Travels
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E-Biking Wales • Wye Valley & Forest Of Dean
See also: Wales Heatwave #5 of the 2026 summer was getting underway, a good day to be in the shady Forest of Dean and the Wye Valley, following another route from the Bikepacking Wales (BPW) guidebook. From Pembrokeshire it was a half-day drive towards Chepstow, made easier by the M4, aircon and podcasts.After yesterday’s short coastal…
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E-Biking Wales • Kerry Ridgeway & PEMBROKE COAST
See also: Wales After the Ice Cap retreated around 10,666BC, the best way for a wayfarer to get around Britain was to follow the high ground above the tree line of the densely forested plains, the haunts of evil elves, brigands and giant sabre-toothed squirrels. The Ridgeway in England is a well known ancient trackway, but…
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E-Biking Wales • Coast & Cadair Idris
See also: Wales Riding down from Llandundo Junction in June following the the Trans Eryri Trail across Snowdonia on my way to the Trans Cambrian Way, I reached a crossroads south of Arthog. Ahead of me, water was running down a stony trail which led around to the west flank of the Cadair Idris massif. It…
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E-biking Wales • Strata Florida
See also: Wales I t’s back to Wales to try out my new bike transporter, tick off the bits of the Trans Eryri and Trans Cambrian Trails I skipped in the June washout which damaged my Tero e-bike, and try some other biking routes from the Bikepacking Wales book I recently reviewed (right). I headed…
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E-Biking WALES • the Monks Trod
See also: Wales 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 built 800 years…
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E-Bikepacking Trans Cambrian Way
Trans Snowdonia with E-bikeRiding the Monks Trod 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 west into the prevailing winds then ended at Dovey of all places, a forlorn rail stop marooned…
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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 postsPurbeck Rides 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…
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E-Biking Snowdonia’s Trans Eryri
See also: WalesTrans Cambrian Way 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. Blue Remembered…
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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…