It's Only A Hill

 One year on and we are back for some more downhill action, straight onto the lobster pots for a day on the trails The Furnicular – route to all trails down.      The view looking out from the bar….. and the view looking into the bar      We're glad this boy doesn't ride [...]

Sat around the dinner table in the Goat Shed, the "standard" accomodation offered by Trail Addiction, luxurious by any, well my standards, the guides are trying to convince a bunch of us into forgoing a day of uplift in favour of pedalling uphill for 10K tomorrow. The down more than compensates for the climb they [...]

Head down, pedalling fast, riding into the wind, cinders crunch beneath our tyres, steel rails long since removed. Eyes search for unseen fast approaching hazards, trail flat, black, snaking, disappearing into the darkness.  I recall from a previous ride that the trail has dropped down the hillside in one place, where?  I can't remember. Lights [...]

Ah, Spain, this time dry, sunny and hot! Si wanted to take us higher up to start some of the rides but snow was still an issue on the higher slopes. All rides seem to start with the inevitable climb but as ever in these parts the downhill more than makes up for some of [...]

A sunny day in the Mendips provides our Saturday entertainment, riding from Sal's soon has us climbing up into the hills before hitting the first of many sections of sweet singletrack. The dry conditions that have kept us out of our boats have left the trails in perfect condition, I last rode the trail below [...]

Nidderdale, this ride has been featured a few times in the magazines and is one of the original MBR “killer loops”.  It’s a classic and I would rate it against pretty much any ride you care to mention in the UK and further afield for that matter.  We stayed in the bunkhouse overlooking the Scar [...]

is wet, just like back home, so much for a week in the sun, landing at Malaga after flying from Liverpool, the pilot must have taken a wrong turn, surely! Grey sky and rain, this is not what we had paid up for.  Thankfully we were signed up for an uplift week with Freeridespain. Run [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve been up to Hamsterley and they have been busy with a bunch of steep trails to fly down.  Give Craig a call on 0779 551 4251 and go see for yourself. Uplifts start about 11ish with 5 taking you to about 1.30, have a break for lunch, 5 more [...]

Sometimes when there’s nothing better to do we go for a ride, it’s dirty job but someone has to do it! A local bridleway goes through a golf course, we interupted the early morning “sport” and demonstrated what you could be doing, instead of spoiling a good walk. Stainburn rocks, in more way than one. [...]

Billed as Atlas Descent we were surprised by just how much ‘up’ there could be in a descent, this is Exodus’s longest running bike trip and was the last one of this season due to the summer temperatures making it unfeasiblly hot later in the year, but now we just have to endure the wind [...]