Mountainbiking and bikepacking in Sussex and further afield
Tour Divide 2022 – Day 4 – Whitefish to Bigfork Date: 13-06-22 Mileage: 45.14 miles Cumulative mileage: 329.77 miles Climbing: 1867 feet Cumulative climbing: 19708 feet Elapsed time: 5hrs 22min Riding time: 4hrs 02min This was effectively a half day brought about by the weather forecast, even though we ‘only’ rode 45 miles it felt…
Tour Divide 2022 – Day 3 – Fernie to Whitefish Date: 12-06-22 Mileage: 118.78 miles Cumulative mileage: 284.63 miles Climbing: 4754 feet Cumulative climbing: 17841 feet Elapsed time: 14hrs 59min Riding time: 10hrs 25min We left Red Tree Lodge and headed into downtown Fernie in search of food and bike shops. The previous day had…
Tour Divide 2022 – Day 2 – Elkford to Fernie Date: 11-06-22 Mileage: 60.87 miles Cumulative mileage: 165.85 miles Climbing: 5459 feet Cumulative climbing: 13087 feet Elapsed time: 12hrs 32min Riding time: 9hrs 10min We awoke to rain and as we were packing up we realised that all the other TD racers had actually long…
Date: 10-06-22 Mileage: 104.98 miles Cumulative mileage: 104.98 miles Climbing: 7628 feet Cumulative climbing: 7628 feet Elapsed time: 14hrs 28min Riding time: 11hrs 55min The night before the start we stayed at the Douglas fir resort Banff, a luxury spot, shame we didn’t arrive till quite late the night before though, didn’t really get much…
I know everyone likes a good kit list, and it’s fair to say there is no right or wrong with this, you have to take what is comfortable for you. I spent 18 months refining my kit and making sure I had all the clothes I needed to keep myself warm and dry for all…
A recent look on the equipment page on Strava revealed that my Travers and I have now spent 5000 miles together. It’s quite interesting to look back at the original photos and see how the kit on the bike has changed since it first turned up in November 2015, but I can safely say that…
I thought I’d give a breakdown of my bikepacking toolkit. This is the full set up I took for the Tour Divide, so in reality there may be a little more there than you would use for a couple of days riding round Wales, but in the end I had to know that I could…
Tour Divide Diary Day 32, to the end of the trip….. 26/07/16 So this bit just ties up the rest of the trip, essentially we were killing time till our flight back. The right hand side of my face had swollen right up and the toothache got so bad I had to give in and…
Tour Divide Diary Day 31 25/07/16 Moab Slickrock Trail 10.2 miles 1660 feet of climbing As a mountainbiker from the UK my first experience of the Slickrock was in the 1994 film Tread:The Movie. In the film it says “once a cool thing is done, it cannot be undone”, well I was looking for a…
Tour Divide Diary Day 30 24/07/16 It was only 149 miles to Moab and we got that done pretty early in the morning. There were yet more incredibly straight, incredibly tedious roads to drive, but once we were getting deeper into Utah the scenery started to get more interesting and we were both really excited…
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