Mountainbiking and bikepacking in Sussex and further afield
Tour Divide Diary Day 4 28/06/16 Fernie to Eureka 69.3 miles 2109 feet of climbing Cumulative 226 miles 10639 feet of climbing Today we actually set an alarm so we could get up and out earlier, we’d decided to buy breakfast rather than cook it and riding past Starbucks we saw a couple of construction…
Tour Divide Diary Day 3 27/06/16 Elkford to Fernie 48.1 miles 1709.3 feet of climbing Cumulative 157 miles 8530 feet of climbing Starting off from the campsite in Elkford, it was a great spot, so nice to have a shower and soothe the aching muscles. The road out of Elkford, Fording River Road, it was…
Tour Divide Diary Day 2 26/06/16 Boulton Creek to Elkford 50.1 miles 2618.1 feet of climbing Cumulative 108 miles 6820 feet of climbing We stayed at the campsite near the lake, when we got up we went back up to the Boulton Creek Trading Post and bought ourselves water and supplies for the day. We…
Tour Divide Diary Day 1 25/06/16 Banff to Boulton Creek 58.8 miles 4202.8 feet of climbing We ended up getting into the motel in Calgary pretty late after picking up the hire car. It was cold, chucking it down with rain and we eventually got the bike boxes through the airport to the car hire…
The Welsh Ride Thing last year was my first foray into multi day bikepacking, and it was such an amazing weekend. Well how things change in a year, now I’m on the countdown to riding the Tour Divide and this years event was a good excuse for Tom and I to test our bikes with…
This was going to be an interesting weekend, first time away somewhere more remote for Tom, first time loaded up on my new Travers and first time for us both with what we imagine to be our Tour Divide kit shared between us. The weather forecast was horrific, but the reality was somewhat better, initially…
The Great Divide Route is the world’s longest off-pavement cycling route, it covers 2745 miles. The route is highlighted by long dirt roads and jeep trails that wend their way through forgotten passes of the Continental Divide. It travels through Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, and the United States of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,…
I’d been longing to do the Coast to Coast since Tim Woodcock put his book of the route out in the mid nineties. I’ve never quite managed it and something has always ‘come up’, so when Simon suggested we do it this year dates went in the diary, a rabble of four was assembled and…
Apologies, this is going to be a mega blog! I’ve been playing at bivvying with the boys for over a year now. Slowly I’m refining my kit, stuff is slowly getting lighter, more functional and better packed. This was my first multi day trip and I was a bit nervous about it as it was…
So I’ve been making a few changes to the spec of my main bike, the awesome Kinesis Sync, recently. Mainly for an upcoming mega-project I have my eye on. This weekend the the first chance I’ve had to go and put it through it’s paces with it’s new Kinesis IX rigid carbon forks. It feels…
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