![Come to the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling for a great long weekend of Bikepacking](https://markusstitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_8701-590x140.jpg)
Readers of this fine blog will possibly agree that bikepacking is growing in popularity worldwide, but particularly in Scotland. We have some of the best access…
![Rudie and Colin](https://markusstitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/img_5651-590x140.jpg)
It’s Saturday morning. I’ll put on my rain jacket. A quick sprint to the train station, and I am off on the train to North…
![Capital Trail now supported by Ordnance Survey and featured on PedalingNowhere, Bikepackersmag and more sites](https://markusstitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/img_7583-590x140.jpg)
As the inaugural ride comes closer, it is great to see such great exposure for the Capital Trail in advance. Thanks to Logan from PedalingNowhere…
![The Edinburgh Festival of Cycling 2015 has been launched](https://markusstitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img_3603-590x140.jpg)
I was lucky to be part of something pretty special yesterday. About 150 primary school kids and their parents were accompanied by Team Scotland cyclists…
![The Capital Trail - the story so far](https://markusstitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2014-04-21-19-10-42-1-590x140.jpg)
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…