Rear View 2025: Winter Begins

 Hello! it's time again to review the year on Guitar Ted Productions. The "Rear View" has been a staple of the blog since almost the very beginning. This year will feature  five Rear View posts looking back on   End of Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, and  Beginning of Winter. I'll also have a post looking ahead at 2026. Enjoy the look back and thanks for reading Guitar Ted Productions!

With Fall winding down I turned my attention to the upcoming Virtual Turkey Burn Ride challenge. The weather was very mild heading on onto November with consistent days into the 50's and often warmer. 

I had high hopes I might be able to rdie my new Peregrine Mk4, and as a warm-up of sorts, I took this bike on a Veteran's Day ride with N.Y. Roll. He being a veteran of a foreign war and all, it was the right thing to do!

The Peregrine was awesome, and recent tweaks I had made to it were really helping. I did switch out those Schwalbe G-One Overland tires as soon as I was finished reviewing them though. I just wasn't a big fan of how these tires felt to ride. I ended up on old SOMA Fab Cazederos with TPU tubes instead.    

The Singular Cycles Peregrine Mk4 with the SOMA Fab Cazedero 700 X 50mm tires.

The Veteran's Day Ride was a lot of fun.

Things were great weather-wise for a warmer weather attempt at the VTBRC until right up to the day of my attempt when a cold front came through. That pushed me to a narrower window to get it done. I essentially was going to have one day to get the ride in before a huge snow storm was forecast to hit the area. This put my plans to ride the Peregrine off and I switched gears to riding the Ti Muk 2 instead. Mostly because this bicycle has pogie-possibilities and it was going to be chilly. I was thinking of staying out of the winds and to ride the Green Belt instead of in the open countryside. 

Well, as it turned out I only logged 42 miles for the day, but I guess if you add in about five hours of snow shoveling, I probably burned the same amount of turkey as I would have if I had ridden a metric century. (Maybe more!)

The VTBR ended up coming short of my goal.

I thought I'd ridden this bike for the last time in November. Think again!

 So, going into December a new project has come up revolving around the frame set for the Twin Six Standard Rando v2. I've already posted about this elsewhere, so all I will say here is to look for more on this in the coming year.

The snow and cold relegated me to snow bike commutes, snow shoveling, and writing up all this end-of-year stuff! But then about mid-month it relented, warmed up, got messy, and fenders were necessary! Now with December's ending I will recalibrate  and see where my goals may be for 2026. I'll talk about this and more in my final post in this series, "Looking Ahead".