At 00.02 on the morning of the 17th of September 2011 I received a text from Daz Clarkson, having just completed one of his life ambitions, the Stikine, hats off to him! here's his first thoughts committed to laptop………. "Haunted shadows awake me, a serpent cuts the land. Burning with each beat of my heart. …
With Le Mans moving from its usual springtime slot in the calendar to September, Les sets his sights on another trip, some 15 years after his last visit, his business, Short Stop Tyres ( 01704 573022 ) keeps him busy early in the year fitting tyres and fettling bikes for the summer. I could hardly let …
by Jason, With their Italy trip down the pan due to this years low water levels in Val Sesia, the boys set their sights on the more obscure and further north, just south of the arctic circle, Iceland. 5 things to know: 1. However long you go for, it won't be long enough. Ten days …
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 …
Verdon Gorge It's late evening, warm, dark and I am behind the wheel of Pete's Skoda following two other cars along the D952. It takes forty five minutes to drive the distance we have just paddled that took the same time plus eight hours. I don't want to get left behind, if only because the lead car …
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 …
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 …