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The Atlas Mountain Race Diary – PT.1 of 4

A beginners insight into the Morocco based ultra endurance epic, the Atlas Mountain Race. Early on in 2020 the Atlas mountains played host to a 700 mile endurance mountain bike race which saw competitors from around the world...

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The Zetland Cycles Low Key Lakes Weekender

The Low Key Lakes Weekender is all about great company, paper maps and no...

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Glampacking on the IOW – Bikepacking done different.

Claire Frecknall along with a few others went Glampacking on the IOW, Englands...

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The Nelson Trees Interview

We talk routes, challenges and rewards with Silk Road creator Nelson Trees....

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The Builders of Bespoked : Part 01

  Written by Michael Drummond Foreword by Tangwyn Andrews ADVNTR...

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Interview : A tale of two Divides

Two gruelling races and two different riders sit down and talk all things race,...

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The Service Course Gravel Bonanza

The Service Course team in Wilmslow finally got to hold their Gravel Bonanza...

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Its all about perspective – Womens Tour of Britain

Whilst not gritty, grotty, gravel focused bikepacking, the love of cycling and...

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Second City Divide – A ‘fast’ ride to the Finishers Party.

Some avid endurance cyclists have been making up for lost time and miles this...

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External and Internal Benefits of cycling – Issue 02 

This series is all about discovering the magical way that cycling not only...

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External and Internal Benefits of Cycling

The bike has the obvious ability of transporting us all in the physical space...

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Rapha Pennine Rally, on Cargo Bikes

When you think cargo bike, you may envisage city streets, and a loaded up mixed...

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Midweek Local Overnighters – A new Impression of the familiar

We all have to start somewhere, and with that come the mistakes and challenges...

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Leeds to Lyme Regis – Seeking out Simple Wonders

Following a tour around the Restrap factory in Leeds, Michael Drummond...

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FKT on the Badger Divide

  Not more than a month following on from an incredible top 10 position on...

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Gritfest: The UK’s best gravel event?

With the number of events exploding on the UK gravel scene, we took in the...

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Tour de Restrap: overnighter in the Yorkshire Dales

Restrap have been there seemingly since the genesis of the bikepacking boom...

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Cycling Through A Pandemic

Cycling Through A Pandemic features the stories and photographs of cyclists...

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New 7,600km European Divide Trail launched

From the Artic Ocean at Grense Jakobselv in Norway to Cabo St Vincent in...

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Dales Divide ‘Sporty Tour’

Big weekends on the bike don’t always go to plan: but that doesn’t...

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48 hours on the Dales Divide

After tackling the first major British ultra since the Covid outbreak, we...

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The Central Highlander

No sooner had the First Minister announced a relaxing of travel restrictions as...

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The Adventure Planning Blueprint

For the launch of the Adventure Planning Blueprint, we spoke to The Adventure...

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Short Film: Back On The Bike

In the autumn of 2020 professional photographer Sam Dugon had the idea to take...

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A gravel blast up Argyll’s ‘secret coast’

With lockdown restrictions easing and the worst of the April freeze over, a...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Are Gravel Bikes Just 80’s Mountain Bikes?

No, mostly. But also yes, sometimes. Although the gravel bike has graduated...

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Camping: 1977 vs today according to Ladybird

If you grew up in the UK in the late 20th Century, you’re likely to have...

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DIY Front Bag Support for just £35

With the advent of increasingly wide drop bars (anything from the modest...

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Highland Fling: NC500 by tandem

In the late summer of 2020, my partner Charlotte and I decided to have a crack...

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Touring the North West Scotland Coast: Fixed

Many of us dream of touring in Scotland: the mountains, rugged beauty and...

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Velo Wales from The Friction Collective

In the book of Genesis, God said: ‘Let the water under the sky be...

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Reasons to be optimistic in 2021

The New Year is usually a time for reflection, celebration and goal-setting for...

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Basket Everesting: 2020’s wackiest cycling challenge yet?

Mechanic Joel Jones of Wayfarer Cycles, an independent bikeworkshop based in...

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Short Film: Lost Captures

Kicking off their world tour by bike, Lost Captures is the story of Yorkshire...

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Announced: AUTMNL ADVNTR photo challenge winners

Wow, what a response to our AUTMNL ADVNTR photography challenge! Over the last...

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Recceing Brother Cycles’ new Kent gravel ride for ’21

A testing new string of bridleways, forest tracks, byways, field crossings and...

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Hiraeth: The Bear Bones 200

With Welsh ancestry, Chris Lansley’s journey through Wales on his first...

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Keep exploring into autumn and winter with Vedangi

Round-the-world cyclist and serial adventurer Vedangi Kulkarni is no stranger...

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Photographer Dan Monaghan on AUTMNL ADVNTR

Professional photographer and ADVNTR’s gravel correspondent in the...

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Racing Badlands: 720 km of Spanish high mountains, desert and coastline

In early September 2020, Marcus Nicolson from Glasgow, Scotland, took part in...

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Cameras at the ready for our AUTMNL ADVNTR challenge

Summer’s warmth might already feel long-gone, and the once dusty, dry...

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Racing the inaugural Great British Escapade

As I rolled down to the start of the inaugural Great British Escapade, I...

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Kell’s pregnancy flat-bar conversion

When riding is central part of your life and things happen, you adapt, and...

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Short Film: Drovers, PerthshireGravel.com

Filmed on the Drovers Trail, a new 331 kilometre (206 mile) gravel bikepacking...

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Into the storm: Black Mountain overnighter

The icy rain blew up the pass, driving into our exposed cheeks like stinging...

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New King Alfred’s Way bikepacking route from Cycling UK

Sewing together a real patchwork of different landscapes from chalk downs to...

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Iceland Divide: The land of ice and fire

When we saw London-based off-road enthusiast Natt Williams preparing for...

