Travels
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E-Biking the Monks Trod
E-bikepacking SnowdoniaRiding the Cambrian Way This boggy byway won’t be most riders’ cup of teaBikepacking Wales guidebook It was only while having a chat with a rider pushing his flat-tyred MTB back to the Claerwen dam car park, that I realised I’d just traversed the 10-km Monks Trod, a historic and now controversial ancient road…
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E-Bikepacking Trans Cambrian Way
Trans Snowdonia with E-bikeRiding the Monks Trod (soon) Riding across Snowdonia from Llandudno to Machynlleth, lined me right up for the 160-km Trans-Cambrian Way which runs from Knighton to nearby Dovey Junction. For some reason they pitched the TCW into the prevailing winds then ended at Dovey, a forlorn rail stop marooned on the Afon…
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Himalaya Bikepacking • Ladakh & Spiti Valley
After riding the Karakoram Highway from Kashgar and on to Chitral in 2008, Steve headed for Ladakh in late September 2009, aiming to ride over some of the world’s highest road passes.Written by Steve Lord and originally published in the Adventure Cycle Touring Handbook 2010 (right).The video above covers the first half of our ride…
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E-Biking Purbeck
Other Tero X5 posts We headed out for another lap of the Isle of Purbeck to explore some new bridleways and connect with others. Up on to the Ridgeway or Knowle Hill above Church Knowle, west past Grange Arch folly then a steep drop to the road. Near Steeple campsite a bridleway rose south into…
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E-Biking Across Snowdonia
Trans Cambrian Way Monks Trod (shortly) Wales. A great place to try the Tero out in the wilds over a few days. Snowdonia was the site of my first independent teenage adventures: trekking the snowy Carneddau; rock climbing Llanberis Pass; riding our Triumph 750s through Beddgelert, strung with colourful bunting for the 1977 Queen’s Jubilee.…
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Karakoram: Cycling China to Pakistan
See also: Himalaya. We’re Alive!Bikepacking Ladakh & Spiti Valley (soon) Central Asia has always intrigued me, a richly historic cultural crossroads with added mountains and deserts. I read Peter Hopkirk’s and Colin Thubron’s books on the region while working in a bookshop, but getting there with a motorbike (my usual ride) from the UK was…
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Dartmoor E-Bike Recce
Dartmoor has a mystique unmatched by other moorland areas in Britain. Or maybe it’s just me. I still recall the mist-bound moorland road as a teenager on the way to walk the Cornish Coast Path. Elton John’s Funeral for a Friend was on the cassette; the track starts with a suitably chilling wind and sonorous…
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E-Biking Alps to Ocean (NZ)
After six days riding three e-MTBs along New Zealand’s 300-km Alps to Ocean bike trail (A2O map below), in early 2026, again I wonder if e-MTBs are an answer to trail biking here in the UK where there are way more cycle-friendly bridleways than moto permissible byways, let alone the wild expanse of the Scottish…
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Himalaya: ‘We’re Alive!!”
See also: Kashgar China to Chitral Pakistan. Late in the 2009 season, we flew to Leh in lovely Ladakh, then cycled south across Himalayan passes up to 5200 metres. By now acclimatised to riding at this elevation, we decided to string it out and, just before the once notorious Rohtang Pass for Manali (now tunnelled),…
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Bikerafting Christchurch Harbour
See also: Electrifying the Dahoe Last year I bought myself a Dahon folding bike, a long-established American brand with a French sounding name that’s probably made in China and in the UK is much less pricey than a Brompton. Folders seem to be going cheap right now as older folk move to e-bikes (ahem).At least…
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E-Bikepacking Glyndwrs Way
Yes you have to pedal it (and probably transport it), but once you reach an age when you can’t tear around on MTBs like you used to, but recognise that you must ‘use it or lose it’ to maintain good health, an e-MTB can open up a huge range of trails in Britain’s wilder corners…
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Sahara by 2WD Fatbike
Some images and info from Cyclo Long Cours and Blida Nostalgie In 1986, long before the current fat-bike fashion (left), Jean Naud, a 55-year-old Frenchman set off to ride his three-wheeled bicycle 3200-km across the Sahara from Algiers to Timbuktu. Brought up in Blida, just south of Algiers at the foot of the Atlas mountains, Jean Naud had made two…