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Category Archives: Mountain Biking
Curry, Dolma and Wilderness Mountain Biking in Armenia
Tom emailed me last week to tell me he was going to follow an old man on a horse to a hot spring at 3000m. That sounded like my idea of fun so I decided to go to Yerevan and do it. I went to the bus station in Ortachala in Tbilisi at 9.30 am [...]
A Caucausus Mountain Bike adventure in Khevsureti
Tom, David and I went for a bike ride into the Caucasus mountains of Georgia. I’d been planning it for a while and I wanted to get some proper riding in before the snows descended. Tom arrived on the Sunday but leaving was delayed until Tuesday. To pass the time we decided to build up [...]
Also posted in Asia, Expedition Journal, Georgia Tagged bread, Caucasus, cheese, Dogs, epic, Extrawheel, Food, Khevsureti, kona, mountain bike, Mountains, mtb, off-road, Tbilisi, tour, trailer, wilderness 1 Comment
A Two Month Storm
Long time since I wrote, I know. In fact I’ve been spending a lot of time in front of a computer. I’ve been writing every morning and now have written 95000 words of my book. I met one of my sister’s friends a couple of days ago who has just finished writing a book she [...]
Also posted in Climate Change, England, Europe, France, Georgia, Switzerland, Turkey, writing Tagged 4HWW, andrew welch, biking, boat, CENN, Climate Change, creativity, critiscism, Cycling, Dancing, dave allen, demonstrations, design, effectiveness, England, Environment, folklore, freedom square, Georgia, georgian, georiders, greece, GTD, Motivation, Mountain Biking, ngo, parliament, Photography, portfolio, public transport, rustaveli, saakashvili, saburtalo, swimming, Tbilisi, Timoty ferriss, travel, Turkey, uk, Websites, writing 3 Comments
Rutland Water
On Saturday I biked around Rutland Water and went windsurfing. The biking was great. 16 miles in about 1.10 hours. The wind was not in the right direction for the launch beach. I think it was North Westerly and therefore blowing offshore. The wind started about 8 mph and dropped. Not ideal conditions but I [...]
Also posted in England, Expedition Journal Tagged Mountain Biking, rutland water, trip preparation, windsurfing Leave a comment
Scotland biking expedition kit list
This is a kit list I dug out for the Scotland biking expedition in May 2005. I am currently in the process of writing up my journal which I will post here when finished.
Scotland Preparations
I am going on a trip to Scotland between the 13th May and the 21st. I am going to Portugal next weekend. I am designing the website where I work as the customer services engineer. I am planning and packing for the Scotland trip. The portugal trip is only a weekend and only involves taking [...]
Biking at Belvoir castle in Leicestershire
Hello, went biking around Belvoir castle in Leicestershire today. Really suprisingly good route. Got the route from www.mountainbikerides.co.uk. Some good climbs and descents for leicestershire. The ride gets its altitude from ascending tree covered ridge line. It follows a route through a variety of terrains including singletrack, towpath, doubletrack and fireroad. The route is mainly [...]
Chase
Road at Cannock Chase today. The follow the dog trail is pretty cool. It is mostly really twisty singletrack of on a variety of terrain with some fun sections. The downhill area is very difficult to find and we never actually did find it in the end and ended up doing a huge loop of [...]
Mountain Biking at Cannock Chase
I am going riding at Cannock Chase tommorow which is apparently great for mountain biking. We are going to do the Follow the dog trail which has purpose built technical sections. I am looking forward to it. More can be read about Cannock Chase at http://www.chasetrails.co.uk which has all the news about trailbuilding and how [...]
Mongolia Mountain Biking Adventure – Some thoughts in retrospect