My plan is to convert the current premises into a bike café and high performance centre, combining several complementary activities:

• A small, high-quality coffee bar offering coffees, fresh snacks, sports drinks, sports

snacks, and gels

• A workshop mostly for basic bike maintenance and other works, but nothing too heavy

• Performance testing and coaching, drawing on my background as a Level 3 personal

trainer and REPS-qualified circuit instructor, and my experience managing Cadence

Performance Cycles in London, where I ran lactate-threshold testing and structured

six-week training programmes for cyclists, including work with former Tour de France

riders

• Voice and breathing sessions with a professional tenor from the Grand Théâtre de

Bordeaux, exploring the crossover between athletic conditioning and vocal performance

• Wine tasting and dégustation sessions, and potentially vineyard cycling tours (for

example to Saint-Émilion), run by a well-regarded local sommelier partner

• General fitness classes, including indoor cycling (spin) sessions and circuit training,

alongside a welcoming space to relax, enjoy a coffee, and unwind — creating a genuine

local hub and gathering place for cyclists

• Gravel bike tours to Saint-Émilion and back, run by a friend and potential partner who

.General community hub, pop in for a coffee or start/finish your tour/bike tour/ride here.

(would use the hub as a starting point for these excursions)

Following the untimely passing of my father in a bike accident in Spain about a month or so ago I want to open this café and hub in Tribute to him and his grandson. As a world champion in

rowing, I have a rowing machine and an elliptical trainer available, which could also be used for general training sessions. I already have most of the equipment needed for bike

maintenance work — due to a genuine passion for bikes and cycling, and having worked

for seven to eight months at a company called Velos, based in the Chartrons area of Bordeaux — as well as for general exercise and gym use, also yoga and mobility.