Category: MTB

  • London to Cambridge bike ride. Twice.

    Did a big old bike ride last week. Cambridge to London via some nice sweeping country lanes and then back to Cambridge again along the official London to Cambridge route. Apart from a few short rides for an hour or two here and there, it was the first ‘proper’ ride I’ve done on a road […]

  • Electric bicycle

    If I’m honest, I’ve never really seen the point in electric bicycles until now. They’re not really quick enough to mix it up with other traffic, like you can on a scooter, and if you’re going to pootle along at 10-15mph on cycle paths then you may as well just pedal a normal bike and […]

  • Trail centre – Cwmcarn

    My new year resolution of visiting some of the mountain bike trail centres around the UK is progressing nicely, last Sunday I took a drive over to South Wales to ride the Twrch trail at CwmCarn. It’s only a 30 minute drive past the Severn Bridge, so dead easy to get to for those living […]

  • Bike skills coaching session

    I attended a mountain bike coaching session last Friday with Tony Doyle of UK Bike Skills. The day was bought for me as a Christmas present last month and I’d been waiting for the date to come around with some anticipation. I’d heard good things about Tony’s courses but was also a tiny bit sceptical […]

  • Thetford Forest

    Seeing as I was over Cambridge way at the weekend I thought I’d drive the extra 40 minutes or so to Thetford Forest to check out some of the marked out mountain bike trails over there. As well as some basic routes for all the family there are a couple of purpose built MTB trails, […]

  • Coast 2 Coast – update

    Slightly delayed post, but the C2C bike ride was a success. We were amazing lucky with the weather (torrential rain stopped the minute we got on the bikes and then started again three days later as soon as we’d finished) and didn’t really suffer any mechanical problems other than a single puncture on the first […]