Le Petit Brevet - where too much climbing is a thing

Le Petit Brevet is one of those rides that both entices and scares at the same time. I'm not getting any younger so when Scott Emmens announced he was going to organise it this year after a 3 year gap since the last one, I thought I better hop on board. The thing that you struggle...

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Compass Antelope Hill - short review - long ride

I have been using the Compass Antelope Hill tires for a few months now and gave them a seriously good testing a couple of weekends ago in Le Petit Brevet. There will be a post about that soon. Nominally 55 mm, but actually 53 mm wide on my rims. They are very similar to the...

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Boganduro-redux

Update 4: Boganduro Redux preliminary results. Strava does weird things, some people's results were completely omitted. Contact me if you see any mistakes. Wave 2 riders added. https://www.relive.cc/view/1931200601  Segment 1 UP ! Puketiro road 14:42 Nick Kennedy 15:53...

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K-Lite Ultra first impressions

A while back a buddy asked me about dynamo systems, as he had just signed up for the Japanese Odyssey rando/bike-packing event and was considering one. I'd been using an Exposure/SP dynamo kit after an impulse buy in the lead-in to the 2016 Tour Aotearoa, and I have been...

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Tour de Gravel - Marlborough - 2018

I only heard about the Tour de Gravel when chatting to local Paul Nicholls a few weeks before the event. It was in Blenheim so a good chance to catch up with my parents and Pew, the baby magpie  we found in the carpark at work, who was now living down south with my folks...

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Cousin Mosquito Lyrics

A short diversion from cycling related stuff to my favourite song. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyrics for the Song Cousin Mosquito By Liberian congresswoman Belinda Jackson Parker My friends. Lend me your ears I have a story to tell you About Mr mosquito Now when you are in the tropics Beware...

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Tour Aotearoa 2018

Cape Reinga - Te Rerenga Wairua Leaping place of the spirits Image:  Paul Nicholls On February the 28th 2018, the last group of riders set off in the Tour Aotearoa, leaving from Cape Reinga, at the tip of the North Island of New Zealand. 1 hour and 10 minutes later,...

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