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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.

Trials and Tribulations of Touring Tubeless

Trials and Tribulations of Touring Tubeless

Tubeless in cyclocross and mountain biking these days is pretty much the default, but going tubeless for road is a long frustrating drive on the struggle bus for a couple of reasons. Finding the right parts in the first place is tough, and keeping them set up can be tricky

Botched Bivy Camping in Slovakia

Botched Bivy Camping in Slovakia

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 police & soldier couple who'd just bought matching rollerskates. I found some camping equipment and eventually started riding

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’