Rog and I are both 41. We met at school - Bromsgrove, an old, posh Public school in our home town. When we first left our respective homes we shared a house together, that was when we were twenty. We have stayed in touch almost all of the time since then.

I have worked in IT for the last fifteen years or so having previously been in sales. My last job was as a project manager for English Heritage and it was pretty well paid but I quit to try bikes4rent and other things. I am now working as a part time postman to keep a little money coming in.

Rog worked for many years in his family engineering business as a quality control manager. He had enough of that some years ago and has been doing various things since. He''ll probably fill in more detail on this later.

We have both earned good money and managed to waste it (well, we had fun so was it a waste? you decide)all so we are doing bikes4rent with very little money

You may also hear the name Emma, she is my partner - an Archeologist.

The three of us share a house. We have two black cats called Fats & Domino.

Andy will come into the story at some point, he''s a friend and a great mechanic. He''s in Australia but due back in a month or so.