Category: TRIP
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Ty Tuesdays: Freedom Band Live @ The Yard, Raglan
Click or not: Ty Tuesdays: Freedom Band Live @ The Yard, RaglanFreedom. It’s good for me, but not for you. That’s been the attitude of the inhabitants of this country (and the world) for the last, oh, three or so years, coincidentally. “You can have your freedom, but only if you do as you’re told.” The right to have autonomy over ourselves is now controlled by… …
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GAËLLE ON TOUR: THE CARPATHIAN TRAVERSE
Click or not: GAËLLE ON TOUR: THE CARPATHIAN TRAVERSEIn 2019 Gaëlle and her ARISE TOUR bike headed out for a staggering loop around Europe, covering all its countries within. From the heat of southern Spain to the frozen coast of Scandinavia, while traversing the Carpathians somewhere in the middle, home to brown bears and wolves. Crossing the Carpathian and following its mountain curve… …
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Drovers
Click or not: DroversFilmed on the ‘Drovers Trail’, a new 331 km-long gravel bikepacking route spanning almost the entirety of Highland Perthshire, ‘Drovers‘ tells the story of the ancient drove roads, an important part of Scottish history, which inspired Scotland’s greatest writers like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. The new video from round the world singlespeed cyclist… …
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Café du Cycliste brings the Bikepacking Bible
Click or not: Café du Cycliste brings the Bikepacking BibleI’ve owned a Café du Cycliste lightweight jacket for a couple of years now, and while it’s probably one of my least-used pieces of kit, it’s also one of my favourites. Beautifully made, functional and great looking. They know their stuff. So browsing through their new Ultimate Guide To Bikepacking and Adventure Cycling you get… …
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The Analog Kids
Click or not: The Analog KidsClem Shovel is a good guy. Quiet, friendly, unassuming, and a hell of a bike rider, I first met him on my first trip to the Classics in 2012 when he drove the support car, handed out bidons (he’s French after all, no bottles there) and used brute force and a big hammer to try… …
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No Stone Unturned
Click or not: No Stone UnturnedOur old friend, ex-Wellingtonian/German/Scotsman Markus Stitz is off on another crazy adventure, preparing for the Silk Road Mountain race by taking a little pedal around Kyrgyzstan. But what are those things on the back of your bike, Markus? Gears? The shame. While I was very keen to document my journey, I wanted any photography… …
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Six Day Shadows
Click or not: Six Day ShadowsIt was the first time I’d seen a mosh pit at a bike race; the infield packed with nocturnal partisan party people determined to drink Ghent dry while the distorted PA blasted everything from ‘Sweet Caroline’ to the cheesiest ‘oompah’, a playlist that hasn’t required a refresh since the early 80s, the assembled choir chant… …
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Fluid Trails
Click or not: Fluid TrailsFluid Trails follows three adventurers as they make their way across Kahurangi National Park, New Zealand via mountain bike and packraft. The park is an ancient place of rare birds, rolling alpine tussock, earthquake shattered peaks and towering podocarp forests. A place of colonialism gold fever and endeavour. A place of cascading rivers and winding… …