After seeing and hearing about last years inaugural Torino – Nice rally we decided it was definitely on our ‘to do’ list. We managed to be organised enough to book our flights to Italy and our first nights accommodation in January and then we promptly forgot about it. Fast forward to 2 Read More
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
Dirty Reiver 200 Personalised plates. We first expressed an interest in a Salsa Powderkeg around four years ago. Prototypes came and went, we couldn’t get our hands on anything small enough. There was obviously a lot going on Stateside that helped to produce the amazing bike we have just got our Read More
It’s been a while since we’ve been this far North in Scotland. Once we’d closed up the shop on Christmas Eve, dropped Olive the Dog at the minders and had a chip supper we headed 431 miles North to Oykel Bridge. We arrived reasonably early and grabbed a couple of Read More
A not so regular look at ways to heat your food. We first tried the Hexagon wood stove in sunny Morocco last December – its burn anything attitude is ideal for desert riding. Dry river beds are ideal hunting grounds for fuel sources, mostly wood of course. It folds flat, packs Read More
So a couple of customers have decided to do what we all dream of doing, selling up, grabbing their bikes and heading off round the world with no fixed agenda or timescale. Perfect! We were asked to build them two bikes that would be capable of taking on the Read More
a few years ago now, in a time before Keep Pedalling Limited, I bought a 1×1 frame – it was 2005 according to the frame number. Did you know you can tell when a Surly frame was produced from the frame number? All is explained here anyway, it’s had a Read More
Quite old and quite new Surly 1 x 1 in summery bright colours (Trolls hiding under the bridge)
To check out what we’re up to more regularly it’s probably best to look here… www.facebook.com/keeppedalling In the meantime we’ll make more of an effort with this blogging. In other news someone got a new bike. This Genesis Volare stainless Di2 is really rather good.
