High above the Mediterranean islands and far from the bustle of Athens is a Greece you’ve likely never seen. A country covered by towering peaks, forgotten valleys and singletrack trails dissecting endless folds of mountains. An evergreen landscape dotted with...
Reasons to Ride takes you into the 5th edition of the Silk Road Mountain Race, an unsupported bikepacking race in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan....
New Zealander Matthew Fairbrother isn’t wired the same as the rest of us. Being a professional enduro mountain bike racer is a hard enough job but Matthew made a name for himself by making his life even tougher by bikepacking...
Is this the ultimate full-suspension bikepacking rig? Before we answer that somewhat provocative title, it’s worth discussing why we built this… In 2023 SRAM released their engineering masterpiece – Eagle Transmission. This new drivetrain has a rear derailleur that mounts...
It’s 100 miles to the next gas station, 100 miles from the last one. It’s 100 miles from anywhere, to anywhere. And it’s the bucket list ride that Lachlan Morton spent years dreaming about. Starting in Banff, Alberta, Canada and...
The Silk Road Mountain Race is a 2000km bikepacking race around Kyrgyzstan. The race is predominately off road taking on high altitude mountain passes and rough tracks as the route winds its way around the country. KYRGYZSTAN is a short...
The Highland Trail 550 (HT550) challenge stands as a true test of physical and mental resilience. This documentary delves into the journey of Matthew Fairbrother, who recently took on the HT550 challenge and the highs and lows of this exceptionally...
When your sport is incredibly hard and results and fortune don’t go your way, how do you keep the fire inside burning? How do you pick yourself back up? After five years of racing ultra-endurance, James Hayden had to re-assess...
The dust (or mud as is usually the case) might have settled on the 2022 edition of the Highland Trail 550 (HT550) But entries for the 2023 edition open on the 26th November this year and I’m sure there are...