I wouldn't expect lights to come as standard on a bike I was buying. But I wouldn't buy a bike without also buying some accessories and lights would definitely be one of them. You'd kind of hope a bike that you won would be ready to ride. And at this time of year lights are necessary: if I want to ride it home I'll have to do so before 4pm.

I was wondering what your opinion of it would be, since you're the most serious mountain bike rider I know :) Clearly it's a pretty entry-level bike, but it does look like it might actually be a real mountain bike (iyswim) rather than just a toy bike.

I don't really need a new bike: my own is only a couple of years old and in good nick and more appropriate for commuting and a slightly higher price-band bike anyway. But it is quite tempting to hang on to it and give some off-road stuff some more of a go. We had fun on the hybrids round Thetford forest but they definitely had their limitations: notably being too *long*.

I only discovered GHWT because I was looking up rock band on amazon: I was intending to get that but I realised the guitars aren't compatible. It's a complete arse that you can't just buy another guitar hero compatible guitar on its own though. Dammit I want to play 2-player!