I hate the term “bucket list“. When did saying “that looks cool, I’d like to try that one day if the chance arises” become compressed into a buzzword that infers that you’re going to die so you’d better do all this shit you may not do otherwise, like if you were immortal so you didn’t really need to do anything just yet? And why is it muttered mainly by wankers?

You won’t hear bucket list uttered by the Bombtrack guys, they are too busy building sweet bikes and hopping across the world just doing the cool events. I can attest to their passion for a party with a good long ride thrown in. Here they send their Dutch pro cyclocrosser Gosse van der Meer to Scotland’s Dirty Reiver, a 200km gravel race that really looks cool, and something we’d like to try one day if we get the chance.