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Winter Bikepacking Event: The Cafe Racer 13th/14th January 2018

Entries are now open for the Bearbones Bikepacking Winter Bikepacking Event, The Cafe Racer! From the team that brings you the BB200, the Cafe Racer is a more relaxed affair run over two...

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Reviews

Just in: Wild Cycling by Chris Sidwells

I got word yesterday that there was a new guide book that would appeal to me, Wild Cycling by Chris Sidwells. Not only that, but it was on offer, and who doesn’t love a bargain?...

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Reviews

Exposure Flash & Flare lights

The Flash and Flare have been a staple of the Exposure range for some years now. In fact, I can’t quite remember when I bought my set, sometime in late 2012 or early 2013 and they...

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Featured, Journal

The Bear Bones 200 Bikepacking Adventure

The Bear Bones 200 is not so much a route as a concept. Since it’s inception in 2011, the BB 200 has used five different routes, what they’ve all had in common was being a...

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Opinion

Post Tour Divide – A survivors guide

It’s been a long while since I’ve blogged, but having recently finished The London-Edinburgh-London Audax I thought it was time to recount on what I’ve been up to and how...

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Clothing, Reviews

Rapha Brevet Bib Shorts (and Tour Divide travelogue!)

It’s Summer 2015 and I finished the Bontrager 24/12 24hr (now Pivot 24/12) Solo in ninth-place. The second half of the race had been *awful* with constant rain and the resulting mud....

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Opinion

Jumping on the Gravel Bandwagon

I’ll be the first to admit I love a good niche. Fatbikes, yep had a few. Plus bikes, yep, had one. Alt-bars, yeah, use those, and so on. Gravel bikes (All-road, Adventure-road, etc)...

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Journal, Routes

The Peddars Way

Living in East Anglia you have to accept the trails you’ve got, there are no Alpine-style passes to revel in so you’d better like forests and farmland bridleways! This...

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Guides

Want to ride the Tour Divide? Here’s a kit list

For anyone planning on riding the Tour Divide from Banff, Canada to the Mexican Border at Antelope Wells in the USA, kit is going to be pretty high on your list of things to think about....

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Journal

My Tour Divide 2016

Oh man, the Tour Divide. What a ride, a dream come true, taking part in the legend and all that. I had great plans to write up my experiences and a couple of technical cock-ups put paid to...

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