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Atlas Mountain Race 2025
Taking a Salsa Powderkeg tandem to one of the toughest mountain bike races. Part II. Now the dust is beginning to settle, mostly in our lungs, here’s that component run down we promised.. Salsa Powderkeg mtb tandem medium front / small rear. S&S couplings for ease of transport. Fits in Read More
Banana and Coffee Cake
Interested in cake? I mean but who isn’t. We did a little media on Instagram where we made a banana cake with the added kick of No Normal Coffee paste included. Here’s the recipe so you can create your very own masterpiece… Perfect for post, pre or during your next Read More
Taking Midnight Specials to the Bright Midnight
Two Surly Midnight Specials ready to roll for the @brightmidnight.cc Blue skies welcomed us for the train ride up from Oslo to Tolga for the start after a Norwegian cheese breakfast at the airport hotel on Saturday. Building bikes and final fettling performed in the blazing sunshine before briefing for the Read More
Olive’s Traws Eryri FKT ( Fastest Known Terrier ) attempt.
Day one of the Traws Eryri and Olive’s fkt attempt. We got the train from Llandudno Junction to Machynlleth at 05:16 so that we could still make a day of riding, we started from the tower after breakfast at 9:30. Skirting the main road and starting on a closed road Read More
an epic trip in the hills for a small dog full of sausage and opportunity
got an early train to Carlisle the other day. It was the 06:30 though, later than the 04:55 we had arrived on a chilly platform for. Bring an extra layer for those train cancellations fellow travellers! understanding train staff on an overbiked train made sure we got there though. Read More
Atlas Mountain Race 2020
We arrived at Marrakesh airport on Thursday evening, giving ourselves a day spare incase the bikes went walkies during the flight. No need to worry, they turned up fine. We got a ride to the hotel that also happened to be where the race would start the next morning. We Read More
Silk Road Mountain Race
Well, now the puppy’s out of the kennel and soon the full list of who’s in this years race will be published. It’s quite well known in our little pool that we currently hold the mixed pairs record for the Highland Trail 550 on a tandem. Due mostly to the Read More
Silk Road Mountain Race 2018
It took us 14 days to cover the 1700 kilometres to complete the first Silk Road Mountain Race. Four days longer than we had originally anticipated. That seems the going rate for the under-estimation for all 97 riders that toe’d the line in Bishkek on that Saturday morning. Of those Read More
Riding the HT550 (or a big walk with a long bike).
It’s 8.45 on a saturday morning and outside the real food cafe in Tyndrum 48 people are waiting for 9am, the official start time for the Highland Trail 550. The HT550 is a long distance, self supported 550 mile off road time trial route around the highlands of Scotland. There is Read More