Coffee, Beer, Cycling and Rules
I’m a food snob. For me, eating is one of life’s great pleasures, so it’s really important that what I eat and drink tastes fantastic. When it comes to coffee I was well into my 20s before I started getting into it. I didn’t like coffee much and and rarely drank it. At the time […]
Hunt Race Season Aero Wide Wheels: Long Term Test
Update November 2018 I’ve covered a lot more miles on these wheels since I wrote the review and they continue to perform flawlessly. The same unfortunately can’t be said for their performance with tubeless tyres. In my original review wrote about a safety recall on the supplied rim tapes, followed by a failure of the […]
Self guided cycling holidays. Why do people love them?
When we started St Antonin Noble Velo we were expecting to do a mixture of guided and self guided cycling, but it turns out that most of our customers opt for self guided, and it’s actually quite rare that I take people out riding. For us, that’s fine, we’re just happy to have customers, but […]
A Vegan Cycling Holiday? Is that really a thing?
This year we’ve decided to try something very niche, a vegan cycling holiday. As far as we can tell we’re the only people in France, maybe in Europe offering this. I’ll be posting details soon, but I thought I’d write a blog post about it first. I’ve been a vegetarian for longer than I’m going to […]
Giordana Nano Shell Review
Unless you live in a hot desert, every cyclists needs a wind/waterproof to take on rides. It’s there to deal with unexpected rain, cold or big descents. Unlike most cycling gear though it will (hopefully) spend most of it’s time in your pocket not on your back. I’ve never found an entirely satisfactory solution to […]
A loop down the Aveyron Gorge
Part of what I want to do with this blog is give a flavour of some of the rides you can do from here. This ride is popular because it takes in some of the best scenery this part of France has to offer, is really varied and doesn’t have too much climbing. It also […]
Meet our Bike Hire partner, Simon at Velo du Lot
When we set up St Antonin Noble Velo, we realised early on that we’d need really high quality bike hire, but also that we didn’t want to run a bike hire company. Lots of our customers told us that bringing their own bike was a hassle, cost money and there’s the ever present risk of damage. […]
A Quick Blast Down The Aveyron
My own riding is often very different from the routes I give our customers. They have all day to ride, so I usually sort out routes which follow quiet valley roads, so that they can do a long ride without insane amounts of climbing. I rarely have time to do that, but I still want […]
Spring in St Antonin and a new blog
Now the web site’s been up for a while, I thought it was time to experiment with writing a blog. Well, more accurately my web guy said google will love me for it… Still I like writing and there’s always something to say about what we’re up to here in St Antonin. St Antonin […]