Tag: Bikepacking

  • Built To Last: A Journey Through The Cateran Ecomuseum

    Built To Last: A Journey Through The Cateran Ecomuseum

    Our mad ex-Welly mate Markus ‘Magnus’ Stitz has been setting the bar high for long rides and adventures––that most would deem crazy––for a long while now. He’s also stepped up his film-making and storytelling game in a big way, and combines the two to bring his big world and the many interesting characters he meets…

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  • GAËLLE ON TOUR: THE CARPATHIAN TRAVERSE

    GAËLLE ON TOUR: THE CARPATHIAN TRAVERSE

    In 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

    Drovers

    Filmed 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

    Café du Cycliste brings the Bikepacking Bible

    I’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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  • OPEN U.P. your cheque-book to the Lord

    OPEN U.P. your cheque-book to the Lord

      The dentist, the luddite and the Superbike.   Glossary here. I suspect it’s no coincidence that OPEN make bicycles with model names like OPEN UP and OPEN WIDE. If this is not a clever subliminal marketing attempt at the well-healed “dentist” portion of the bicycle market, then I don’t know what is. Unfortunately I do…

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  • The Analog Kids

    The Analog Kids

    Clem 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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  • Big Bike Film Night Is Back!

    Big Bike Film Night Is Back!

    The Big Bike Film Night returns for 2020 and is pedalling across New Zealand from February to May. Described as a feast of short films devoted to the bicycle and all who ride it, the Big Bike Film Night is a collection of international and New Zealand movies specifically selected by Taupo based ‘Film Pedlar’/…

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  • Sublime To Ridiculous

    Sublime To Ridiculous

    Bicycles offer the greatest escapism I have experienced anywhere. Ever. You can do your best thinking or absolutely no thinking at all while turning pedals. Throw wilderness into the mix and you have utter bliss. PSA: It’s not always sublime. Let’s not look at it through rose tinted Prisms. Sometimes it is completely ridiculous. Sometimes…

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