Category Archives: Road trip

Pumptracks

How hard is it to write an article about pumptracks without mining the “pump it up” tropes?

Hard. Very hard indeed. I’ll try avoid it, but can’t promise anything.

If you remember 2020 when the biggest thing we had to worry about was global pandemic and not global war (another opportunity to say go fuck yourself Putin and leave the world, in peace) the pumptrack bike became the overnight coolest must have you must have.

I got one too, cheers Airdrop!

Of course, pumptrack bikes aint nothing new, a hardtail playbike has been a staple of riders sheds since I … [Read full post]

Once upon a time in the Southern Balkans

Skopje. The future looks good. For biking at least.
A week riding the trails of North Macedonia and Albania. And eating and drinking and chatting and meeting folk and seeing things. The more interesting bit.

Smells like Digne spirit* 

I'm not a good enough writer to describe just how much fun we were having at this point. Many. Many funs.
Mountain biking trip to ride the VTT singletrack heaven of the Terres Noires and Evo Bikepark

I am just going outside and may be some time // La Grave

Mountains make me feel better. Usually. Other things make other people feel better. Usually. We're all different.
Mountain Bike riding in La Grave. Turns out it's just as unique and addictive in summer as winter

Dorenaz

Where is this going? Well, Wayne's going down and north, I've no idea where the blog's headed.
Mountain biking in Switzerland from the Dorenaz lift. Always open, always dry. Both the wit and the riding.

Plaine Morte.

Plaine Morte. A big old day out of mountain biking starting at a glacier and ending at a plan d'eau, written about through discussing the nature of time and the illusion of free will.

Backpacks in the bikepark // Pila

Any of the atoms in this picture, in the screen you are looking at it on, could have existed since the birth of the universe. Just have a think about that for a minute. Or 13.7 billion years.
Pila, riding the bikepark, riding the not bikepark, considering the symbiosis between the birth of the universe and the dust that makes us, our bikes and the trails we ride them on.

Queyras

If you're going to climb, you might as well do it somewhere picturesque.
A week of mountain biking in "The Cathedral of Flow." Or the Queyras Parc National as it's known on the map.

A day in Italy

Wayne aka ChamonixMTB, Chamonix's first French qualified UK guide drifting into 2020.

There are many odd questions you get asked living in Chamonix. Where’s the lift to the Mont Blanc? Is it pronounced Chamonix or Chamonix? Are you a skier or snowborder? Which do you prefer; summer or winter? If you could only do biking or skiing; which?

Obviously these aren’t questions people are interested in the answer to, it’s just humans wanting to avoid silence and keep the distractions going, but the “if you could only…?” questions always intrigues me. Like, what freak scenario are you imagining that will leave the circumstances that would create only being able to ski OR … [Read full post]

Tour des Combins

Dave learning just how much fun carrying a bike up hill can be at 2800m
Two days of biking in mountains, on mountains, between mountains and ignoring mountains. And a hut. 130km round, 5000m up and 5900m down if you want to try it yourself.