What a weekend all on the x1 gravel Tempest (with road tyres) fully loaded 450km covered (with tracks included!) Door to door - was a tad pooped at the end but feel alive 🚴 Riding across the top of the Normandy beaches in a thunderstorm was not on the game plan but made for 💯 % character building!

Status update 160km ✔️ Bike mine fully functional Sons - inner ring has exploded - so rode 45 miles on big ring - & he cleared some bonkers 11% inclines

Today is the day …. Later Portsmouth … 🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴🚴 8 go to France 🇫🇷

Thanks to Mavic - new logos have now been applied … no bike this weekend - upset Tummy… I shall say no more on that topic

Office music mix playing …. Ooo a Classic Bon Jovi / Living on a prayer…. Oh I remember when that slippery when wet album was first realised / some of the staff here - no idea 🤷‍♂️

Question What would fellow cyclists take with them for a 4 day mini tour ?? With the need for ‘non cycling clothes’ for a meal on a Saturday night My Carridice super c saddle bag simply isn’t big enough - So using the Nelson longflap in closed position

Hope Mavic.com will help and send out some new wheel stickers for my brand new AllRoad wheels - fit tyres and the stickers were so easily wrecked and removed by the tyre leavers

Counting down the days

@galibiervelo.bsky.social Simply suburb customer service 🌟 Packages within a well packed bag - everything looked after / neat bags within bags - & a lovely ’extra’ 👍🏼

@soxoncycler.bsky.social Road setup - still need to change the bars to my Ritchey Comp Ergomax handlebar and brooks cadmium bar tape

It’s arrived ….

A large carbon box has arrived 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪 Unpacking and building will commence @ 17:31 ….. Standard as it comes build tonight - then I’ll adjust that build tomorrow re my personal modifications

Anyone have any experience with FURDECO I have a feeling a 4 working day timeframe will be 2 weeks !! Just a gut feeling….

A couple of the key components for your build are part of a current shipment that’s taking a little longer than originally scheduled due to delays within the wider logistics network. Our suppliers are still confirming their revised delivery window,

Migraine weekend tick V.Low light needed !

Thanks ITV / ruin a good show - lunchtime … Black Sails …. Fine show … every 15 mins - 4 adverts !!!

So after an interesting lunchbreak ChatGPT has suggested for my upcoming 455km Normandy tour to take the incoming Ti x1 12speed on gator hardshells 32mm (as I have a set only reason and not say 4-seasons that I have on the road bike) The alternative was my Road Ti with campag 2x 12 speed on 28mm

What should one feel … C2W voucher gone in / work all sorted - bike ordered - have build date - it’s like watching paint dry waiting :) Now same bike is in a sale £300 off !!! Go figure 🤬🤪🤬

Mg4 original Trophy… rear top spoiler has ‘impact’ ⚡️

Oooo the Build date on new Gravel bike has arrived in my inbox ….

Seen this tonight - great film - tragic story - but portrayed beautifully youtu.be/VkBLV8YhX1U?...

I’m not a betting man - sometimes wish I was / but come on what’s the betting that some or most water companies will have a hose pipe ban in the summer - Despite all this wet stuff flooding roads drains and fields currently

Also crazy number of Fixies out on today’s Audax - kudos to each of them - blew my mind how they decend - legs going 1000 revolutions per second almost … Could have done with being on the gravel Bike in Audax mode - roads where yuck yuck yuck and rutty …. None the less the 4seasons did well 🚴👍🏼

Bike cleaning duties will have to wait / but it’s Ti - so I could leave to just brush off the dirt haha

Sleep deprivation is a nightmare, especially when you feel powerless to stop the interruptions: #Waymo #AutonomousVehicles youtu.be/Xvs0K1LG1ac

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Sunday / managed to get out so #26 kicked off finally / two pics of the many rivers I crossed 🚴✔️👍🏼

Lunchtime was spent messing with RidewithGPS - always wanted to map out a trip down and around the IOW & yes the ferries are not included in the distance mapped …. I guess next is to work out the timings for each ‘leg’ lol

