The Tarpless Tour | A Celebration of Mountain Biking Friendships

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Up and down the country, clusters of riding friends navigate their way round local trails and personal challenges. The bikes help them fall apart, and stick together. Stephan Fowler brings us a tale from one such group. ‘The Tarpless Tour’ is possibly a somewhat confusing name for our annual pilgrimage to foreign lands, but all will become clear. This is a story of celebrating what mountain biking brings to a bunch of guys suffering the effects of lock-downs and just life in general. Typical Thursday outingOur kids are now getting a bit goodTo give you some history, our group of riders based (very conveniently) in the Surrey Hills has been together since about 2004. We’re all working Dads with one of a long line of sayings being “We’re a drinking club with a bike problem”. Our once cute and delightful kids have become great hulking, grunting teenagers with some serious biking talent that we grimace and wince at as they throw themselves over unsuitable hand built jumps without the fear of going to work the...
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  • Premier Icon baffledcodemonkey
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    Telling it like it is Mr F. Brilliant writeup and let’s hope Tarp Mark II lives again in the near future. Kudos to Hannah and Singletrack for letting you tell the story of why this sport is so important

    Posted 3 months ago
    Premier Icon Dewkoa
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    Brilliant story. Thank you to STW for publishing it.

    Posted 3 months ago
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