Away from the bike park that makes Whistler so famous lie a wealth of trails just waiting to be explored, if you get to know some of the locals you get the benefit of riding the best trails without the hastle of route finding. Locals earlier this summer If you bump into these two in the line …
Disneyland is a ride I have wanted to do for years , I’ve seen pictures taken up top with Howe Sound in the background in magazines and calendars and it’s one of those rides that was on my hit list., Kira booked the heli and we soon had the five we needed for the trip, Kira, Noel, …
The only sound is the tinging of my disc brakes as they cool down, below me I hear, "helooooooooooo Mr. Bear" as Duncan hollers to the local residents of the woods in an effort to avoid a bear / mountain bike confrontation. We are screaming down the singletrack to the trail end where earlier on …
by Bob Scott Bob Scott is semi retired living in Scotland, running a B&B with wife Olive, a horse called Jackie and the laziest dog I know, Jess. I hope I have half of Bob's enthusiasm when I reach his stage in life. In January of this year Bob rode his Honda varadero motorbike from …
Things can go wrong very, very quickly on a river. Nearing the end of the run I split the group into two groups of three, the eddies above the Linn are few and far between at this level, I don't want the group arriving as a six, all fighting for for space. I drop down …
Somewhere in the north of England there is a wave or perhaps not. Lyndon’s Mythical wave works at certain high river levels, ones man’s flood is another man’s surf wave.
Val Sesia With precious little in the way of snow in the Alps this winter and a text from tthe Ted I master saying all the snow had long gone we set off to Italy wondering what we were going to paddle, surely it couldn't be lower than last year! Thankfully some rain early in …
Rich Holmes, our correspondent is South Wales spotted this when fettling his bike, hmmm, is that a crack I see in the middle of the drop out with a little poking around the second photograph is the end result. Check your bike regularly for wear, tear and just about to give up the ghost bits of …
19 riders dusted off their hangovers and hit the trail at Penmachno early Saturday morning. First and best blood of the day fell to Driller, hammering through a single track section he lost it on a left hander, nose wheeling for a short stretch before the front wheel dropped to the edge of the trail, stopped …
Saturday morning and after a good start to the day its was only ever gona go downhill from there, driving upto Hamsterley for a day on the downhill course using the uplift. 25 English pounds secures 10 uplifts which is ample enough to wear most riders out, with the course spliiting into multiple runs after …