Join me on Day 16 of my #movember challenge to cycle 100km every day for 30 days! In this video I explain how to ride in strong winds, how to pedal, to adopt an aerodynamic position and how to find your inner Belgian!
'What would a Belgian do?' is a question I ask myself when I look out the window pre-ride and see gale force winds and rain. The answer? Go ride!
I also, by chance, meet up with a Canadian friend. Christian Trenchev, a bicycle designer and engineer and a very strong cyclist located here in Taiwan, and chat with him as we ride about his business.
Great ride, great chat, what more could you ask for? Oh yeah, and great wind!
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My MOVEMBER CYCLING CHALLENGE is to ride 100km every day for 30 days!
Can a body-beaten 49 year old do it? Will the legs break first or the mind?!
Riding my bicycle around Taipei, I try to show a little of the beauty of the cycling scene here, and indeed the city itself. Due to a dodgy back, this first week will mostly be on the city's amazing bike paths, just about on every 220km of them.
Why am i doing this challenge?
Well, there have been times in my life where I was depressed, and as a man, and an English man, I felt like I had to keep it bottled up. Stiff upper lip and all that.
Sport rescued me often, football and specifically the bicycle. Cycling is an individual pursuit in many ways but there is also a social side to it that many of us hold very dear. No matter where you are in the world, no matter whether you speak the country's language or not, if you meet a cyclist, you can communicate through your passion and love for the bike.
'Cycleish', I call it.
There are so many of us that would not even like to imagine life without our bicycles.
So, that's why!
In these videos I'll be showing scenes of Taipei and the cycling roads here, as well as documenting the physical and mental changes that I undergo during this quite daunting challenge!
If you feel so inclined, please follow the link and donate, many thanks!
Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men's health, and this Movember I'm joining them. Together we can make a difference for men's health - in prostate cancer, testicular cancer, mental health and suicide prevention. Help me stop men dying too young. Help me, help us, raise some cash for a very worthy cause ;-) Thank you!
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