Thanks to Stuart for a treasure chest of great material in the Bear Bones blog. I have just linked to his two-part report on the Rudy Fat 29+.

I have added a few 'specials' under Features (in the top menu) - one for beginners, one for travel tips and one for trail skills.

If there is anything else that ought to be bundled in your opinion, please let me know.

Bookmarked already, Ian. It will come in handy for something I have in mind pretty soon. :) EDIT: 'soon' as in 'right now'.

Incidentally, anyone can post links to their own pages (trip reports, gear reviews etc.) on http://trails-tours.com/sites

I've updated the site to include a section for adventure races. No doubt this category will grow fairly swiftly. As I said elsewhere, I'm more of a recreational rider myself - but race itineraries and good routes go hand in hand. And racing gear is interesting to anyone with a UL slant. Additionally...

We now already have well over 100 articles with hundreds of links to external resources on http://trails-tours.com In view of that, I've tried to tweak presentation so that research functionality is more easily found (features like browsing by topic). First and foremost, the site remains a webzine f...

You can post links to your own trip reports on Trails and Tours, now - blog posts, live tweets, theads here... whatever. You can find the right page in the top menu under Features -> Your trips and tips

I also added some advanced searching functionality that shows up when (possibly) needed.

I've cleaned up the software and tweaked things a bit. The site should be much faster now.

I'm really glad you enjoy it - I have added a link to this site now. And there is a really good, long film going up in half and hour.

Hi all, I'm new here - and I hope it's not rude for me to start off by plugging my own site. It's a (free, of course) 'webzine' for bikepackers - for wont of a better description. But you will get the drift if you visit. You can find it here: http://trails-tours.com The site is updated very frequent...