Cycle touring & endurance adventures

Long roads north,
and the slow work of getting there.

Notes from the saddle — loaded bikes on gravel and tarmac, weather that does what it likes, and the quiet hours between one horizon and the next.

Latest from the journal

·Møre og Romsdal, Norway ·312 km

First light on the Atlantic Road

Four days up the Norwegian coast with a loaded bike, a headwind that never once let up, and eight bridges that made all of it worth it.

What I carry

The kit list after six years of getting it wrong — what earns its weight on a long tour, and the three things I keep packing and never use.