I've been running a 4iiii single sided powermeter on my Sabbath road bike for a couple of years, I picked up the 4iiii second hand and really fitted it out of curiosity to see if it would benefit my training. The short answer was yes, although I'm not anywhere near the sort of cycling performance …
Continue reading Fitting a super cheap Chinese Powermeter – is the Geoid PM500 actually any good?
Yes the monthly update post is back now I'm actually doing enough riding to register on my Strava progress page.... First lets grab the stats: Total ridden - 320.63 km, On road - 224.37km, Off Road - 78.44, Zwift - 17.82km. So I'm pretty happy with that considering the almost total lack of biking action …
Sorry for the radio silence but it's been a difficult couple of months in the decliningcyclist multiverse. The stats are simple, across the last two months of 2025 I only rode a measly 127.78km all of which were indoors spread across 5 rides on Zwift. In my defence there were a couple of reasons for …
When this picture was taken around 2km from the top of the Category 1 rated Sa Calobra climb I could have described to you in great detail the interesting patterns the sweat dripping off my nose was making in salty swirls on the top tube and bar stem of my bike. I could detail how …
Continue reading Riding Mallorca Day 2 – Sa Calobra and other hills of pain
This was the end of season two day trip I'd been looking forward to for the last couple of months. Two days of riding on the Balearic island of Mallorca staying in the cycling hotspot of Port de Pollenca riding hired bikes I could never afford back home in the UK. Sun, cycling friendly roads, …
Bit of a mixed month last month, the total distance ridden at 444.68km was respectable but it didn't pan out quite the way I planned it. After managing almost 100km off road in August and starting to really feel on top of the Mountain Biking again in September I rode the MTB precisely once for …
Ok, so with the rather less than shiny new purchase clamped into the work stand it was time to assess exactly what I had here - was it the bargain of the century or a total disaster of a money pit which was going to cost me far to much to fix? The truth as …
It would seem I simply just can't help myself. Literally as soon as I've got a little bit of spare cash I'm straight on the internet looking for another 'bargain' buy that I just have to impulsively purchase straight away. You see after the great mountain bike swapathon a few months back when the dust …
Stats first because everyone loves a good statistic or two, last month I managed a total of 372.20km, of which 295.91km was outdoors and for the second month running this was all on road and mostly on the Sabbath. The remaining 76.29 km were racked up going nowhere fast sweating like an overheated pisshead in …
Five months of 2025 down and unsurprisingly seeing as the UK weather was pretty sunny last month May was my biggest riding month of the year, not because I managed a lot more riding days, but because when I did get out on the bike I was out for longer and rode further. As detailed …
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