February looked like being a carbon copy of the month before, with the usual wiat till the last night of the month forcing me out into uninviting weather. The forecast was better than last time, so I hoped to get further away from Aberdeen than last time, if it stayed dry enough. As I headed …
After a year off, it was time to get cracking with my bivy a month routine again, as I was missing the extra time spent outdoors. I kept with tradition and waited till the end of January to get my first one in, heading out on a Monday night late on, with a bike full …
https://www.theracingcollective.com/transscotland.html Distance: 470km Climbing: 5325m The start of June brought an event I have been waiting a while to take part in. With life, COVID and scheduling conflicts having thwarted me before, this was to be the year I finally had a go at TransScotland! I pretty much plan a route through the checkpoints every …
Rather than go through all the BAM I did to finish off the year, I’ve decided to lump into one post, as I waited too long to get them done. So, month by month: August Back to normal in that it was a last minute late night ride out to the summit of a local …
I felt like I wanted to do something a bit bigger for June, ideally maximising all that lovely daylight. Inspiration came in the shape of an email from Restrap, exhorting riders to do a Solstice Century and earn a badge. Always a sucker for earning a free badge I will never get round to sewing …