I arrived back in the UK after a short trip to ISPO last week, to find the latest issue of What Mountain Bike magazine on the shelves at Gatwick Airport. The cover image jumped out at me. It’s one of mine from a photography shoot I did for the magazine back before Christmas at the…
Kinlochleven Enduro 2016
Driving down the hill into Kinlochleven, was like driving into Narnia. Temperatures had plummeted throughout the North of Scotland and snow had fallen overnight, transferring this remote town, known for it’s history of aluminium smelting and more recently the Ice Factor National Ice Climbing Centre, into a picture perfect postcard scene. The sun was yet to rise,…
In Print: Mountain Bike UK Magazine
MBUK Big Ride Guide: Linn of Dee, Cairngorms Back in November, as snow was falling in the Northern Cairngorms, I teamed up with Max Darkins of MBUK to drive over the snow covered roads from Aviemore to the Linn of Dee. Here we joined up with two local riders Malcolm and Rebecca from OrangeFox Bikes for…
MBUK Big Ride Guide – Rothiemurchus
A couple of months ago, I joined Max Darkins from Mountain Bike UK magazine along with Sally and Bruce from Mikes Bikes in Aviemore for a ride through Rothiemurchus in the Cairngorms of Scotland. It was that time of year when the leaves were turning and mud could be found in epic proportions, but the…
Atherton Crowned BT Action Woman of the Year
Rachel Atherton has been crowned the first-ever winner of BT’s Action Woman of the Year Awards. The new Action Women Awards celebrate women who gave the most dynamic sporting performance during 2013. The winner was decided by online public vote from a shortlist. 2013 was already an incredible year for Rachel Atherton, she became the women’s downhill mountain…
Kendal Mountain Festival – Idents
Last week I was recruited (bribed and threatened) to act as an Action Sports Model for Fridge Productions, who were working on a series of Idents (film shorts) for the Kendal Mountain Festival this coming weekend. I regularly work with Fridge, and they are good guys to work with, so I happily agreed. We were…
Danny Macaskill – Industrial Revolutions
If you watch one thing today, make it this… its stunning! Amazing cinematography, beautiful soundtrack and the best riding you daren’t even dream about…
A quick hop to Antwerp
I’ve been on the road now more or less continuously since early June… It slowly takes it’s toll… I get a couple of days at home, which are taken up with admin, sleeping and if I’m lucky a quick spin on my bike… and then I’m back in the van and off to the next…
Bradley Wiggins secures the National Road Race Championship…
If you were lost in Northumberland on Sunday and passed within 20 miles of the village of Stamfordham you might have wondered what the hell was going on. The roads were lined with hundreds of abandoned cars and crowds in the thousands stood screaming on the verges, as the best road racers in Britain tore…
Fort William World Cup 3 year deal!
I’m not long back in the office after a 705 mile round trip, to one of the biggest event’s of the year, the Fort William UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. Every year as I turn back south, there is a moment of anticipation, will it be back next year? It’s voted the best event on…
