This Thursday we had to celebrate Jay’s new bike purchase, a Jones singlespeed, a perfect machine for bikepacking in Scotland. On a cold but clear day we retraced our tyre tracks in the Beecraigs Country Park and rode the bit of the Central Belter I am possibly most excited about. My…
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After 2014 and 2015 I was once again on the train up to Inverness, for a third time Strathpuffer. Equipped with a new set of wheels and tyres, thanks to Halo and Schwalbe UK, I was looking forward to the best conditions you can encounter in one of the world’s toughest…
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Hier nun ein Post auf deutsch. Da der Capital der perfekte Einstieg zum Bikepacking in Schottland ist, habe ich das Video nun auch in einer deutschsprachigen Version veröffentlicht. Mehr Informationen in Englisch findest du hier, ich werde in den nächsten Wochen an einer deutschsprachigen Beschreibung arbeiten. Für Fragen nutzt einfach…
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Great weather, great friends, that’s a very short resume from me from the weekend. I was very pleased to see about 40 people lining up on Portobello Beach on Saturday morning, and we couldn’t have hoped for better weather. Having raced the course last year my intention was to ride…
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I was looking around me and felt pretty lost, somewhere in West Lothian. So close to Edinburgh, yet in this moment it felt further away from civilisation than ever. Shouldering the bike I climbed the northern side of West Cairn Hill, a steep slope, looking back in awe, making very…
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