The 4am start from Edinburgh to get to Kielder for the Lewis Burn 8 was always going to turn out to be a very long day. As I got to Kielder Castle looking for directions to where we needed to be, I used the toilet facilities...
Rough seas, delayed ferry and torrential rain and that’s before we have even started the epic Manx100 mountain bike race. I call it epic because it does fall into that category and anybody who has ridden the 100km or 100 mile race will agree. 10,000 feet...
It’s all green. The landscape, the Tuk Tuks, the Tea Plantations, everywhere you look it’s green and beautiful but then there are the most amazing and friendly people that you are most likely to meet all going about their everyday lives in a laid back style...
Adventure at the heart of why we ride – they say only the good die young…..JennRide It’s 9pm the gates are getting hard to open, I’m losing the use of my hands as I climb Parkland Moor hoping to Bivvy at the top and see a...
Here we go again, a trip down to South Wales for some Fatbike action. A day at Bike Park Wales followed by an epic race with the modest title of“Battle on The Beach” at Pembrey. BOTB is a chilled out affair consisting of over a 1,000...
So here we are again 30DaysOfBiking in April. Try and ride your bike everyday no matter how far, steep, short whatever suits you. A quite country lane start on the singlespeed was just the job and then from nowhere the snow came on Day 2, not...
The coldest week for as long as I can remember the news and social media were calling it The Beast from The East. A cold wind from Siberia had drifted East and would sit on the top of the UK for a good 7 days. The...
The year closes i can hear the sound of the fireworks as 2017 is now done and dusted. The riding has been probably the best I have done with events such as Battle On The Beach, Dirty Reiver, 10UnderTheBen, Rumble In The Jungle, True Grit,...