It has been five years since I first completed the Highland Trail 550 route in 2016 in 4 days 21 hours 35 minutes. At risk of sounding cliche, it was a life changing experience. Aside from having near perfect weather and conditions, there was a shared sense amongst the riders …
As with everything in 2020, endurance cycling events have been impacted by COVID-19. There was no Bear Bones group start this year. Instead, we received the top secret GPX crafted by Stu @ Bear Bones and we were given the option to ride any time in October, starting from any …
I rolled into Tyndrum on Thursday morning at 06:35 after riding through the night to finish under five days where I eagerly joined the other Highland Trail 2016 finishers for hours of storytelling over Scottish breakfasts, cakes, coffees at the Real Food Cafe in Tyndrum. A strong bond had developed between the riders whilst riding and it was cemented by our post mortem huddle, a sense of mutual …
Sometime towards the end of 2015, I made two impulsive decisions: I bought a piece of titanium with fat wheels named Rasputin without considering …
I somehow overlooked the email from Stu about the Bear Bones Bach to Bach winter event, but I saw the bothy photos popping up on the forum and I got a bit jealous. I had a few spare holidays rolled over from 2015, so I decided to get back out to Wales for a long weekend of bothy biking.
After the bikepacking ‘getaway’ in Spain in Sept, I thought I’d treat Jenny to a surprise weekend away. I had all intentions of finding us a luxurious …
Bear Bones 2015 route was not only more rideable than last year, I’d say it was altogether more fun (mostly the type 1 kind).
We both had two weeks holiday remaining and enough air miles to get to Bilbao and back. That seemed liked enough of a …
