Tag: 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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Built To Last: A Journey Through The Cateran Ecomuseum
Click or not: Built To Last: A Journey Through The Cateran EcomuseumOur 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
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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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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Bombtrack At The Dirty Reiver
Click or not: Bombtrack At The Dirty ReiverI 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… …
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Roubaix: Anatomy Of A Shithole
Click or not: Roubaix: Anatomy Of A ShitholeOne of the best, most memorable (and repeated) lines from the movie In Bruges is “it’s a shithole”. Of course this isn’t true; Bruges (or Brugge in the local parlance) is a beautiful city with many a charm to captivate the senses. On my third visit to the city running a Malteni Classics Tour in 2015, the shithole… …