Welcome back to the Cycling Tips Podcast, everybody. Okay, Fretz, it is June 13th. Hope you enjoyed last week's kind of special episode, something a bit different.

My sit down with Rupert Guinness ahead of his first attempt at the race across America,

which actually kicks off tomorrow Tuesday June 14th he is he's ready to go and I

I mentioned this on the pod last week but there's a bunch of different ways you can follow him go check out his Instagram

Rupert.guinis and then we'll be putting a story up today where you can watch his dot

as he goes across America.

He had a bit of a snafoo with his bike

on the way to California, way to say,

wait to San Diego, broke a seat stay.

Trek hooked him up with a new bike.

He's good to go.

So he will be, he will be making the start line in San Diego tomorrow.

If you missed that episode, go check it out. It's, yeah, it's something a bit different from the podcast here, but I hope you all enjoyed it.

Today we're getting back into a normal episode of the podcast. We've got a little crew here to chat through what's going on in the world of bikes.

Shoddy Dave, you're just back from a little trip up to Scotland, aren't you?

Yeah, I've been up in Kitzenek of the wood. I went up to Scotland, aren't you? Yeah, I've been up in Kitzenek of the wood.

I went up to Aberdeen, shear.

Went popped up to see how the Queen's getting on in Bell-Moverle.

Got a road-trupping piece coming to the site in the near future around that way.

And I, man, I felt like a right muppet. I used to live like six hour drive from there,

and I don't know why I've never been up there and I regret it big

style because it's amazing riding up there and the foods are good and I discovered

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