Tom emailed me last week and 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 [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Armenia, Asia, Expedition Journal, Mountain Biking
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Also tagged Adventure, Andy, Armenia, biking, caldera, church, Curry, Cycling, dolma, epic, explosif, kona, Mountains, retro, snow, tom, Wild, wildnerness
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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 with [...]
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 [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Expedition Journal
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Also tagged aluminium, Bike, bruce lee, caldera, Cycling, frame, kona, mountain bike, quote, red, review, shiny, sponsorship, steel, Wisdom
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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 [...]
By Andy
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Posted in Climate Change, England, Europe, France, Georgia, Mountain Biking, Switzerland, Turkey, writing
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Also 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, ngo, parliament, Photography, portfolio, public transport, rustaveli, saakashvili, saburtalo, swimming, Tbilisi, Timoty ferriss, travel, Turkey, uk, Websites, writing
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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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 March 4, 2006
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 [...]
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 [...]
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