Alex McD
@alex-mcd.bsky.social
Cycling, more cycling and a sprinkle of motorsickles.
Bikes are gid 🏴🇪🇺
Live life on 2 wheels 🙂
Bikes are gid 🏴🇪🇺
Live life on 2 wheels 🙂
That was a beautiful mornings cyclocrossing.
0°C, crisp, sunny and a cracking course complete with drops, woods section and tough punchy climbs.
Scottish CX can be fantastic some days.
#cyclocross
0°C, crisp, sunny and a cracking course complete with drops, woods section and tough punchy climbs.
Scottish CX can be fantastic some days.
#cyclocross
November 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
That was a beautiful mornings cyclocrossing.
0°C, crisp, sunny and a cracking course complete with drops, woods section and tough punchy climbs.
Scottish CX can be fantastic some days.
#cyclocross
0°C, crisp, sunny and a cracking course complete with drops, woods section and tough punchy climbs.
Scottish CX can be fantastic some days.
#cyclocross
Sometimes things escalate quickly, my ‘dealer’ had the shiny bits I want, so now on the bike.
Much better. 😁
Now doing brake pads that won’t be bedded in properly before the morning.
Much better. 😁
Now doing brake pads that won’t be bedded in properly before the morning.
November 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Sometimes things escalate quickly, my ‘dealer’ had the shiny bits I want, so now on the bike.
Much better. 😁
Now doing brake pads that won’t be bedded in properly before the morning.
Much better. 😁
Now doing brake pads that won’t be bedded in properly before the morning.
The fruits of a couple of hours cleaning & maintenance. (Yeah, the garage has sound proofing) 🙂
#cyclocross
#cyclocross
November 28, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The fruits of a couple of hours cleaning & maintenance. (Yeah, the garage has sound proofing) 🙂
#cyclocross
#cyclocross
In more positive news, I had a Quarq power meter spider that used to be on my Tarmac SL7, as of 10 minutes ago it’s on my Crux main CX bike.
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In more positive news, I had a Quarq power meter spider that used to be on my Tarmac SL7, as of 10 minutes ago it’s on my Crux main CX bike.
If I manage to resurrect this bearing I want to be known as “The Jockey Wheel Whisperer”
Never been impressed with SRAM bearings. #bikesky
Never been impressed with SRAM bearings. #bikesky
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If I manage to resurrect this bearing I want to be known as “The Jockey Wheel Whisperer”
Never been impressed with SRAM bearings. #bikesky
Never been impressed with SRAM bearings. #bikesky
Did somebody say pie?
Here’s a beef stew pie inside a morning roll 😁
Scot’s. We know how to kill ourselves slowly but enjoyably.
Here’s a beef stew pie inside a morning roll 😁
Scot’s. We know how to kill ourselves slowly but enjoyably.
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Did somebody say pie?
Here’s a beef stew pie inside a morning roll 😁
Scot’s. We know how to kill ourselves slowly but enjoyably.
Here’s a beef stew pie inside a morning roll 😁
Scot’s. We know how to kill ourselves slowly but enjoyably.
November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Found a pic of my Tarmac SL4 from 2020 with the Forth Bridge at South Queensferry, takes me back, bikes have changed so much in such a short time.
Alloy Mavic wheels
9mm skewers
11 speed 2X mechanical
Longer cranks
Rim brakes
Round handle bars.
Minimal integration
#bikesky
Alloy Mavic wheels
9mm skewers
11 speed 2X mechanical
Longer cranks
Rim brakes
Round handle bars.
Minimal integration
#bikesky
November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Found a pic of my Tarmac SL4 from 2020 with the Forth Bridge at South Queensferry, takes me back, bikes have changed so much in such a short time.
Alloy Mavic wheels
9mm skewers
11 speed 2X mechanical
Longer cranks
Rim brakes
Round handle bars.
Minimal integration
#bikesky
Alloy Mavic wheels
9mm skewers
11 speed 2X mechanical
Longer cranks
Rim brakes
Round handle bars.
Minimal integration
#bikesky
Found old photos, stock full fairings & the Ricambi Weiss bodywork & put on then sold again.
& what the SS looked like when I first built it up to race trim (apart from tyres). 🙂
Question is what way to go with the SS? I’ve got a lovely 796 Monster so can afford to think about this properly.
& what the SS looked like when I first built it up to race trim (apart from tyres). 🙂
Question is what way to go with the SS? I’ve got a lovely 796 Monster so can afford to think about this properly.
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Found old photos, stock full fairings & the Ricambi Weiss bodywork & put on then sold again.
& what the SS looked like when I first built it up to race trim (apart from tyres). 🙂
Question is what way to go with the SS? I’ve got a lovely 796 Monster so can afford to think about this properly.
& what the SS looked like when I first built it up to race trim (apart from tyres). 🙂
Question is what way to go with the SS? I’ve got a lovely 796 Monster so can afford to think about this properly.
