2026 - Our Rides in Words, Photos, Maps and Videos

A couple of pics from today's 17km ride. The photo of the turkey was taken before I even got out of my yard.

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GCN comparo: Dogma X the endurance bike vs. Dogma F the racer...


Commenters were asked which they prefer. The X was way ahead in the comments I read (maybe a quarter of them).

Not sure what "mistake" the title's talking about. YouTube titles have really degenerated in the last few years, and GCN's following the trend. Even respectable channels like Veritasium are moving to deceptive click-bait titles now. Very sad.
I don't either. I can say that when an older rider wants to buy a new F, we will suggest looking at an X. If you have to stack a ton of spacers under the stem of an F to be comfortable, you are better off on an X.

I don't know why they call the X an "allroad" bike. It's not sold as such, or advertised as such. Just because it can fit 35mm tires doesn't make it an allroad bike. It may be a bit less pointy at the head of the spear than an F, but it was designed as a fast road bike, and it rides like one.
 
Not sure what "mistake" the title's talking about.
Many people buy a racing bike while they actually need an All-Road one. I can remember a man from one of the cycling channels who was cursing himself for buying a "Tadej Pogacar's Colnago" while what he really loved to ride was an All-Road bike at the half of the price :)

Besides, all major formats of this years Unbound Gravel were won by Specialized riders on Crux 5, not long ago an All-Road bike, now, a racing gravel bike :)
 
Returned with Bri to Sunderland point with the intenetion of riding the headland and actually getting to the nuclear reactor.
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Imagine getting cut off twice a day
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Tide gauge on the house, well theres your problem said the damp course engineer.
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Older than Murica
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There were lots of these lines of stones
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Bri decided to try the sand instead
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The Levo glided over this gravel
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Much asking of locals pointed us to this footpath
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It ran out at a 30ft drop, Bri went for the descent, I rode through the empty caravan site
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He pushed 90% of it over mud and boulders
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At last, two reactors here which hold the world record for continous operation without shutdown.
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They are advanced gas cooled reactors and have made 115Twhs so far, in August 2019 it started making huge bangs as it auto restarted from an electricl fault.
The locals put their heads between their knees and kissed their arses googbye
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The cooling water channels are epic, thats a strong flow like a heavy river between large steel walls set in the mud.
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The second one looks apocalyptic in person with the desolate background
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This is where the large ferries to Ireland and the Isle of Man depart from, rather miserable large scale industrial
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The dredger guys were play fighting while the captain waved to us, what jobs some people have
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