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Routes

A hand picked selection of routes and GPX files for your delectation.

Events, Featured, Journal, Routes

The Zetland Cycles Low Key Lakes Weekender

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

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Glampacking on the IOW – Bikepacking done different.

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

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The Nelson Trees Interview

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

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The Service Course Gravel Bonanza

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

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Bucket List Rides, Featured, Journal, Routes

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

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

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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 wheel bike weaving...

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SRMR – It’s all about Perspective

The weekend of August 14th 2021 was fully loaded with bikepacking races kicking off right across...

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Leeds to Lyme Regis – Seeking out Simple Wonders

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

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Journal, Routes

FKT on the Badger Divide

  Not more than a month following on from an incredible top 10 position on the Dales Divide,...

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Bikepacking Gear, Featured, Interviews, Journal, Reviews, Routes

Tour de Restrap: overnighter in the Yorkshire Dales

Restrap have been there seemingly since the genesis of the bikepacking boom that we’re...

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Bike Reviews, Featured, Reviews, Routes

Fairlight Faran 2.0 long term review

With the second generation of the Fairlight Faran being released in 2020, we were keen to take a...

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Bucket List Rides, Featured, Journal, News, Routes

New 7,600km European Divide Trail launched

From the Artic Ocean at Grense Jakobselv in Norway to Cabo St Vincent in Portugal, this is the...

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48 hours on the Dales Divide

After tackling the first major British ultra since the Covid outbreak, we caught up with Marcus...

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The Central Highlander

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

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Bucket List Rides, Featured, News, Routes

West Kernow Way: new bikepacking route in Cornwall announced

From the team that brought us the Great North Trail in 2019 and the popular King Alfred’s Way...

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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 spontaneous plan saw us...

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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...

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Glasgow Inner Circle gravel route

The Glasgow Inner Circle route is a 200km (3,000m+) off-road mega ride that circumnavigates the...

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Strade komoot: Spring Classic Season Opener

Fan of the Strade Bianche? Love watching the Spring Classics? Enjoy spicing up your rides with...

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Touring the North West Scotland Coast: Fixed

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

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Bucket List Rides, Featured, Routes

Bikepacking the Length of Spain

During the Covid-19 pandemic, I’ve found myself dreaming of bikepacking adventures more than...

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Restrap launches online gravel route catalogue

Independant British bike bag brand Restrap have just launched an online route catalogue for gravel...

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Nic’s Festive 500: A south Wales grand gravel adventure

Christmas in Wales 2020, like many places across the UK, was in Tier 4 lockdown, and so with no...

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Official UK off-road bikepacking routes for your next trip

There’s no denying it; 2020 has been a crap year for anyone that loves travelling, even if...

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Festive 500 off-road? A filthy end of year goal

Most cyclists will have heard of Rapha’s Festive 500, the challenge to ride 500 kilometres...

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Bucket List Rides, Events, News, Routes

Gravelfoyle: making Scotland’s hottest gravel destination official

In Spring 2021 Bike Trossachs, a local community interest company, is set to officially launch...

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Bike Reviews, Featured, Interviews, Routes

Stayer Groadinger UG gravel bike review

Stayer Cycles; East London’s self-proclaimed indie bike builders, cycling power couple, and...

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Daypacking with Dutch photographer Erwin Sikkens

Some new fad? The next big thing? No, not really, just a brilliant tongue-in-cheek way to describe...

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News, Routes

Short Film: Unhurried — The John Muir Way

Introducing ‘Unhurried’, a new film celebrating the experience of bikepacking Scotland...

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Bike Reviews, Featured, Reviews, Routes

Temple Adventure Disc 1 review

Go back a few years, or even decades, and the classic style of the Temple Cycles Adventure Disc 1...

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Bucket List Rides, Featured, Journal, Routes

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

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

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Racing the inaugural Great British Escapade

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

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Journal, Routes

Short Film: Drovers, PerthshireGravel.com

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

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Into the storm: Black Mountain overnighter

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

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The Dirty Reiver Regional

Missing out on the Dirty Reiver this year? Why not take part in the Dirty Reiver Regional, with...

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Bristol Green Belt 360 gravel route

Born out of doorstep exploring during the UK’s lockdown, the Bristol Green Belt 360 gravel...

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Bucket List Rides, Featured, Journal, News, Routes

New King Alfred’s Way bikepacking route from Cycling UK

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

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Iceland Divide: The land of ice and fire

When we saw London-based off-road enthusiast Natt Williams preparing for Iceland and the trip of a...

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Guides, Routes

Lost Lanes North; your latest ride inspiration

The original Lost Lanes, Lost Lanes West, Wales and now North; author and host of ‘The Bike...

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Bikepacking in the Cairngorms

Andrew Cullen resides in Edinburgh and most weekends, hops on the train with his friends to get in...

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Hundreds of switchbacks: Germany to Italy

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

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London-Edinburgh-London 1400km Audax

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

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Bucket List Rides, Journal, Routes

Tour Divide

“Tour Divide is an ultra-cycling challenge to pedal solo and self-supported the length of...

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Journal, Routes

From Dalby to the Moors

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

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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...

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