Dirty Reiver 200 Gravel Race Announced

If distance is more your kind of thing than gnar, the UK’s first gravel race has been announced and may be for you. It’s taking place in April 2016, on a 200km course made of Kielder Forest fire roads straddling the Scotland-England border. Unless they announce gnarmac specific rules, there’s nothing to stop you doing it on your Orange Alpine if you really want to. Find out more and sign up for updates at www.dirtyreiver.co.uk.

David Hayward

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.