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 …
It rains in Costa Rica. a lot. Combine that rainfall with mountains, which are in abundance and it can only mean one thing, rivers, and plenty of them. Forty of them are described in the guidebook, Chasing Jaguars, but there are plenty more, some have been run, some not. We took two weeks out to …
We scrapped down the run in to this first rapid, but when the river steepens and tightens up, that low flow makes for perfect conditions for this Italien like run. Coming round the corner we were greeted by this view, where to go? Initially I took us left, but Mike spied a route river right …
Have we mentioned we like hills and mountains, seems you can grow stuff on them as well as paddle and ride down them. We visited Cafe Cristina in the hills above Paraiso and took a tour to see how our favourite morning drink took shape. Organically grown at a height of 1300metres, coffee produced here …
Leave your camera with native Costa Rican and this is the sort of shot you can expect to find on your memory card when you return. Luckily Juan Carlos also took some pictures of us falling off the Catarata Poza Azul, the blue pool waterfall! The Poza Azul is a trib of the Lower Sarapiqui. …
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 …