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Ride upgrades

( General )

The Planet X superlight pro carbon has had a number of upgrades to be ready for the Etape in 3 weeks. I fitted the last upgrade over the weekend and tested it out by riding 72 miles to Holbeach in Linconshire (not exactly hilly!)
Anyway, a run down of the changes:
1. Saddle upgraded to SKN [...]

Norwich 100…

( General )

After the Chilterns I was sore.  I had a pretty good recovery week, riding a gentle 80 miles over five days; ready for the Norwich 100 on Sunday.
The weather forecast was randomly changing all week and it was obvious that we were going to get wet, it was just a question of how much!  I [...]

The Chiltern [hot] 100

So, there’s a lot of things I should do on a regular basis and apologising for not writing updates on here is one of them!
Sunday (June 7th) was my full dress rehearsal for the Etape, the Chiltern 100.  As it was at the end of half-term it fell nicely with us returning from Somerset and [...]