Riding Mastermind
A destination trail, a single ribbon of singletrack sublime enough to make any amount of journey time worth while. Mastermind and the Ridge are to be found on opposite sides…
Tag: Mountain Biking
Lochnagar
“Eye and foot acquire in rough walking a co-ordination that makes one distinctly aware of where the next step is to fall, even while watching sky and land.” Whilst I…
Standards, huh, What are They Good For?
Absolutely nothing!? maybe? I don’t know, lets talk it out. So there is this perennial myth in mountain biking, that “big MTB” is creating new standards to devalue our existing…
Single Speedz
3×8, 2×8, 1×8, 1×1, 1×9, 1×1 The evolution of Sven the Spesh continues, this time returning to a single speed setup. The how is a fairly straight forward process, converting…
Fungle to Keen
One of the wonders of living in Scotland is the landscape in which we live. Sometimes, you need to step out and journey into those hills. Riding with…
In Search of Epic?
Mountain biking is a tribe with a vocabulary all of its own. Gnar, loam, brap, berm, lip, kicker, stoked, flow, table, gap, double, roost to name a few. Some of…
ERC – (Every Ride Carry)
Short ride long ride, you always need to take some gear with you. Depending on how long I’m riding and where, I will tend to pack differently, usually risking a…
Fungle Road
Heading south from the Fungle singletrack is the Fungle Road itself. The old drovers road connects Deeside in the north with Tarfside in the south and is usually part of…
Glenlivet
“How big is Big Red?” “Big Red’s pretty big…” This was the paraphrasing of a conversation between myself and one of my riding buddies. Joe was selling the virtues of…
Gotta Learn to Lean
The winter mud is refusing to freeze, so another wet and mild winter to grind through. With the winter season being the time for base miles and building the foundations for…
G&T
Rental bikes, love or hate them, we all need the convenience of them at sometime in our riding lives. Rental bikes can be a lot of fun, they are like…
Sessioning
I once wrote “Sessioning is not Strava“. And it isn’t, sessioning, stopping mid trail to push back up and practice a corner, drop or feature does not win PBs and…
Nimbo Cumulos
Loamy moss and pine needles rooster tailing off your back wheel, endless grip and at the end of another great ride, a clean bike to go back into the shed.…
2016 – What a Year
2016, what a year, memorable, for all the wrong reasons, and some good ones too. A years worth of riding, starting with a frozen Aviemore and a flooded Aberdeenshire through…
