With the year nearly over, I was keen to squeeze in one last trip. In January I was hoping to get at least 1 trip a month away. Foolishly optimistic as it turned out. A dozen is a steep target unless your life revolves around bikepacking. Mine doesn't. But one more would take me to seven in 2025, up from five in 2024 - so progress of a kind. But where? Winter trips require a certain amount of caution. Not only is the weather generally grim, more importantly, daylight is a rap

No longer working gives me the luxury of being able to escape the constraints of squeezing a trip into a long weekend. It's opened up both regions farther away and routes that require more than 48 hours to complete. A Monday to Friday adventure beckoned. But with summer over and the nights drawing in, I was unsure what might be achieveable as a first step. Having looked around ( bikepacking.com komoot.com both have lots of inspo) in the end I chose the Marcher Castles Way

I can't count the number of times I've been to the Gower over the years - with school friends, family and my surfing buddies. But only to...

Early July and the country is in the grip of its third heatwave of the year; with temperatures over 30 deg C. So an ideal moment to take...

Blue sky, green fields and the obligatory oast houses A combination of birthday celebrations and prior commitments have thrown my plan of...

Another Friday and another platform at Clapham Junction. This time I was off to somewhere called Tisbury in Wiltshire to tackle another...

Mud, not so glorious, mud I'm planning to try a do a few more trips than the five I managed last year - but the relentless rain in...

So it's October - there's bit less daylight and a lot more rain it seems. So for my next trip I looked for a quicker rail connection and...

With August drawing to a close, I thought I should do the same and complete King Alfred's Way before the weather and my diary became too...

Keen to complete the KAW by the end of the year, I booked my ticket from Clapham Junction to Westbury for an early Friday train in July....

Some 10 months after I started my King Alfred's Way mini-adventures I finally got around to completing the next chunk. This leg saw me...

It's been a while since my last trip - September last year. Getting a new job and getting into the spirit of Christmas getting in the way...

For the last few months, my biggest focus has been to fulfil my role as co-executor for my parents' estate. My 3 sisters and I have made...

I'd been thinking about doing the King Alfred's Way for a while now. 350km of mostly off-road riding that loops around the heart of...

I'd been wanting to head North and combine seeing a very old close friend and some bikebiking in a more remote part of the UK, for a...

So way back in June '21, in the middle of one or other lock down, I took a trip down to the Isle of Wight. The weather was great and the...

Here's a short video of a trip to the South Downs I made in January '23. Mercifully, it didn't rain, but the ground was well and truly...