It’s not you, it’s me. I still love you, Mountain Bike. Rocky descents that get the adrenaline flowing, a technical climb, a flowy singletrack section… But, I’ve changed…...
Sandblasted Beach Race Fancy 90 minutes of racing with a difference this November? Focal Events, the brains behind The Dirty Reiver, have just announced SandBlasted! A new beach racing in...
Dismissed by many as a passing fad, the nascent ‘gravel’ scene in the UK definitely looks like it is here for the long term. Unlike other industry led fads and niches (the...
I am a great fan of grass roots events, as opposed to the more corporate events, that fill the cycling calendar. Yorkshire True Grit looked as if it would tick all the boxes and I was...
Keilder really is a long way away from Suffolk. Going to sleep at midnight and then waking up at 4:00am to drive to an event really isn’t cool. Riding on gravel descents on a bike, any...
What is Gravel Rocks? Myself and veteran bikepacker-cum-ditch dweller, Nigel were made aware of a ‘gravel focused’ training camp organised by the guys behind the Dirty Reiver 200 event....