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Bikepacking the Norfolk Rail Trails

Matt Bark and his pals James and James embark on a rail journey with a...

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Remembering the Grenzsteintrophy 2018

I’d spent some time riding in Germany in the last year and had a memory of an...

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Dirty Kanzelled: Peak District Edition

Riders from around the globe pedalled out the miles on May 30th for Dirty...

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Dirty Kanzelled: Bristol Edition

The Dirty Kanza is a focal point of many international riders’ gravel...

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A mini adventure to Mark Cottage Bothy

There’s nothing like a country-wide lockdown to get you thinking about...

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Bikepacking in the Cairngorms

Andrew Cullen resides in Edinburgh and most weekends, hops on the train with...

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PEdALED Atlas Mountain Race 2020

If you’re an ultra-endurance fan, you’ll be aware of the Silk Road...

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The Analog Kids

One of the best things about being a parent is having a good time with your...

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Shimano Dura-Ace: Beyond the Road

Shimano are the dominant component supplier at Worldtour level with a 66.7%...

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Further – A Different Kind Of Race

I don’t really know how I ended up on the start line of Further, with what...

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THE NOT KNOWING – An Adventure in Tajikistan

An adventure exploring the wilderness of the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan...

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Ultimate Gravel Racer Build – Cervelo Aspero

The brief was simple. Build the most capable and fastest gravel bike possible....

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Frontier 300 – Coast to Coast, Gravel Style

When Focal Events, the creative force behind gravel classics like Dirty Reiver...

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Phoenix Cycleworks: Suffolk Gravel

Suffolk is hardly the first place you’d pick when thinking of gravel...

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Wildcat 100: The race that never was

From the Mid-West to Mid-Wales… Back in 2014 Gravel bikes hadn’t...

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Scope Backyard Breakaway

The 29th September marked the date for the inaugural Backyard Breakaway, hosted...

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3 Peaks Cyclocross with Vitus

The 3 Peaks Cyclocross attracts competitors every year from all over the world....

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Meet the Maker: Straight Cut

In a bright, top floor studio on a cobbled back street of Edinburgh’s New...

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8bar Pathfinder

Pathfinder: The slightly different Gravel Event No planned route…just follow...

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Bombtrack Groundwork 2019

At ADVNTR we love the big glossy bike shows, meeting up with the...

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Beerpacking in Slovenia and Croatia

Another contribution from Alpine Gravel Junkie, Gairy. Having built up his...

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Dirty Reiver 2019

Dirty Reiver 2019 As recounted by the pocket dynamo otherwise known as Cheshire...

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Alpkit x Sonder Visit

Say hello, wave goodbye We have had a Sonder Camino on test for over 600km. All...

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Yorkshire True Grit – Dark Skies 2019

Yorkshire True Grit – Dark Skies Regular readers will probably be familiar...

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Fatbiking in Lapland with Roll Outdoors

A Winter’s Tale I last visited Rovaniemi in 2015, to take part in the...

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Rapha Prestige Manchester

Rapha Prestige Rapha Prestige is a worldwide series of unsupported and...

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Dirty Boar 2018

Now in its second year, the Dirty Boar is the Belgian take on the dropped-bar,...

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The Call Of The Wild – Bike Corris

“Deep in the forest a call was sounding, and as often as he heard this call,...

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GRINDURO & THE 3T EXPLORO

A dream come true? Imagine the situation. You have been engaged as a...

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Grinduro Scotland 2018

So, just what is Grinduro, an overhyped American export, or the best thing to...

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Event Report: Gritfest

Gritfest 2018 was a two day, stage race. Headquarters was in an out of the way...

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Yorkshire True Grit 2018

The dust has settled on the third Yorkshire True Grit and this year there was a...

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Report: The Distance – Derbyshire

A weekend break in Derbyshire We all know that the point of a holiday is to...

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Event Report: This Is Not A Tour 400KM Audax

Another ride report from on of our regular contributors, The Cheshire Cat, who...

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Hitting The Gravel

Patrick Kinsella pops his gravel biking cherry by joining ADVNTR founders,...

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Ride Report: The Dirty Reiver

Now in its third year, the Dirty Reiver 200 is firmly established as THE long...

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Snow, Ice and Pork Pies

The Cambridge Pork Pie Run is a 200km Audax taking riders from Girton, (just...

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Hundreds of switchbacks: Germany to Italy

ADVNTR Regular, Bengt Feil decides to stick to the asphalt and climb the iconic...

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Almond trees and singletrack: Serra de Tramuntana

Typically a destination for road cycling, Mallorca has a lot to offer those who...

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London-Edinburgh-London 1400km Audax

Since its inception in 1989, London-Edinburgh-London has been Audax UK‘s...

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Tour Divide

“Tour Divide is an ultra-cycling challenge to pedal solo and...

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Bearbones Café Racer: Debrief

A week ago we told you about our Café Racer plans, and we all know about the...

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Bearbones Café Racer: The Planning Process

Back in November we posted news on a bikepacking event taking place in January...

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Rovaniemi 66: Winter Fat Bike Race

Rovaniemi in Finland is most famous for being the “Official home of...

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The Bear Bones 200 Bikepacking Adventure

The Bear Bones 200 is not so much a route as a concept. Since it’s...

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Suffolk Byways Audax – 30th September 2017 – A mini adventure

Today, I dipped my toes into the arcane world of the ‘Audax‘. I...

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Aggregate 100 Gravel Enduro

I’ve kind of fallen for the Gravel/Adventure/Dropbar-lunacy scene. The...

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From Dalby to the Moors

Break out from the trail centre and see the wider world on this 100km ride...

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The Peddars Way

Living in East Anglia you have to accept the trails you’ve got, there are...

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