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Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon

Software Engineer gone ferril. Digital nomad since 2018 (bike/van). Now dedicated to woodland creation and restoration, as co-founder of UK climate chairty Protect Earth.

Euro Trip: Two Months Stats

Euro Trip: Two Months Stats

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 day job", with my shit kit, before my bike fell apart. Since then I've changed my

Losing my Nut on the Swiss/German Border

Losing my Nut on the Swiss/German Border

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 race leaves me riding sideways for the rest of it, and at this point my touring bike is 50% zip tie. @philsturgeon they’

Euro Trip: Switzerland to Liechtenstein

Euro Trip: Switzerland to Liechtenstein

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 the Swiss Alps. The Alps lived up to the challenge I was hoping for, with one crash, a hitchhike, and a whole lot of

Getting my Bearings in Milan

Getting my Bearings in Milan

Milan was a great rest stop after a bonkers trip through the French Alps, and I had three days off the bike as once again there were things to fix. The bearings had worn down and the cassette had a noticeable wobble, and internally it was squealing so badly I

French Alps to Italy via Colle di Tende

French Alps to Italy via Colle di Tende

After taking a week long break in Nice to relax on a beach, get my back wheel re-spoked, and get a bit of work done, I popped over to Monaco for a day and pretended to be a F1 car. Then after heading back to Nice to visit some clients,

French Flat F**kery

French Flat F**kery

Things went to absolute shit between Montpelier and Nice, and got a bit silly getting over the Alps to Italy. Constant headwinds and cold rain aside, I was getting flats like nothing else. The first flat was in the first mile and I think again I let the back wheel

Andorra and the Minibus Hero

Andorra and the Minibus Hero

The pace in Spain had been a bit funny. I got drafted to speak at API Meetup Barcelona, which was about a week after I had originally planned to be in Barcelona. So I'd been distracting myself with mountains and treating myself to an extra rest day to