Planning Out The Rest Of The Year

With Fall here now I am thinking about the rest of 2025 and what I would like to accomplish before Winter shuts down riding to plowing through snow on my fat bikes. 

Obviously, this past Summer is a perfect example of why you can lay down plans and never see them come to fruition due to circumstances beyond your control. I certainly have had this experience over the past month and a half. 

So, risking possibilities of having all this nixed and never happening, I have the following ideas for how I'd like to see my riding go for the next few months. 

Obviously, I want to put in a lot of time on my new Peregrine Mk4. I already have a couple of tweaks in mind to accomplish concerning fit for the bike. This will mean a couple of component changes are in the mix. I know I need a different seat post with a hair more set back. I also want to swap out saddles. The current WTB SL8 was already attached to the seat post when I grabbed it out of the parts bin, so it was a choice made out of convenience. I now remember why it was not one of my favorites! 

I also have to put in miles on those Schwalbe G-One Overland tires for my review. So, gravel rides are on the menu here. I think since I have use of a vehicle again I can perhaps haul the bike to start points I would not have been able to do before this and since last October. This presents more options, and honestly, a bit more excitement from my perspective. 

You are probably going to get tires of seeing this bike. Well......hopefully you will!

Later on into Fall I want to try to do another metric century, or attempt a full century, but getting an entire day to myself is not easy now. This is merely a hope. I need to get in a solid base of consistent two to three hour rides before this can really be a reality anyway. 

Then I will also be doing the Virtual Turkey Burn Challenge again this year around our Thanksgiving weekend holiday. I hope Winter doesn't come earlier than this! It should be the last big mileage weekend for the season for me. I also enjoy the stories which come in for the blog related to this. In case you are not familiar with the Virtual Turkey Burn Challenge, hit THIS LINK and it will take you to a post I wrote concerning the challenge so you can understand what it is. Maybe you will want to join in?  (There will be an "official" announcement coming for this in November.)

In the past I have not offered any reward other than having your story and images reproduced on the blog. This time I may do something like have some stickers made and have anyone who wants to participate send me a self-addressed, stamped envelope to send some stickers out for doing the challenge. I'll have to come up with a design for this. 

So, I know this is a bit unfocused and lacks any hard and fast dates, and whatnot, but I'm playing things by ear here and with what has happened to me over the past several weeks has made me a bit reticent to say "this will happen" or what have you.