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Big Day Out for Richie Scott at the Dirty Reiver
Gravel
“Reive” is an early English word for “to rob”, from the Northumbrian and Scots verb reifen from the old English rēafian, and thus related to the archaic standard English verb reave (“to plunder”, “to rob”), and to the modern English word “ruffian”. Well plunder it did. Left knee to be exact…
Jason Miles’s Dirty Weekend
Gravel
Some people, who claim to be sensible people, absolutely avoid at all costs taking a brand new, never-ridden bike to ride in a bike race. A very long, hard bike race in a remote location with no mobile…
Matt Jones’s Weekend Goes Down the Pan!
Mountain Biking
Bit of an interesting weekend of highs and lows. The Scott MTB Marathon weekends are always great training with the night race on the Saturday followed by the full marathon distance the next day. The back to back…
Jacqui Simcock’s Builth Wells MTB Marathon Report
Mountain Biking
The weather for my first long distance MTB ride of the year @ScottMTB, in the stunning country side of Builth Wells, was fantastic. Glorious sunshine. There was a record turn out, approx 800 riders as I understand. Phil,…
Matt Jones’s Moors Madness
Mountain Biking
Aero tucked in, easiest gear, giving it full beans but crawling along at walking pace on top of bleak moorland I was seriously thinking “what an idiot I am”! When I started taking mountain biking a bit more…
Keith Kitchen Hits the North
Mountain Biking
I dodged the bodies strewn over the muddy descent. It was carnage…OK that’s the first downhill done…now on with the rest of the Hit the North lap. My first experience of a shorter course and shorter race time was…
Busy Week for Jacqui Simcock
Cyclocross, Mountain Biking, Road Biking
As the song nearly goes, 1 out of 3 ain’t bad. I had three races in the space of 8 days and only managed to fully complete one of them. As it was, it was my first, a…
