Audax
In my spare time, I quite like to ride audax - long distance, against the clock, but not really competitive.
Simultaneously cheap, inclusive, accessible, and as challenging as want it to be (or can imagine).
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11 February 2012
IQ Cyo headlight
This is the bike light that revolutionized night time riding for me.
Dynamo or battery driven, its winning combination of (relative) cheapness, light weight, reliability, and lumens on the road make this a real star.
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9 November 2011
PBP via Tweet
Paris-Brest-Paris, the pinnacle of amateur cyclesport, boiled down into forty-four text messages of at most 144 characters each. High points in green, low points in red.
Now this is a ride report that isn’t too hard to get stuck into! 
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22 September 2011
PBP: Going Faster
There are four years and myriad assumptions involved in getting to PBP 2015, but I’d like to think I’ll be back and angling for a much faster ride.
At times the only thing that kept me going was the surety that the only thing worse than what I was enduring would be to fail to endure it!
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16 August 2011
Paris-Brest-Paris: Kitlist
The following is an account of the stuff I took to Paris-Brest-Paris 2011, what went wrong, what went right, and general musing.
Originally I wrote this as a thought process for myself, but for the benefit of posterity I thought I’d publish it (and hey, 2015 will come around sooner than any of us expect!)
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6 June 2011
Edinburgh-Preston-Edinburgh 600
The first opportunity to close off qualification for Paris-Brest-Paris. The simplest route sheet in all of Audax. 600km.
A large field of 37 riders assembled on a typically sharp and windy Edinburgh morning for what would turn out to be an epic ride – just 28 would go on to finish….