So you can all follow Allan on his 4000+km ride home from the Arctic, as discussed in earlier posts he’ll be bringing a tracking system. This is now live (although the ride won’t start until[…]
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Category: Bike
Nordkapp – Preparing to Leave…
Things are getting near now to the start. Lancet (my bike) left KMB Towers on Thursday and was expected to take 4 business days to arrive in northern Norway. With Norway not being fully in[…]
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Nordkapp – A 4000+km Ride Home
tarting on Saturday 4th May 2019, Allan, is going on his latest adventure. Setting off from Nordkapp…
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The Beast from the East?
So, we are “suffering” a snow storm which the press has named the “Beast from the East”. I woke up this morning and looked out to see everything white and couldn’t even see across the[…]
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A Little RLI2Paris Data
Been rattling through the stats from my Lan2Paris ride, some interesting. Changed the front derailleur a total of 199 times, and the rear 4666 times, resulting in 29% Di2 battery used (which includes all the[…]
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The Final Push!
And so the final push, little sleep really due to the ferry but think I made a couple of hours. Finally on French soil and what a cycle path. It’s basically an old railway line,[…]
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The Monday “Plan”
So Monday. I had a plan, a good lie in. Did that. A good breakfast did that. A bit of maintenance Monday to keep everything bike related nice and happy, done that. All nice and[…]
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Messy Day
A messy day today. The “original plan”, dreamed up last night, was to wake up super early and blast (yes that might be also a slight issue when riding the bicycle equivalent of a super[…]
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Odd Day.
All started well, was making pretty good time and even planning how much further I could push things and maybe eat a bit out of tomorrow’s ride. By the time I got through Rugby I[…]
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Hills, Horses, and Garmin Gremlins.
Early morning ride to make up for yesterday. In the Keswick Bikes green jersey this morning, not quite the sprinters jersey but hoping that it will help make up plenty of time! With the disastrous[…]
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