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The Adventure Planning Blueprint

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The Adventure Shed Planning Blueprint

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The Adventure Planning Blueprint

For the launch of the Adventure Planning Blueprint, we spoke to The Adventure Shed founder and serial adventurer Vedangi Kulkarni about this exciting new tool for expedition planning. First...

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Back on the Bike

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Short Film: Back On The Bike

In the autumn of 2020 professional photographer Sam Dugon had the idea to take her mum, who hadn’t ridden a bike in over 20 years, across the breadth of North Wales on a bikepacking and...

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Roval C38

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New Roval Rapide C38 wheelset from Specialized

The performance-orientated carbon Roval Rapide C38 wheelset will happily see you race up climbs on smooth roads or attack gravel roads with washboard descents, according to Specialized, and...

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EVOC Ride 12L

Accessories, Bikepacking Gear, Featured, Reviews

EVOC Ride 12L Backpack review

EVOC has long been known as category leaders for mountain biking rucksacks, hip packs and flight cases, but where do they fit in for gravel and bikepacking? With the recent release of the...

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Argyll gravel overnighter bikepacking

Bucket List Rides, Featured, Journal, Routes

A gravel blast up Argyll’s ‘secret coast’

With lockdown restrictions easing and the worst of the April freeze over, a spontaneous plan saw us set off to hit the gravel roads of Argyll for an overnight adventure. Photography by...

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Cube Cross Race Pro Gravel Amateur

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Writer’s rig: Zetland Cycles’ Gravel Amateur

In our writer’s and reader’s rigs series, we chatted to Will Jones of Zetland Cycles about his curiously named ‘Gravel Amateur’. Introduce your rig Behold, my 2016...

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Outdoor Provisions nut butters

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Outdoor Provisions bars and nut butters review

With some exciting new additions to the line up, the Manchester-based bikepacking duo behind Outdoor Provisions sent ADVNTR contributor Michael Drummond some of their snacks to test. It can...

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Turn your old MTB into a gravel bike

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How to turn an old MTB into a gravel bike

As we covered in Part 1 (Are Gravel Bikes Just 80's Mountain Bikes?), although vintage mountain bikes are not the same as modern gravel bikes, I think that with a few tweaks they can be...

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Macclesfield gravel

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Best of Macclesfield: Mikmonken’s gravel routes

Local exploring has really been a theme for 20/21, mainly out of necessity, but has really helped cultivate some local experts in off-road riding and route planning. We chatted to Mike...

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Brooks Scape

Bikepacking Gear, Featured, Reviews

Brooks Scape Bikepacking Bags: First Look

Brooks, arguably the name in British saddle production for generations, has over recent years branched out into bags and more traditional bike luggage, all with that famous Brooks quality...

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