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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 17h

Who needs a battery when you can do this? 😀

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s to prevent you from falling asleep and missing your stop!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We certainly did. Our family clan converged on the Chard area for the weekend and no regrets. Stunning countryside. Locals were also mega helpful as I needed to replace the car battery on arrival, late on a Friday afternoon 😱 👍

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“A tale of two beauties” - just answered my own question. Need to see if I can get a pass!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ooo…is there an easier 100k option? That would be good since I’m very out of shape at the minute.

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Hilly 100 was fun last year. Riding the Chilterns in Autumn is usually a lovely day out. 👍

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We are staying near Chard. First time in the area and what a beautiful part of the country. I need to bring the bike down here.

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

…to some impatient clown trying to overtake a cyclist on a blind bend?… 🤦‍♂️

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Woke up in #Somerset this morning. Wish I had access to a bike to explore the area, but a pre-breakfast walk wasn’t half bad.

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I see they are cracking-on with the new bridge over the railway at Milton too. Lots of significant changes underway.

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looking at you and thinking “Hmmm…lunch?” 😀

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My Panaracer GravelKing SKs in 43mm (not the Slicks!) have been pretty much “fit and forget”. I’d happily do an Audax on them, or take on some gravel. To the point where I need to check what condition my spare emergency tube is in, as haven’t needed one for quite a while.

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What a climb! Hope you aren’t too exhausted to enjoy the view at the top!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We did a dusk circuit of Wittenham Clumps this evening. Quite magical and thankfully no cows to dodge! #WittenhamClumps

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m looking at this and thinking: 1) This should be in the Cyclocross World championship course and 2) The bottom brackets will be wrecked!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That’s a form of torture, but it’s probably better than what’s on the telly!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Nice. You’ve earned your tea if you went up that! 😀

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Must have been an “easy” run as it’s all flat there? 😀 I must say that bike looks fantastic 👌 How do you keep the bags clean? 😀

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Did they invoke some sort of break clause? Sounds like a way to lose £££ unless they’ve got something more lucrative lined up!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Well you have effectively been up since yesterday. Why are you not asleep?…

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ouch! Bee or wasp? Ridgeway looking lovely!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I find the whole “ritual” of being herded through the airport/airline system to be rather soul-destroying. The only reason I put up with it is the “promise” of something interesting beyond the Arrivals gate. Hope you have/had a good flight.

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Grabbing some (eventual 😀) @wandrer.earth roads. #Didcot continues to grow, with houses being thrown up East, West and as here, North. Fields disappearing under brick and tarmac - it’s taking longer and longer to escape on the bike! 😀 #Cycling

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just saw your earlier post, so I’m guessing Hungerford.

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And bloody traffic lights!!! Where’s that viaduct?

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Spent the morning in the #Chilterns scooping some @wandrer.earth lanes and trails. I do like the Chilterns - it even matches the postboxes and berries to my bottles 😀 Got this year’s first proper soaking on the bike today too. But it’s very warm - still doesn’t feel like Autumn does it? #Cycling

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Different bike faff today - shoe-horning the Grizl in to a Vauxhall Corsa. Just needed the front wheel out so not too bad. 👍 Worth it otherwise no ride for me today. Busy busy busy! #Cycling

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

That’s very handy (and secure). My office has some sort of secure storage in the basement, but I’m too far away to make use of it.

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Let me guess - there’s a Strava segment for that circuit? 😀

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is my default view of other cyclists - welcome to the club! 😂

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Yeah but remember, you did get that new Fairlight!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I need to use that excuse when I get home late after adding some unplanned miles to my ride. To counter the inevitable “Where the hell have you been?” greeting 😀

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I have a similar pump - I think its a Turbo Morph G. Very happy with it and good to hear it should hopefully last! I do like the track pump style, plus the flexible valve hose - less stress on the valve. Can't see me ever going back to those teeny-tiny back-pocket road pumps!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

We went to a local food/family event yesterday. On the way we overtook a cyclist carrying his dog in a backpack! Just sayin'! Hope the court process goes the right way. 🤞

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

There was - something like “not today”! I dug out some more end caps and proceeded to screw-up squeezing them on to the end of the cable. Third time was the proverbial charm…

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And afterwards I needed to re-wrap the bar tape. Sucky sucky bar tape. Total chore but fumbled my way through it! 😀

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bike maintenance Monday. I needed to replace the front mech cable on the GT Grade. Good job I wasn’t relying on the end cap that Clarks provided with the cable! 😀 #Cycling

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Are you sure you hadn’t been breathing in some “fumes” from the other festival go-ers? 😂 🚬

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

That’s good going! I’ve had a fair bit of experience with tubeless now and usually end up with a mess on the garage floor! Agreed though, it’s not a massive job. Like a lot of bike maintenance it needs a bit of patience and doing things properly in the right order.

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Is the guy in the chair some sort of "umpire"? Maybe he's looking for some sort of illegal laying technique that's not in the rules? 😀

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yesterday most drivers were giving me a wide berth. Some of them a *really* wide berth - to the point that I was thinking if they go too far they'll put themselves in the ditch the other side of the road!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Fuelling strategy - I often get that wrong, including today. Started with the wrong breakfast, felt bloated which then didn’t encourage me to eat on the bike. Given that I started cycling because I like my food too much, it’s bloody annoying that I struggle to eat enough on the bike!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NGL that was hard. Haven’t cycled much lately, so 100km ➡️ / 900m ↗️ was a bit of a challenge. Blowingstone Hill up on to the Ridgeway wasn’t the lung-buster I feared it might be, but the other climbs gradually wore me down! ☕️ stops in Lambourn and Hampstead Norreys helped. #Cycling

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Good point! I'm sure Mr Fox has factored that in though!

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soxoncycler 🚲 🇬🇧 @soxoncycler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The sound of sadness... Hate it when the BB goes. Yes, 1500km sounds unreasonable to me. I'd expect that but from a cheap Halfords BB.

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