Fingers crossed I actually get a Bike ride in this weekend What with the crazy Weather recently and home life balance - rebalancing - has meant no cycling since 30th Dec …. Here’s a pic of that ride - lovely church of St Giles Imber

So end of month is my next #Audax - Windrush Winter Warm-up 100km Starting in Ashton Keynes, Cirencester …. Anyone ridden this ?? Hoping muscle memory will kick in as current I’ve not ridden a bike since last year 🙃🚴

“Journeys are safer & smoother when we all work together” Lovely common sense road rules ad from Wokingham Borough Council.

No biking today … Well bike cleaning duties … so yeah biking Sunday

Tale of two Beauties Audax / took over 20 mins off last years efforts & I was on the heavier set steelie x1 So win win chicken dinner happy with that …

If you know you know if you appreciate you appreciate 👍🏼 Today’s wfh music …. John Denver Essentials on Apple Music Country

It’s just a 100 .. but I can’t decide if it’s thermal longs or just still bibs & long leg warmers .. lol #audax @audaxuk.bsky.social

@owenaudax.bsky.social an @audaxuk.bsky.social Q. Single speeds 46tooth : 18 rear ? Gear inches of 69 ?? Or a 46t : 20t - 62 inch Considering a fixie / single speed My options are easy spin and comfortable on 10% climbs My steelie x1 is 46t but with an 11/42 cassette hence the question

It’s finally here … 4 new boots day for the satsuma… Means one thing … I’m keeping it for at least another 40k Seems daft to move it on .. part ex will be stupid .. & frankly it does all I need it too do … So Here’s a slightly Frankenstein Halloween 🎃 pic of it …

If anyone of my followers who are iPhone users are in the vicinity of this … it’s my AirTag … instructions for its return will be broadcast apparently 😀🚴👍🏼

So that’s a few 100’s factored for the new season… Now any 200’s in my area / need to add the green 500 to my badge collection - only a few from the B2000 - so that’s within easy reach now too - then onto the B3000 - these badges are addictive!! #audax #cycling @audaxuk.bsky.social

WFH - so music for the day #Queen Bless Freddie - almost 35 years since his untimely death … I have great memories of being 150m from stage at Knebworth in ‘86 - his last EVER live performance… www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSrF...

Oh boy - I’ve started mapping out the 2026 mini Normandy tour by bike (obviously) .. my eldest son is keen to ride it with me / I yet to have a house pass I suspect many many many brownie points will need to be scored - along with juggling time re Audax’s so could be an interesting period of time

It once was a gravel … now it’s a morphed steelie x1 for winter local rides & Winter Audax 32mm Marathons with a 46tooth Oval front chain ring 🚴👍🏼

Don’t shoot me but what’s the harm in running a 2x ring as a 1x Or should I just buy a 1x oval 46th for the steelie that I’m converting - it has a 42th oval at present and I spin out on the roads .. hence the 46 … like oval re the feel on the x1

Anyone signed up for Gridiron this weekend?

Hoping for some fair weather this Sunday #audax #timeismiles @audaxuk.bsky.social

Anyone doing CCP Time is Miles #audax @audaxuk.bsky.social www.audax.uk/event-detail...

Hoping the weather gods let Sunday be tolerable… Just a short 107km Onshore for me / others are doing the 200…. Didn’t fancy the IoW this time … 🚴👍🏼 @audaxuk.bsky.social

So my next #Audax looks interesting… with plenty of ups and downs …. 🚴👍🏼 @audaxuk.bsky.social

Anyone riding Saturdays Mendips Classic long ??? If so / might see you there … 🚴👍🏼

Am I the only one that thinks the cheaper Sciroccos look ‘more’ expensive than the actual Zondas that are £££ lots more than the Sciroccos Bike set up with the Sciroccos for autumn use - will probably be putting the Zondas back on for next weekend’s mendips … but leaving the raceblades on