Before getting you to follow NorthCape4000 live, I want to start this post with something a little honest and a little vulnerable, because I think it matters: this is the post that felt hardest to write. It’s hard to ask people to follow NorthCape4000 live along, to invest their attention, to care about a dot…

Project NorthCape4000 The NorthCape4000 has been on my calendar for months. July 30th, NorthCape4000 start Berlin. I’ll be there. Here’s everything I currently know about what that looks like. Getting to Berlin: The journey before the journey Getting myself and my bike from Maribor to Berlin is the logistics problem I had to solve before…

This is the post I get asked about most often — even before I’ve answered the question of whether I’m actually ready for this — so here it is: a complete gear setup, honest breakdown of everything I’m taking to North Cape and everything I’m not, and why each decision landed where it did. Fair…

What do you really need for the ride? I want to start by saying that the bikepacking gear industry would very much like you to believe that preparing for an event like NorthCape4000 requires approximately €5,000 of specialized equipment purchased from a curated shortlist of premium brands. Some of that equipment is genuinely excellent. Some…

I want to start this post with a disclaimer: I am not a professional cyclist, I don’t have a coach, and nobody should model their training on mine without accounting for the fact that I have made a significant number of avoidable mistakes along the way that I’ll describe in some detail. What I do…

Here’s what actually happened: it was late 2025, I was sitting at my office and felt like my life had accumulated a few too many “this isn’t quite right” feelings in too short a time, and I found myself staring at the NorthCape4000 instagram account and webpage at 11pm on a Tuesday, reading the route…

Why don’t you wear underwear under cycling shorts? Let’s just say it, because somebody has to and apparently it’s me: no, you don’t wear underwear under cycling shorts. Yes, this feels wrong the first time. No, you will not be arrested. I’m answering this one directly and unglamorously because I remember standing in a changing…

This beginner road bike guide is for anyone who has just bought their first road bike and isn’t quite sure what to do next. The bike is standing in your hallway. You’ve taken seventeen photos of it. You’ve told at least four people who didn’t ask. And now it’s just there, looking at you and…