"Nice reminder of a lovely area. One of those you're not sure whether to advertise or not ." - Oops! Looks like I let the cat out of the bag then! Seriously, though, it's a beautiful area and I'll definitely be back. "Oooffya, thats risk taking - bivvy bag only in galloway just as the...

Just spent three days in the Galloway Forest, southwest Scotland. I last rode here back in 2014 in the Galloway Gallop ‘gravel sportive'. This time I rode some of those same trails at a more leisurely pace and was able to appreciate the impressive scenery more fully. Days 1 and 2 brought good weathe...

Having ticked February and March BAMs off on skinnier bikes/tyres, I returned to the fat side this week for April’s outing. I started in Banchory in Aberdeenshire and spent three days (with two night’s camping) exploring towards the west in the Forest of Birse and Glen Tanar. The weather was pretty ...

Thanks Borderer. I can highly recommend it. I've been exploring out that way for a few years now and still come across new trails and potential bivvy sites.

Cheers guys. There are some other ancient castles in East Lothian (some better preserved than others) which are well maintained pay-to-enter tourist attractions. However, the two I've visited recently are fairly small and have effectively been abandoned to the elements. Using them respectfully and l...

Bivvy A Month 2019: March. I got this month's trip in early this time round (3rd and 4th March), once again in East Lothian. On day two of my previous bikepacking trip, having spent the night in a little ruined castle at Gullane, on my way eastwards to Dunbar I’d stumbled across the remains of anoth...

Excellent! A free night in a Scottish castle - hard to top that. Your 5.30am encounter certainly added to the experience. Maybe you could have offered some bikepacker's porridge in exchange for their generous gesture? That would have baffled them. I find it really interesting hearing about non-tent...

The weather forecast was predicting strong westerly winds, so I decided to ride east to Dunbar over two days (18th and 19th Feb) and let the train take the strain back home from there! On a mix of roads and some of my regular off-road trails, I rode out to Gullane to spend the night. I’d decided on ...

I took up the BaM challenge for the first time last year and completed just before Christmas. My intention is to repeat the series this year and I kicked off my 2019 effort last week in Rothiemurchus Forest near Aviemore. A cold, biting wind made its presence felt on the ride in to Loch An Eilein bu...