Category Archives: Road trip

Finale / Lads lads lads

Posted on 20th May 2019
Obligatory pissing about up at NATO shot, cheers Lorne.
Guided riding in Finale Ligure, mountain biking by the sea. And death by nostalgia. What more could you ask of a blog post?
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Anything for an easy life.

Posted on 17th April 2019
Pila. and pan shot saturday
Late season skiing = early season lift access biking.
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Verbs

Posted on 22nd October 2018
Vertigo. To get this shot I climbed a tree to pretty much the top, then noticed the drop off the cliff to the side and asked Spence to hurry up so I could get back down again.
Verbier. It's got mountains and bike trails and lifts and stuff.
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The journey, not the destination.

Posted on 18th October 2018
It's cycle touring, not bike packing. Just because you've been tight and just strapped your shit onto the bike rather than using a pannier doesn't make it a different sport, it just means you're using the wrong tools for the job.
Tour du Mont Blanc on a road bike. Cycle touring not bike packing.
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Les Arcs: Putting the Fun in Funiculaire

Posted on 29th April 2018
Funiculaire fun in Les Arcs.
A wee trip down to Les Arcs to ride assorted alpine singletrack mountain bike trail goodness off the funiculaire
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Sospel. Good Content.

Posted on 6th March 2018
Throw horns and smile. Biking in the snow is infinitely better than not biking at all.
A trip south to Ride Sospel in the sun and dust. Or snow and cold...
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Aosta, Col Entrelor

Posted on 14th October 2017
Why would you want to be anywhere else? Lots of reasons, but that doesn't tie up the loose ends quite so well, so we'll ignore them.
The Aosta valley has some of the finest mountain biking in the Alps, Italy, Europe and the world. Here's just a wee bit of it from the Col Entralor.
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B.C. Pemberton, Squamish and Chilcotins, I don’t only ride park.

Posted on 12th October 2017
Rob on one of the many mellow turns of High Trail. There was about 1000m vert of this from the alpine down through the trees. Good eh.

Following on from the part 1 post on the trip to British Columbia, here’s some envy inducing images from our trips away from mountain bike Disney Land to some other choice spots.

Whistler’s park is famous for a reason, but then the rest of B.C. is also famous for a reason. I could’ve probably spent 3 weeks riding Squamish and come home thinking I’d had a grand trip. There’s a lot of amazing riding out there and I’ve hardly seen any of it, but I suspect I’ll be seeing more over the next few years.

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B.C. Whistler, I only ride park.

Posted on 10th October 2017
Spend three weeks mountain biking in B.C. and Whistler....you'll ride a fair bit of park.
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Le Thuile: Day of the Dead (forearms).*

Posted on 17th July 2017
Yeah, I know the image quality is terrible, but if you wanted a better idea why didn't you go yourself?
Once again, La Thuile knocks it out the park and out my hands at enduro racing. Superenduro Round 3.
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