We have a winner for the Vulpine autumn clothing bundle worth over £500

Autumn gives the best riding of the year.
Any targets or aims are usually completed by now, so it's time to take the foot off the gas a little and enjoy some more relaxed riding. However, for a few precious weeks this is coupled with the left over fitness from summer.
Add to this the cooler temps and lower sun and Autumn really is the 'golden' time of year to ride.

The best thing about riding in autumn is the one amazing day of light winds, crisp air and melancholic sunlight you get for every 20 days of riding in a leaf-strewn apocalypse.

The thinking of fitting mudguards, deciding against it and coming home with a fetching badger stripe on the back and smudged freckles on the front. And cake stops in warm cafes with misty windows

Stopping to pick apples and blackberries.

Riding in the autumn when the weather changes makes me feel a bit smug, I've had the balls to get out there and take on the elements!

Quiet roads, and breaking out the warmer kit (hint: I'd like some new warmer kit, thanks)

The right cloths means the summer rides never end

Chill over Beachy Head, tempered by the sun

Riding in (to work) yesterday started with long shadows and spots of brilliant sunshine through the lanes near Houghton le Spring, followed by a wall of thick fog through Birtley (very atmospheric, 50' visibility, dew collecting on my bike and clothing), which lasted until Gateshead before popping out into brilliant sunshine as I approached Newcastle. Combined with the season of sunrises and sunsets during my daily commute, what other season gives such brilliant variation for each and every ride, love it!

Easy it makes us all bad arses #9

need the first frost for some fungi to appear, although not around the chain or gears

those squeaky Bum moments as you go under a conker tree

Crisp, bright mornings. Heading out on a Sunday morning for a few hours to offset the stews, pies and crumbles.

Radiator warmed bib shorts and socks

Crisp fresh air and colourful scenery

Dodging conkers!

I can ride harder without getting hotter !!!

Not know which bike or clothes to wear in the mornings, always good to wake up to a surprise!

Vulpine, be mine!

no wasps!

Favourite thing about cycling in Autumn?

The constant excitement of never knowing when, where or if I'm going to get a puncture on the way to, or home from work because of all the leaves hiding sharp stuff!

...and wondering if I replaced the spare inner tube in my rucksack for when the inevitible happens!

Seeing the sunrise on my morning commute. That's all I need to make it worthwhile.

The splendour of riding through the falling leaves in fading autumnal sunshine.

I like cycling in the dry cold - get the heart going and warm up.

Autumn....that'll find me getting a little colder, a little wetter and a little slower.....but change is good......kit up and ride into it!

Hill climb season!

What I love most are those mornings when the mist hangs in the fields and the deer and bunnies frolic while I ride by (dawn coming that much later in the day).

What I don't like is how cold I get when I'm caught in the rain when riding to work - so please send me some of that brilliant Vulpine gear.

The best thing about Autumn cycling is that added mental challenge when the weather is whispering "don't bother, you don't want this". All you can do is prove it wrong!

Yeah Autumn is ok when the sun is out I like it when the leaves are changing colour and it's time to don the over shoes and savour the friendly group rides to a cafe stop.

But it's bloody awful at the moment when it's cold grey and wet. Mind you putting on some Vulpine clothing might make even this fair-weather cyclist tempted to try a ride in the not so glorious Autumn weather.

Ps can you get Wahoo to do a similar competition for their kickr trainer

Yes Please, best thing about autumn is the weather is so bad no one else is out to see how badly i ride.... or to hear how much i swear when fixing punctures.