Tag: scotland
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Bombtrack At The Dirty Reiver
Click or not: Bombtrack At The Dirty ReiverThe good crew from Bombtrack are nothing if not mavericks when it comes to travelling afar for the biggest, longest and toughest gravel/adventure events in Europe. I have known Clem for a few years now and was lucky enough to meet owner Manuel and legend Stefan ‘Fish’ Vis at the Malteni Bootleggers in Belgium in… …
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Beulah
Click or not: BeulahThe Scottish highlands are an inhospitable place, barren, cold, desolation. The perfect backdrop for a bikepacking trip filled with friends, fires, rain, water and a boat called Beulah. This will make you want to go, anywhere, now. Beulah, a collaborative film between Pannier and Brother Cycles, follows their unsupported cycle trip to explore the Cape… …
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Cold Lonely And Festive
Click or not: Cold Lonely And FestiveIs there a more polarising cycling company than Rapha? Never has a manufacturer of clothing for riding bikes in been so lambasted, mainly for their high prices, but also for the moody videos they produce which are seen by some as elitist, too hip or just plain wanky. Personally I love their gear, even if I… …
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SHOT: Whose Idea?
Click or not: SHOT: Whose Idea?We all have that friend that is up for anything, regardless of your idea. That friend for me is Nipper. It was simple and seemed so easy; drive out two hours, hike our bikes up to 1,438 metres and ride back down. We hadn’t heard of anyone riding this mountain, An Teallach, so Nipper and I took on the… …
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Scottland [sic]
Click or not: Scottland [sic]It’s always curiously incongruous, setting footage of cyclists riding expensive and meticulously refined pieces of engineering to the contrived earnestness of pop-folk music. It seems that somewhere in the past five years the saccharine crooning of sandal toting beard brewers became synonymous with the versatility of the modern trail bike. Irony aside, I’ll buy whatever… …