2025 nearly over
A reasonable year of activity, I beat my distance goal so I’m happy about that And a decent amount of climbing
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Another beautiful autumn day
Can’t stay at home when the weather is this good, even with the wind I had a good ride
Back from Sardinia
41 days travelling in our camper are over 🥲 It was a great trip and it also proved some choices are not as important as I thought they were.
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Audi Q4 e-tron real-world user review
I bought an Audi Q4 e-tron ( fully electric car) to replace my Land Rover Defender TD4 and VW T-roc The Q4 was great, all the mod-cons of which the matrix lights and virtual reality HUD are the best but I had a problem….. One morning it decided not to work. Nothing. Just able to…
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Today the bricklayers arrived and removed to 2 old windows want to be replaced want to be bricked up they then took all the old plaster off the walls and bricked up the window
Upstairs bathroom update
The outer shell is now built and just needs the window And it looks better than I was expecting 😀
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100,000 miles is the recommended interval which equates to 160,000 km. As I’m not sure that it was done when I bought the Defender with 78,000km I have decided to do it now (~100,000 km)
Back in Staffordshire
Brought my father back to the UK after a week spent with us in Belgium. We went back up to Staffordshire in the midlands to visit my elder brother and his family before returning to Eastbourne The driving was painfully slow going up to James and coming back down to Eastbourne. Just too much traffic…
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Washington DC on foot
18.42km. 98m ascent. 4h14 walk time DC is full of things to see and they are fairly well spaced out….. Our first job was to find 2 bike boxes to pack our bikes for the home journey. These we found at The Daily Rider who kindly gave us 2 with the original inside packaging material.…
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Fredericksburg-Washington DC
107.14km. 993m ascent. 5h25 ride time Not a great ride. Komoot basically routes up the old highway which is not to be recommended. I find Komoot good in Europe but less so here in the USA The best part of the route was actually here in DC where the city is super bike friendly and…
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