with your mates.
Here at Wheelbase Lake District we are incredibly blessed to have some of the very best UK mountain bike trails on our doorstep; so when we turn the lock and the shutters come down we do everything we can to encourage each other to down tools and ride, even if that means making the most of wet early Autumn evenings when the last of the sunlight all but plummets out of the sky. As long as these riding opportunities continue to come along and as long as we keep the stoke high within the team then we can legitimately say we are pretty close to ‘the dream job’.
Our resident landscape photographer and friendly Wheelbase staffer Andrew Barlow rounded up a small group of colleagues one evening after work and headed up to Angle Tarn, Patterdale in the Lake District, making the most of a damp but warm evening where low cloud and mist constantly shifted throughout the dramatic landscape.
All photos by Andrew Barlow
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