Starting Mombee Snowboards
Back in November 2015 we collected a plank of raw seasoned British Ash. Two months later we had the first Mombee snowboard and we were...
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Rapha Winter Gloves – First impressions
For Christmas 2014 I was given a pair of Rapha Winter Gloves, but they were a size Large, which was just a little too snug...
Polar M400 Review – First impressions
Having been frustrated by the short-lived experience with the Garmin Fenix, I started looking around for alternatives. Garmin’s Vivoactive was ticking all of the right...
Triathlon round-up of 2015
So the intention to do the 2016 Wimbleball 70.3 Ironman was set back in August 2015 and I spent the last few months of the...
Garmin Fenix 2 – Quick feedback
In my experience, of friends who have used them, Garmin devices are either absolutely fantastic or immensely frustrating. When they work, they do an excellent...
Glueing the core
Preparing the ash strips for the core (in part 1 of the build) was time-consuming and wasn’t the quantum leap forward in the snowboard build...
Starting the snowboard build
So… we’re making a snowboard… to coin a well-used phrase “How hard can that be”… We definitely have the skills here at Mombee, so we...
Food tip 2 – Add chilli to your diet!
Chilli is great for adding taste to food and if you start to think of it as the savoury equivalent to sugar, you can start...
Food Tip 1 – My Fitness Pal
Tip 1 – The first thing I did last year was to use the “My Fitness Pal” smartphone app to help me track exactly what I...
Main meal recipe – smoked haddock and spinach gratin
Finding good and tasty low-calorie meals can be challenging… more so when you’re pushed for time to prepare things… and even more so when you’re...