Although I’m a great fan of peace and quiet and the natural sounds of the great outdoors, I do occasionally enjoy a bit of background noise. Sometimes it might be music, other times a podcast or an audio book, it doesn’t really matter because up until recently the problem has always been the same … […]
I don’t know this for sure but I’m willing to wager a big bag of Tangfastics that since its introduction, the Wildcat Gear Mountain Lion has probably become the most popular piece of bar mounted bikepacking luggage in the UK. It’s simple, lightweight and holds your precious belongings very securely no matter how rad and […]
Brant Richards is a name many of you will be familiar with. He’s been involved with mountain bikes in one way or another since their inception in the UK. Over the years he’s been responsible for numerous designs, many of which we’re happily riding round the countryside. If the snippets we’ve seen so far prove […]
A good number of months ago there was a post here about something called the Thermartex blanket. It was a ‘first look’ affair in which I promised to go away and see whether a seemingly thin, lightweight piece of material could actually help you stay warm. Well, nine months on … I’m back.I have to say that […]
You can’t deny that spending the night in a tent rather than under a tarp produces quite a different experience. One isn’t better than the other, it’s just different. Some people don’t like sleeping under tarps, for whatever reason they prefer to spend their nights ‘in’ rather than ‘under’. However, many of these people probably don’t […]
A while ago I fitted a Velocity Dually rim to the front of my Stooge. I coaxed a 2.4 X-King on and oohed and aahed at the extra volume the 45mm wide rim magically found hidden deep within the tyres carcass. I took a couple of pictures, wrote a few words and rode the thing […]
I can’t believe there can be many people reading this who haven’t heard of Alpkit. Many of you will own at least one item of ‘Alpkit’ and some of you will have had the pleasure of chatting or riding with them at the WRT or BB200 … so, I thought it might be nice to […]
If it’s possible to feel sorry for inanimate objects, then I feel sorry for windshields. They really can’t win, first they get told to do one thing, then told to do another … it really is no wonder that windshields account for the highest number of suicides amongst outdoor equipment in the UK.At first sight […]
Believing everything you read in the paper, see on TV or hear on the radio isn’t always a good thing, luckily not everyone does believe because if they did, 76 riders wouldn’t have turned up to ride the Bear Bones Ford Fiesta … they’d have stayed at home waiting to be washed away by epic […]
After 4 years the BB 200 is no more. While the heading might sound a little doom and gloom, it shouldn’t. In October you’ll still have the opportunity to abuse yourself and your bike but it will be in the form of the Bear Bones Reliability Trial (BBRT). The BBRT will differ from the BB200 […]