I do love a good pair of jeans. Unlike fashion designer Wayne Hemingway, who reckoned that no man over 35 should wear blue denim jeans, I like the durability and the look of them and I’m going to keep wearing them, so there.
There are times when there are parallels between jeans and mountain bikes. Straight back from the shop, brand new, there’s the first use – where you expect people to stop you in the street and say