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Tag Archives: Mountain Biking
My interpretation of Goat’s email from Riding the Spine (America by Mountain bike)
I contacted Goat from the ridingthespine.com team because I am planning to do a similar trip in a couple of years time. Goat and two friends rode the Great Divide Mountain bike route from Alaska down to Mexico and then rode off road routes all the way down the mountains of South America. I haven’t [...]
Bicycle touring equipment kit list
Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. The idea is to design your bicycle touring equipment kit list so well that you don’t even need to think about it when you go on your cycle trip. To begin with you will have to get [...]
Posted in Constructive Ranting, Expedition Journal Also tagged bicycle touring, chainreaction, Cycling, equipment, expedition design, Extrawheel, forks, kit list, kona, magura, panniers, rack, sun, Touring Leave a comment
Weekend in Switzerland, Scott, Moulton, and ‘The Ride’ Journal
I recently spent a fantastic weekend in deepest Switzerland; near to the city of Bern with an engineer at Scott bikes who has just recently finished work on the new Scott Genius LT full suspension bike which is the most advanced do-all mountain bike available on the market today with suspension travel settings that allow [...]
Georiders – Mountain Biking in the Republic of Georgia
When I was travelling in India in 2009, I often dreamt of going back to Georgia and doing loads of mountain biking. I wanted to get involved in the local biking community and contribute. Back in Georgia, I was lucky to meet some local mountain bikers. I didn’t expect to find them because I thought [...]
Mongolia Mountain Biking Adventure – Some thoughts in retrospect
Yesterday I cycled 140km from Dover to Central London where I now reside. I’ve had a lot of time to digest the brilliant travel experience I’ve had in the last 2 months. The relative shortness of the Mongolia trip compared to previous trips has not made it feel less worthwhile. On the contrary the trip [...]
Posted in Asia, Expedition Journal, Mongolia, Mountain Biking Also tagged Adventure, bike touring, Mongolia, tips Leave a comment
Frozen Lakes, Mosquito infested bogs, and riding down rivers
Tom and I headed from Moron, where we had taken some days off to rest, to Hatgal which is a town on the Southern tip of lake Hovsgol. We had grown sick of pedalling across the steppe and were in search of a change of scenario (quite literally). We met two Finnish and an Australian [...]
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 [...]
Weddings, unlike lightning, strike in the same place twice…
This is the first post in a while to the Ride Earth blog because I’ve not been cycle touring recently. I returned via Public transport back from France to Tbilisi at the end of the summer. I met Tom in Venice and we spent a long and strange evening sleeping on a bench drinking wine [...]
New Kona Caldera Mountain Bike Frame
On Monday I received a shiny new Kona Caldera aluminium hardtail mountain bike frame from Kona. They supported Tom and I with our Explosif frames. However, my frame came a cropper in New Delhi when it snapped near the rear dropout (after 16k of riding loaded with luggage). I was able to get it welded [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in England, Expedition Journal, Mountain Biking Also tagged 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 [...]
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