The days are getting longer and warmer (pause for celebration)… thank goodness. I don’t need to tell you about the long and cold winter, I’m simply chuffed to bits that it’s nearly a thing of the past. My winter riding kit was still taking up a huge space in my wardrobe, before I hastily bundled [...]
Have you ever got to that point in your riding where you just cant be bothered to head out, for whatever reason? Sometimes trying to rekindle that love for biking feels unachievable in the rain, wind and punishing cold…. So what do you do about it?… Well I’ve found a solution, and an awesome one at that. [...]
An early Sunday morning start bike loaded in to car, it was off down the A12 for me in to Essex, the home of the newest and best Mountain bike course we currently have in the UK, designed and built specially for the 2012 Olympics, what a day it was going to be the sun was out [...]
4 mates, 4 bikes, 42.7 miles and 1 cold, dark, wet night. So you know what happens, someone, in our case Dennis, comes up with this idea to bike from Avebury to Goring-On-Thames along The Ridgeway National Trail. After much deliberation is was decided that we would set out on this adventure on the 9th [...]
Adventure means different things to different people. It could be an expedition across a continent, a weekend road trip with friends or simply exploring a new mountain range on your bike. In the second installment of The Adventure Series, Pete Scullion from Orange Bikes takes the new Orange Five 29 bike on a single day adventure [...]
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Season: You can pretty much ride Wales all year round. We did however have to postpone our trip to Cadair twice, once because of ice and the other because of heavy snow. You could probably ride in the snow however we had a film crew in tow so we had to think of everyone’s safety. [...]
We arrived in the misty Valleys of Wales and we welcomed with stunning mountains either side of our hotel. We stayed at the Tyn-Y-Cornel hotel which is about 10-15 minutes drive from the base of Cadair Idris which we were to climb the next day with Pete from Orange Bikes. The hotel manager even offered [...]
