Medical Stoppage
(To the tune of The Bluebells Young at Heart.) HEEEEEERNIA, HER HER HER HERN-NI-AAAAA!!! So towards the end of last summer, I had a little road bump that stopped me…
Tag: Mountain Biking
Magicshine ALLTY 1000
Looking for a backup light for spring & summer evening rides? I was sent the ALLTY 1000 by Magicshine, and after enjoying the transformative powers that their Monteer 6500 brought…
Brand X Dropper – 1000km Review
Surely it Can’t Last For That Money? Short answer: yes. Longer answer: yes, but. This post, which is of the badged up TranzX in disguise variety, is available from a…
Monteer 6500 – Review
Night riding season is well and truly here. The Monteer 6500 is Magicshine’s top tier offering, coming in £200.00, it features an array of 5 CREE LED’s which are powered…
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…
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…
