Ok, we're not claiming to be experts here or anything - we've not gone head to head with Mark Beaumont round the world or just returned from a 5 year stint alongside Super Cycling Man or anything. No. We just did our first bike packing adventure along the south coast of England, which is pretty tame, I admit. But we did learn a few things along the way, useful tips for genteel explorers cycling a few hundred miles to visit family and camping along the way, sort of thing.
Read MoreSustrans Man - the Cycling Warrior
It’s a brisk and chilly March morning but that doesn’t deter Crispin. The cold has never bothered him and he slings on his rucksack over his Sustrans T-shirt, pauses to wipe a smear from his John Lennon glasses and mounts the faithful Brompton. Crispin loves the fact that his company vehicle is a Brompton and he’s adorned it with various cycling stickers like ‘Cycologist’, ‘Burn Fat, Not Oil’, and his favourite, ‘Life Behind Bars’ with a picture of some drop handlebars.
Read MoreSomerset Cycling Mini-Break
We all like following the same cycle routes and trying to better our PBs on Strava, but there's nothing better than getting out into unfamiliar countryside and expanding our cycling comfort zone.
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