EDC Trail Tool – Review
Ultimate Multi-tool? or Classy Bling? Nothing beats riding packless, and the OneUp Components EDC tool system helps in that quest. It allows you to carry all the tools and small…
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Riding Glenlivet Trail Centre
Glenlivet has had a few changes this year. It’s also been a while since my last ride there so it was worth a visit to see what’s what. Most of…
Is The UCI Stifling Innovation? – Sick Bike Co Collab
As part of what I hope to become a series of guest Vlogs (still hate that term). I recorded this vlog posing the question “Is The UCI Stifling Innovation?”. I…
Is Your Clutch Mech Affecting Your Suspension?
You know that little switch on your clutch mech? That magic little mute button? Well does that clutch affect your suspension? I had a hunch that the clutch on my…
Are You Tall Enough For a 29er?
Everybody knows 29ers are faster-rolling race winning wunder machines. But should you be riding one? Should we start to think about wheel size in the same way we think about…
Standard Rant
New standards, everybody loves them, wait no the other one, nobody loves them. Pink bike keyboard warriors love them, nothing gets them going like a new axle width. What do…
Why I Don’t Trust CO2
Co2 cartridges, small, light and fast. Its like they come from the future. But I’m increasingly not a fan. Here is why I don’t trust Co2 carts as far as…
Moray Monster Trails
Nestled far enough of the normal drag Moray Monster trails doesn’t get the rep it deserves. Outside Fochabers and set over two hills with a road running between them, the…
Pannanich DH
On a recent ride I went to find a local legendary trail called Heart Break Ridge. A long sinuous line flowing singletrack cutting over a open hillside along a wide…
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…
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…
Hardtails
Feedback, that sense of feeling the trail, the bike instantly responding to your every input. Every half turn of the cranks propelling you forwards, the tyres telling you what they…
Train in Vain
Returning to work is not without some advantages, There is an excellent on campus gym for a start. Back to work with a bump, sort of. I work at a university…
