Saturday 14 August 2021
Beautiful day for big cols but August weekend means lots of tourist traffic up there. 105km in the foothills instead!
Wednesday 11 August 2021
Insert obligatory beer... erm... banana shot! 
Today's perfection at Hautacam & Col du Tramessel. Cheers!? 
Thursday 29 July 2021
Smashed my PR up East side of the Tourmalet. Loving 25-30C temps so pretty Aussie still - locals hate this 'heat'!
Thursday 22 July 2021
Ride to Atlantic & back via some, erm, interesting 'roads'! It ain't Sydney 
But then again - it ain't Sydney 
Tuesday 20 July 2021
Today's ride: little recovery spin in more rolling terrain... with 20% pinches thrown in because... Basque region!
Monday 19 July 2021
Today's ride: Basque Epic from St-Jean-Pied-de-Port. Brutal gradients. Beautiful scenery. To Spanish border & back.
Saturday 26 June 2021
Sublime Col d'Aspin today: PR the climb, home in time for stage 1 of le Tour, beer & delicious lunch. Life is good
Saturday 8 May 2021
Riding past snowdrifts in full summer kit: what a day! Personal best time for Tourmalet West too #FasterWithAge
Thursday 15 April 2021
What a morning for a ride. Stunning up at Gazost. Sealed road in this valley ends 9.9km from home, which is handy!
Monday 5 April 2021
Lucky to say endless awesome parcours within 10km of home. This spot only 2.5km for example. Yes, v.lucky! #StaySafe
Thursday 25 March 2021
Today's ride: Above the clouds in glorious sunshine. Col d'Aspin. Sublime.
Tuesday 23 February 2021
Mates teasing me about lack of MTB action, so here you go: Bike. Dirt. Mountains! Just another day in paradise
Tuesday 16 February 2021
Well slap my thigh! Col d'Aspin... on Feb 16... in shorts! Set a PR too so double awesome! Happy days!
Sunday 24 January 2021
Temporary shelving setup in the garage for training. Strangely motivational... hmmmmmmm...
Thursday 7 January 2021
Today's ride: found a deer trapped by wire fence so helped it escape & run off hopefully unscathed. PS: was nippy!
Thursday 3 December 2020
Today's ride: Beautiful trundle through autumn colours, inc. this section of forest dirt. Yes planned, not lost! 
Wednesday 30 September 2020
Today's ride: Cols Ichere & Lie. No big climbs as taking it easy. Not that several km of almost 10% is *that* easy
Tuesday 29 September 2020
Today's ride: Short but sweet. Overlooking the Baretous valley & later getting stuck in animal traffic. Baaaaaa!
Wednesday 16 September 2020
Today's ride: rolling along a supply branch of the Canal du Midi. And up to a random castle... because... why not?
Tuesday 15 September 2020
Today's ride: Lac de Saint Ferreol. Beautiful area I think is bit like a mini Black Forest - sadly minus beer/cake
Saturday 12 September 2020
Today's ride: just a little local spin in the foothills. What a day for it though!
Sunday 30 August 2020
Look who finally joined me up the Aspin, yay! Crazy weather for end of August but only slightly damp so no probs
Wednesday 19 August 2020
Today's ride: Erm... where's the mountains & what's this blue stuff? Cruising between beaches on the Medoc coast.
Friday 31 July 2020
Today's ride: what's wrong with this picture? Answer: not much! Beautiful spin even if a little 'lost' at times
Tuesday 7 July 2020
On today's ride: little bridge crossing the River Ousse. Still so many little gems like this to discover near home
Monday 29 June 2020
Today's ride: Back on cliffs above Saint-Cirq-Lapopie because... why not? Few drops of rain a welcome refreshment!
Thursday 25 June 2020
Second ride of the day: short cool down with Pratiwi, who also tried #HaySurfing for the first time Not bad!
Thursday 25 June 2020
Beautiful sunrise ride to avoid forecast heat. Rolling hills & shady forests actually made for perfect conditions
Saturday 6 June 2020
Today's ride: Dodging cattle normally no big deal but when herd has young & giant bull present some care required!
Monday 1 June 2020
Beaut Baronnies ride this morning. Road in the background is typical of the area: nothing straight & nothing flat!
Friday 29 May 2020
Beautiful day up top Felt knackered when leaving home but much better after this. Wish it was always the way!
Tuesday 19 May 2020
Glorious day to ride the Col d'Aspin. Not much traffic but loads of riders out... and cattle... Moo! :)
Saturday 4 April 2020
Guess there are worse places to be forced to ride a trainer Easy spin in the sunshine, perfect conditions
Thursday 2 April 2020
Not quite my normal view from a bike But... thanks to FFC & Kinomap just took a spin up Col de la Colombiere
Sunday 15 March 2020
Our w/e trip to Lisbon cancelled for obvs reasons However, there are worse places to be stuck #SelfIsolation
Monday 24 February 2020
Another amazing day for a ride. Jan/Feb this year been rubbish skiing but awesome on the bike! Swings/roundabouts
Thursday 20 February 2020
Today's ride: stunning day for a tour of the Val de Gave. Plus some climbing up the sides, inc Ortiac for these pics.
Sunday 2 February 2020
Today's ride: Hourquette d'Ancizan & Col d'Aspin. In the middle of winter. In shorts (you can't see) Ridiculous!
Wednesday 8 January 2020
Today's ride: Bit of an explore out West. Beautiful sunshine all ride. So quite. Should come this way more often!
Wednesday 25 December 2019
What. A. Day! 4 hour ride should just about make room for dinner. Happy holidays everyone!
Friday 6 December 2019
What. A. Day!!!! Couple of ski days in the legs this week but they seemed to go OK - bonus!
Tuesday 26 November 2019
At last - cycling in Sunshine! Stunning autumn colours have been hiding most of the month but today all was forgiven.
Tuesday 29 October 2019
Tonne up North to Lac du Gabas. Could be last sunshine for a long time but what a day to end our endless summer!
Thursday 17 October 2019
See what happens when you say, "pretty please" Perfect conditions for an arvo ride. And post ride refreshments!
Sunday 13 October 2019
October Tourmalet in full summer kit. Amazing conditions but think that's last of the year. Now bring on the snow!
Tuesday 8 October 2019
Crossing a surprisingly clear river Rhine on today's ride... where the Swiss/German border was also crossed 5 times!
Tuesday 1 October 2019
Today's ride: lovely sunny loop from Chiemsee round by Reit im Winkl & return. Felt flat as a pancake!
Sunday 29 September 2019
Morning tootle on the bike. Austrian valleys, lakes, churches & castles under brilliant blue skies. Beautiful stuff.
Friday 27 September 2019
Stunning scenery & brutal gradients. Passes Falzarego, Valparola, Falzarego - again - & Giau. Utter perfection.
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Afternoon ride: Passo Valparola... as you can never ride too many epic passes in a day (before it starts to rain)!
