Phil Sturgeon

Bosnia was wild. It was first wild camp since the Slovakian mosquito/bivy failure, and it was the most remote, spidery, beautiful, broken…

It’s not my first time in Serbia, but this was a fantastic experience. I set off from the Hungarian side of the border after having…

This fundraiser managed to get 100,000 trees in the ground in 2019. In 2020 things are far worse, so we’re going bigger. I have started a…

Since the madness in Slovakia I’ve gone a bit quiet on the place-based blogging. I’ve moaned about how bad the Garmin Vector 3 pedals are…

Tubeless in cyclocross and mountain biking these days is pretty much the default, but going tubeless for road is a long frustrating drive on…

When you spend $900 on some fancy power pedals, you kinda hope the hardware won’t literally fall apart while the software bugs out every few…

The last stop in my Czech crossing was Brno, and I struggled leaving, it was so nice, and hot, and I ended up having lunch and a beer with a…

I’ve not felt this at home in any country. Czech Republic, to me, feels just like being in the west country (South West, UK). Hello is “ahoy…

When I started out in Spain there was just one shop in town which had a rack: a big heavy steel bastard, and just the one panier which was…

Two months ago I set off from Spain heading north, with no real goals other than “hit as many countries as you can and do a good job at your…

I have a reputation for haphazard bike work, and getting into stupid situations. I crash, I forget to torque my bars up so a crash mid cross…

After my brief stop in Milan, I had fresh bearings, fresh legs, and some beefy new tubeless tyres, all in perfect timing for a venture into…