Archive for August, 2009

Ginger Warrior - a wee biking flick

Monday, August 31st, 2009

This isnt exactly a Bikebus related post, however its a nice wee film of my local trails as shot and ridden by Ginger Chris(my mate with the ginger hair called Chris). Enjoy.

At last - an update!!

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Yes i know ive been slacking with my ramblings on this blog.
So whats been going on in Bikebusland?
After Mabie the next trip was Kirroughtree. If memory serves me it was a pretty warm day. Steve, Billy, Craig and me made up the posse(lenka met us there after having camped out in the forest the night before!). The trails were the usual - brilliant and the Girvan chippy on the way hame was even better.
Next was Inners - Martin, Lenka, Billy and Steve joined me for some 7 stanes radicalness. Well actually we just had a very enjoyable day on the trail notching up a few of the wee hidden tracks on the way round.
Next was a trip up north to visit the Queen in Braemar. Steve, Andy and myself made the jaunt. Apart from my navigational skills giving us an extra 45mins of climbing(sorry guys) the day was tremendous, especially the drop from 859m high into town to finish. Classic highland riding.
Glentress was next on the list. Iain, Phil , Martin and me were joined by a few ‘friends’ of Bikebus - Chris, Paul and Winker. The weather was typical Scottish summer - pissin down. Great trails tho including a wee hidden one(gets us away from the riff raff). A few of us also took part in a timed event run by garmin - Martin won. Phil got lost and im getting old.
Martin, Veronika, Iain, Rafal, Andy and me took on Ae next and gave it a doin!!We did have a few casualties tho - Well done Veronika on your first Mountain bike ride and hopefully you didnt get too many questions next day at work about the cuts and scrapes you picked up. Our on-bus camera dude(Martin) did his stuff filming rafal coming down the last descent.

Whew! im getting there although my brain feels a bit fried trying to remember all the going on over the last wee while.
Anyhow next was the hidden loveliness of Caberston. Iain, Steve, Billy , Andy and myself were joined by Andy and Aneela from Innerhaven. Thsi forest is one of my favs(and i think everyone elses too). Climb, great descent, more climb, another great descent, more climb, yet another great descent, back to Innerhaven for tea, out of date biscuits and some quality street, more climb, more great descents, more climb, more great descent(sorry old lady and man walkers for giving you a bit of a fright on the track just above Leithen water.
At last, a trip i can remember without having to wrack my brains.
The long trip north was made by Andy, Steve, Iain, Chris and me and we picked up a stray bear in Perth(Innerhaven Andy)We ended up in Glen feshie. Wonderful cairngorm riding - a real beast of a climb from the valley floor up to over 1000m and the summit of Carn ban Mor(cloud level was around 800m so the top section was rather damp and windy, still nice tho). What a descent, not one for the faint hearted. Rocks, more rocks intersperced with rocks. What a cracker.
After being eaten alive by the locals(midges) be packed up the bikes, headed over to Laggan, zipped round the red route, skooted down the jump park, skoffed some nice cake and coffee from the cafe got back in the Bikebus and got home just before dark. Crackin day out.