Reading Time: 5 minutes While at our rental cottage in L’Amable a few weeks back, I had the chance to explore another very short section of the Hasty Highlander. The L’Amable 40 is a[…]
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Category: Bikepacking
Exploring Gravel – Burks Fall’s Loop – West of 11
Reading Time: 8 minutes This is part two of my two-day adventure on the Burk’s Falls Loop. I decided to break this ride report up into two separate posts. Simply because both days felt[…]
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Exploring Gravel – Burks Falls Loops East of Hwy 11
Reading Time: 8 minutes Another weekend, another adventure, this time the Burk’s Falls Loop with my good friend Mike from @gravelroadcanada. The Burk’s Falls Loop is a one or two-day backwoods adventure that hit[…]
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Exploring Gravel – Hasty Highlander’s Lake Loop
Reading Time: 8 minutes I recently had the opportunity to ride the Lake Loop, an 80km extension of the Hasty Highlander bikepacking route by Matthew Kady. The Hasty Highlander comes in two forms, the[…]
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Durham Destroyer – The Full Monty – Part 2 – Bobcaygeon to Port Perry
Reading Time: 6 minutes This is the second of two parts about my three-day adventure on the Durham Destroyer Full Monty. If you haven’t already, you can read part 1 here, Durham Destroyer –[…]
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Durham Destroyer – The Full Monty – Part 1 – Port Perry to The Hobbit House
Reading Time: 11 minutes The Durham Destroyer routes have been some of my favourite days on the saddle, so when I heard that a special one-of-a-kind commemorative mug would be available to the first[…]
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Packing for a Two Night Bikepacking Trip
Reading Time: 5 minutes As I prepared for my first bikepacking trip, I had two key questions – When packing for bikepacking, what bags? And what goes where? I scoured the Internet far and[…]
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Full Review – Arkel – Handlebar Bag Large
Reading Time: 8 minutes When I first started riding gravel and writing last year, my iPhone was my camera of choice, and no matter how hard I tried, my pictures never turned out the[…]
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Initial Thoughts – Field and Forest Custom Frame Bag
Reading Time: 6 minutes This year I decided to dive headfirst into the world of bikepacking, purchasing my first gravel-specific bike, the Norco Search XR C2. With the bike out of the way, it[…]
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The Motherload – 75k Version – A Tale of Seven Hills
Reading Time: 6 minutes My first cycling goal for 2021 goal is capturing Durham Destroyer Triple Crown. I finished The Rookie a couple of weeks back and hope to do I’m Not Worthy in the next[…]
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