Category: mountain bike
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Europe in 90 days. Part 7. The finale.
5549.3 miles. That is the total number of miles we drove from Glasgow and back to Glasgow. Phew. I must say sorry here to poor Julie who had to drive the final 4 days as I chattered gobbledegook from the passenger seat, but more on that at the end. The day after my last post…
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Europe in 90 Days. Part 6.
3 weeks since my last post, and this one nearly didn’t happen but some questionable antics with some electrical tape and a bit of copper wire and my laptop charger is working again, woohoo! We left Split and headed north to a small town called Biograd, it’s really small but the campsite was huge and…
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Europe in 90 days. Part four.
Before the trip we thought the better campsites would be the more expensive ones. Our budget is 70 Euros a day, this is for food, accommodation and anything else we need day to day, fuel is separate, any extra notes get rolled over to a fun fund which has so far been wiped out twice,…
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Europe in 90 days. Part three.
This week has been all about the Bavarian Alpine Road, since my last blog we have been mostly adventuring in the mountains; first stop Schiedegger to see the waterfalls, they were much nicer than those at Triberg, less touristy for one but also massive drops into large caves, much like a shampoo advert, still all…
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Europe in 90 days. Part Two.
When I was a teenager in Redcar I used to ‘mountain bike’ all the time, I would take my far too big for me bike and ride the roads and farm tracks in the countryside, or ride to Marske-by-the-sea and take the woods to Saltburn, or I would cycle up the big hills to Guisborough…
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Europe in 90 days. Part One.
Tuesday 15th March we started off the European trip with a ferry from Newcastle to Amsterdam, arriving Wednesday morning we parked at a campsite just across the water from the city and took the tram in so we could explore. A ‘free’ walking tour around the historic centre was a little long in parts but…
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Progress or punishment?
There is a saying in mountain biking, and it’s not very wise, that if you’re not crashing you’re not trying hard enough. The sentiment is good enough, that if you are crashing you are probably pushing your limits and trying new things, but really you can push your limits to an extent without falling on…
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Festivities
It has been a while, 3 months have passed since my last blog entry, three interesting months. After our last trip around Scotland I really started to get my teeth into my van conversion, my new home for a while, and biking really took a hit, all my weekends were about the van and not…
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Sunshine and upgrades
My last post was just before my holiday, so I am now back from Gibraltar with some dodgy tan marks and feeling well rested. It was really hot over there which was lovely during the day as long as I did nothing but sit and read, there was no way I could have ridden my…
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Home sweet home!
After 4 weekends of living in the van I was happy to have a weekend at home, time for some local riding, hot showers and my proper bed! I love my van and am planning on converting a bigger one for future bigger plans, this will have a fixed double bed rather than the foldable…