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

My favourite thing about cycling in the autumn is wearing the Vulpine outfit I just won in the road.cc Vulpine clothing bundle competition!

Cycling in the Autumn is: beautiful multicoloured leaves, melting sunrises and sunsets, beginning to see my hot, healthy breath, and racing the sun home.

riding over dartmoor as the new colours of autumn take over.... Dodging falling nuts and conkers! But best of all, pulling on warm and cosy merino socks, such a good ' ah' feeling ...

the big calm around and the lukewarm air, the right ambient to ride slowly to recover after a tough racing season

It beats the hell out of taking the bus or the car - ditto winter spring summer

Love the smell of damp leaves in the morning.

Night rides in the woods, extra cake and epic snot rockets.

After a long warm summer it's nice that autumn is here. The crisp fresh air in the morning help cool you slightly as your layers keep in the heat you body produces. How couldn't love the beautiful colours that this time of year produces as well.

After a long warm summer it's nice that autumn is here. The crisp fresh air in the morning help cool you slightly as your layers keep in the heat you body produces. How couldn't love the beautiful colours that this time of year produces as well.

After a long warm summer it's nice that autumn is here. The crisp fresh air in the morning help cool you slightly as your layers keep in the heat you body produces. How couldn't love the beautiful colours that this time of year produces as well.

After a long warm summer it's nice that autumn is here. The crisp fresh air in the morning help cool you slightly as your layers keep in the heat you body produces. How couldn't love the beautiful colours that this time of year produces as well.

Best way to warm up is a few chunky hills!

It's gotta be the changing of the colours - from green to orange to brown, and the way more views are revealed as the leaves fall away from the trees and the bushes thin out. I really love that that you get better views in Autumn.

Getting to the pub when it's dark, so it's definitely time to stop.

If summer riding builds your legs, riding in the fall and winter strengthens the mind. Getting out the door requires a little more effort. Spending a little longer kitting up - knickers or just warmers? Gilet or jacket? Shoe covers?
I hit the air and brace for the first few lungfuls. It is alternately crisp and cool and moist with the decay of summer now gone. Rich with smells of harvest dust and crusting leaves. Mornings are edged with drizzle or frost.
All the old familiar vistas change. Leaves are warmer and light is lower and cooler. Fields flip from ripe to harvested to raw soil in hours.
Windy days are now the norm, so I trade to a bike with fatter, softer tires and ride the gravel routes I haven't seen since spring. The feel, sights and sounds are all new again. I've entered a new country, ripe to be explored.

The fun of putting all your clothes on to get out into the cold day, only to find yourself stripping off and stuffing your clothes into pockets as soon as you realise it's not that cold! Maybe some new purposeful kit would make the getting dressed game a little easier?

This is a nice thing. I enjoy cycling in the autumn, nice to not be put off.

Warming Sunday Roast Stops

going scrumping for apples

Early cold crispness, clarity and colours, the best time of the year, perhaps?

Arriving home with red cheeks, warm hands having just completed a tough ride!

The feeling of satisfaction after a long cold ride as you stand under the shower and start getting the feeling back into your fingers and toes.

That and cold clear mornings out in the hills

My favourite thing about cycling in the autumn is: When you open the door and the cold air hits your face and you wonder if you should go and put another layer on, you hesitate but still chance it and within a mile your toasty.

riding in the autumn is like a film set ... ... ...

wardrobe - weather dependant
lights - always
camera - nice to reflect
quiet - before the storm
action
cut - the coming home shredded with a warm glow and feeling epic like i'm a Belgian.

priceless

Autumn is the season more than any other, when I realise just how lucky I am to get about by bicycle. There is something immensely satisfying about heading out into the city and then the lanes before the world has woken up yet. A chill in the air and a dream like quality about the light.

I love the sense of the transience of nature, the crack of dry fallen leafs under my tyres and the gentle whirring of my gears, speeding me to my destination where a warm cup of coffee and a day at the coalface awaits. Before evening comes and I get to do it all over again.

Autumn Riding lets me feel I'm on the way to being a real Cyclist. Not least because I have all the correct layers - now for winter!

The Goyt Valley on a crisp morning

getting out when it's cold and stripping off as it warms up

Mmm. Autumn. Early finish to my rides before the sun goes down and back home to some warmth.

The chance to shop for and wear EVERYTHING MERINO! I'm working on developing a 100% merino helmet but there are still a few minor kinks to be ironed out in my prototype