Scotland doesn't have a packing list so much as a packing system — five things, worn in shifting combinations, that work whether the wind is coming off the Atlantic or the North Sea.
Read the post →Up the River Avon out of Scotland's highest village, into a glen with no road through it. The stage riders talk about afterwards.
Read the post →There is no dry season here. There is only a set of trade-offs — light against midges, warmth against wind — and September wins more of them than people expect.
Read the post →A road built to move soldiers, three centuries before anyone thought of riding it for pleasure. The day the Highlands stop being scenery.
Read the post →Some of the emptiest, most rideable gravel in Europe runs clean across Scotland — Atlantic to North Sea, on roads built two centuries before the bicycle. A full guide to the route, the riding and the week.
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