Nice. I only ever got as far as modifying race body work with glass fibre to make it fit my bikes better.
Probably best I did was making 1098 fairing fit my 800SS that I built for Minitwins. Bit of buggaration but made it work. 🙂
Jeez that’s a long time ago now 🥴
Probably best I did was making 1098 fairing fit my 800SS that I built for Minitwins. Bit of buggaration but made it work. 🙂
Jeez that’s a long time ago now 🥴
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Nice. I only ever got as far as modifying race body work with glass fibre to make it fit my bikes better.
Probably best I did was making 1098 fairing fit my 800SS that I built for Minitwins. Bit of buggaration but made it work. 🙂
Jeez that’s a long time ago now 🥴
Probably best I did was making 1098 fairing fit my 800SS that I built for Minitwins. Bit of buggaration but made it work. 🙂
Jeez that’s a long time ago now 🥴
Indoor training season.
This is my set up:
Kickr Core
Zwift Cog & Click
Kickr Climb
Tarmac SL4
Thoughts
I mostly train in ERG mode with Training Peaks which means most of the time the Climb is a paperweight.
I use an Apple TV, this means I have Click or HRM not both. As it’s mostly ERG….
This is my set up:
Kickr Core
Zwift Cog & Click
Kickr Climb
Tarmac SL4
Thoughts
I mostly train in ERG mode with Training Peaks which means most of the time the Climb is a paperweight.
I use an Apple TV, this means I have Click or HRM not both. As it’s mostly ERG….
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Indoor training season.
This is my set up:
Kickr Core
Zwift Cog & Click
Kickr Climb
Tarmac SL4
Thoughts
I mostly train in ERG mode with Training Peaks which means most of the time the Climb is a paperweight.
I use an Apple TV, this means I have Click or HRM not both. As it’s mostly ERG….
This is my set up:
Kickr Core
Zwift Cog & Click
Kickr Climb
Tarmac SL4
Thoughts
I mostly train in ERG mode with Training Peaks which means most of the time the Climb is a paperweight.
I use an Apple TV, this means I have Click or HRM not both. As it’s mostly ERG….
If the RS-GP agrees to marry Marco, Massimo has to take the chastity grills of the SC Project exhaust cans.
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
If the RS-GP agrees to marry Marco, Massimo has to take the chastity grills of the SC Project exhaust cans.
Meanwhile, The Levellers album Zeitgeist is 30 years old.
Jeez, that’s flown by.
Jeez, that’s flown by.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Meanwhile, The Levellers album Zeitgeist is 30 years old.
Jeez, that’s flown by.
Jeez, that’s flown by.
The ghosts of Murieston Trail
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The ghosts of Murieston Trail
Friday night done pretty well.
I absolutely burst myself on a cycle circuit session tonight 😁.
I absolutely burst myself on a cycle circuit session tonight 😁.
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Friday night done pretty well.
I absolutely burst myself on a cycle circuit session tonight 😁.
I absolutely burst myself on a cycle circuit session tonight 😁.
United States Secretary of Homeland Security pictured earlier.
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
United States Secretary of Homeland Security pictured earlier.
Tonight I shall be riding the posh bike on the car and grit free asphalt cycle circuit.
As soon as I’ve taken it of the wall…..
As soon as I’ve taken it of the wall…..
November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Tonight I shall be riding the posh bike on the car and grit free asphalt cycle circuit.
As soon as I’ve taken it of the wall…..
As soon as I’ve taken it of the wall…..
That’s not my Guzzi, its cylinders are not sticky outy.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
That’s not my Guzzi, its cylinders are not sticky outy.
Sitting, staring out the window into the darkness. Thinking, no salt down on the roads that I’ve noticed (yet)..
.. I can get another ride out of the posh bike before I admit defeat for the winter. 🙂
.. I can get another ride out of the posh bike before I admit defeat for the winter. 🙂
November 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Sitting, staring out the window into the darkness. Thinking, no salt down on the roads that I’ve noticed (yet)..
.. I can get another ride out of the posh bike before I admit defeat for the winter. 🙂
.. I can get another ride out of the posh bike before I admit defeat for the winter. 🙂
Repost this with you and your significant other(s)
(Not really)
(Not really)
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Repost this with you and your significant other(s)
(Not really)
(Not really)
Nope, that’s a fantastic effort. 😁
I did wear out the sidewall / tread junction on a P Zero with enthusiastic cornering on a cycle circuit earlier this year though.
I did wear out the sidewall / tread junction on a P Zero with enthusiastic cornering on a cycle circuit earlier this year though.
October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Nope, that’s a fantastic effort. 😁
I did wear out the sidewall / tread junction on a P Zero with enthusiastic cornering on a cycle circuit earlier this year though.
I did wear out the sidewall / tread junction on a P Zero with enthusiastic cornering on a cycle circuit earlier this year though.
October 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM