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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: Czech Republic

Euro Trip: Czech Republic

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", cider is "cider" (and it's popular), and there are tractors everywhere, parked in peoples driveways

New Life, New Job

New Life, New Job

2017 was mostly spent putting out fires at WeWork as an API designer and architect, helping to debug and stabilize their tightly coupled deathstar architecture, which was constantly crashing for pretty much no reason, with absolutely zero fault-tolerance anywhere. A lot of 2018 was spent trying to figure out a

Touring Logistics

Touring Logistics

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 junk, it would come flying off at the slightest bump. Worse than that, the mechanic at that bike shop was truing

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