AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees

One of the DN Global Collective Senior Members turns 40, what else to do than hit some Euro summer action and investigate Girona. Chased down with some big Mon-ton riding in the Pyrenees

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AT40 – The Movie Part 2: Haute Pyrenees fever

September 22, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, Dirty Videos, France

The Road video frothing continues on! In the final instalment we find the Road warriors blasting out of Girona and into the Haute Pyrenees to put the climbing cream on the AT40 Birthday cake. But don't worry, ...

AT40 – The Movie Part 1: Hola Spain

September 21, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, Dirty Videos, Spain

For reasons that will be revealed soon, I'm under some legit blogging time pressure to squirt out the final AT40 mission media this week. Usually there's nothing worse than trying to make a Dirty video when und...

AT40 – Day 8: A different dawn raid

September 20, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, France

Wait... What the Roadie fuck? There wasn't supposed to be a Day 8 on the AT40 tour... My seemingly friendly but overly anal control freak planning OCD was quite clear on this point. Day 8 was slated in bold fon...

AT40 – Day 7: Col Double Down

September 18, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, France

Have you ever had a 9.5 hour binge drinking session where you've unwittingly consumed more alcohol in that sitting than ever before in your life? And then, you've awoken soon after to find your main homeboy cra...

AT40 – Day 6: The Greatness of Solitude

September 13, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, France

Mega post alert - Calling it out upfront here... As you may need more than one tiny road coffee to see you through this insane Pyrenees frothing. In fact, I have to say that I've reached into the shallow depths...

AT40 – Day 5: Rapha PRO hoe recovery and a change of scene

September 11, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, Spain

So into Day 5 on #AT40 and it was getting pretty obvious that not only were riding expectations being exceeded, but we were both disgustingly smitten with these banger Girona/Banyoles back roads. So much so tha...

AT40 – Day 4: The first Hor of the trip

September 8, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, Spain

Initially when I said to AT "Let's go to Spain and France and smash some Hors bro!", there was a pregnant with twins pause, and obviously a general reluctance to fist it out given such a classic every day langu...

AT40 – Day 3: Rocacorba!

September 5, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, Spain

To kick off the Day 3 report and before we get into a shitload of pictures shot from the back of the group, here's a Dirty Tip for a road trip of this flavour. Sounds simple, but every day has to have some sort...

AT40 – Day 2: The PRO cake shop

September 1, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, Spain

After a Day 1 shake down that was filled with "exciting experiences", it was time to arise relatively fresh and get into the itinerary of Spanish road cycling porn indulgence. I will admit that suiting up full ...

AT40 – Day 1: 7 Steps for dealing with Jetlag

August 29, 2016

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees, Spain

Bang, here it is, first report popping out of a bowl of sugary breakfast donuts (actually a real Spanish thing) from the massive #AT40 tour. A tad delayed as we've been getting busy being as Euro as fuck and ge...

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AT40 – The Movie Part 2: Haute Pyrenees fever

AT40 – The Movie Part 1: Hola Spain

AT40 – Day 8: A different dawn raid

AT40 – Day 7: Col Double Down

AT40 – Day 6: The Greatness of Solitude

AT40 – Day 5: Rapha PRO hoe recovery and a change of scene

AT40 – Day 4: The first Hor of the trip

AT40 – Day 3: Rocacorba!

AT40 – Day 2: The PRO cake shop

AT40 – Day 1: 7 Steps for dealing with Jetlag

AT40 - Girona vs. The Pyrenees

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