it's the magic number

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I've been pretty rubbish at updating this blog, something that will improve as I get to spend even two consectutive moments working on this project. Truth is that although The Bicycle Academy occupies my mind most of every day, I currently have a 9-5 and run two other projects ( P3 The Black Canon Collective and P4 The Cobble Wobble ) both of which are very dear to me and need most of my tme outside of work. But that's cool, it's these three projects that make me tick, and no matter how excited I am about The Bicycle Academy right now I want to not only keep the other two going strong, but to grow them further.

P5* (The Bicycle Academy) is at that stage where it's so exciting and so new that I'm scared by it, scared that I'll brake it or fail to make it into what it is capable of becoming. It's the same with any project that I care about though, and is perfectly healthy. I think once I get over this phase of nervous fear you'll see some real progress and bofore long will be able to get involved too.

I'm not creating this as a fad or for the sake of it, I'm creating it because I really beleive in it and feel that it could be something amazing... it's just that by saying that out loud so that other people hear, well that puts the pressure on.

I've never set up a company before, don't really know anything about Social Enterprises, am a Crowd Funding virgin and still don't have a workshop space...oh and I've never built a bicycle frame before. I'm not sure that these things matter though, because I'm going to give The Bicycle Academy all that I can, and will do my very best to make it work.

I've taken 11 days holdiday to focus on riding and also so that I can work on this project uninterupted for a few days consecutively, to get into the stuff that needs more than I can give at the moment. I'm pretty excited. Think I'm getting over my fear, hell I've written 3 blog posts tonight!

So please bare with me, I'm almost there...

*P1 and P2 are no longer active, but they were fun and are looked back upon fondly.