Mas de Panis

My bicycle has a voice.  It keeps on calling me:  Tony, Tony … where are you ? I have got in six rides in six days.  Five rides were the same 8.61 km route and the time improved by a few seconds on each ride. I have been towing my new 8 kg Bob Ibex [...]

I have been busy and the weather has been bad since I last cycled – on 15 October. I was going to do a repeat of my 12,77 km but at 7km my body said, “No!”. So I turned around at Les Boutiques and my total distance was 8.65km. I think that I should just [...]

Today I cycled the reverse of my normal 47 km route.  I expected to do it in 2 hours and 40 minutes (cycling time) which is what I did. You will see that the average en route temperature today was 30,1C.  Fairly hot but, fortunately, not humid.  And it was windy at places – particularly along [...]

This morning at 09h43 I led the Perth Pack – Johann Burger, Josh Kitchen and Matt Burgess – from Mas de Panis for 19km to Saint Antonin Noble Val .  They were continuing their 6,000 km / three-and-a-half month bicycle ride which started on 4 June 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. To see their blog click [...]

This afternoon I took the Peugeot 807 to Mas de Barrasquet in Saint Jean de Laur as Geoff and Sandy Cook arrive there tomorrow and will need it to cart their troops around. I needed a reason to get on the bicycle and I have previously, on one occasion only, done the bicycle ride from [...]

I achieved two best times on this ride: 56 minutes 55 seconds for the 16.95 km, and 3.6 km uphill at an average of 9.9 kph

Yesterday’s ride took me 58 minutes and 12 seconds and today took me 58 minutes and 00 seconds. The 3.6 km Caylus hill took me 22 minutes and 12 seconds yesterday and 22 minutes and 15 seconds today: