If where you live is at all similar to the surroundings of Singletrack Towers, you’ve had nothing but rain for the past week, and likely have no riding without mud and ice to look forward to for the next few months. Perhaps time to start planning a trip for next year?
Below, Dan Milner rides the Lakes Basin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, with Mark Weir and Ben Cruz. Glorious it looks, too:
David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
