Rapha Festive 500

is getting closer by the day, actually it is as close as Christmas.

The plan is to ride a few 50- 100 km rides around the big day, and finish off with a epic 300 km ride on the 30th December.

On  this blog, the gear, the people, the route and the food and drinks will be presented, not to forget the speculations about the weather for the big day.

This is not going to be easy, but a cyclist never search for the easy way, this is going to be epic. Riding 500 km in areas with dry roads on road bikes, can be seen as heavy, but finishing the season in weather conditions that can be everything from a nice 1C and rain, to -20C and snowstorm,  on a cycle cross bike equipped with winter tyres with skies and Thermos bottles in the bottle cages is something else. We are going to suffer like dogs, but I am sure we are going to smile.

This is the beginning of the SOB Rapha Festive 500.


This is Hanko!