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Now almost ten years old, TweedLove Bike Festival seems to keep on growing. Held annually in the Scottish Borders’ Tweed Valley, more new events have been added, and the demo/expo is attracting more and more big name brands. Taking place over the weekend of June 8-10th, the festival will host over 30 bike, component, and […]

Vomit warning! Sam’s face smash aside, this MTB movie may just change your life. 420 miles, many hills, every night in a bivvy bag – join the Trippin’ fellas for the ultimate cross Alps adventure! With trails and views packed with such reverence you’d be hard pressed not to find yourself booking a flight there […]

Beards, singlespeeds, coffee, boats and bike-packing, it’s like Hipster bingo! Erkki Punttila goes off-grid for a while in Finland and gets back to nature on this adventure with plenty of fire lighting, camping and other rugged pursuits in the wilderness. ‘Our Finnish friend Erkki Punttila is quite the character. Through his blog, PackGoFind, he approaches […]

And now for something completely different… Tom is 11 and just loves riding his bikes with his dad, no matter what the terrain, no matter what the weather. There might not be any huge hucks into oblivion in this, but Tom makes a lot of sense when he connects with the reason we all love bikes, […]