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A collection of adventure cycling journeys, conversations, events and news stories that celebrate the spirit of travelling by bike...
REPORT / TIAN SHAN BIKEPACKING EXPEDITION 2022
Travel-writer, round-the-world cyclist and friend of Pannier, Julian Sayarer, joined the first edition of our Kyrgyzstan Expedition in June 2022. As the second edition of Tian Shan nears, Julian shares his experience of our backcountry journey east, through the 'celestial' mountains…
by JULIAN SAYARER, STEF AMATO
WHAT WOULD MARY DO?
Back in the summer of 1936, 17-year-old Mary Harvie set out from Glasgow with her two sisters Ella and Jean to ride their bikes more than 500 miles between youth hostels in the Scottish Highlands. Eighty-five years after Mary's trip, Philippa, Alice & Lee follow in their tracks - bikepacking north through Scotland..
by PHILIPPA BATTYE & Maciek Tomiczek
BACK AND PORTH: DAYPACKING CORNWALL
Stef joins Holly and Jack on the Cornish Coast for a couple of ace days riding the new Cotic Cascade bikepacking bike. Expect clifftop and copper mine gravel, sea-foam shorelines, trailers, surfboards, fins, hand-planes, and raclette on the beach...
by STEF AMATO, SAM FIRTH & RICH BAYBUTT
ESCAPE TRACKS: NORTH YORK MOORS BIKEPACKING
Katie, Stef and Duncan take the train to the coast - the end-of-the-line at Scarborough - and escape on an overnight bikepacking adventure into the heart of the North York Moors National Park...
by STEF AMATO & DUNCAN PHILPOTT
COASTING: BIKEPACKING THE NORCORN COASTLINE
Alighting the Sleeper Train at the south-western tip of Great Britain, Luke, El, Kitty and Stef journey along the North Cornwall coastline - meeting up with friends along the way. Expect coastlines and lanes, seawall pasties, mizzle, coffee roasters and clifftop crousts, beach riding and cookouts, ferry hops, and alcohol-free beers...
by STEFAN AMATO & JORDAN GIBBONS
LOST WAYS: E-BIKEPACKING THE WEST KERNOW WAY, CORNWALL
Seven head to Cornwall to ride Cycling UK's newest off-road bikepacking route - the West Kernow Way. Expect challenging coastlines, port pasties, hedgerows and hike-a-bikes, post-industrial gravel, seawater swims ... and electric gravel bikes
by STEFAN AMATO & JORDAN GIBBONS
FURTHER ADVENTURES IN ROUGH STUFF: BOOK
Introducing the much-anticipated follow-up to the first Rough Stuff Fellowship Archive book. Archivist, Mark, has been busy unearthing thousands more slides from RSF club folk, whose remarkable images document intrepid trips from a bygone bikepacking era. Available now on Kickstarter...
by PANNIER
REPORT // PEAKLAND RAMBLE 2020
Pannier Rambles are our series of weekend bikepacking experiences. The Peakland Ramble sees us leave the centre of Manchester at 9.00am on a Saturday and ride an ace mixed-terrain route through the heart of the Peak District National Park, before finishing up in Sheffield around 4.00pm on a Sunday. It's a goodun...!
by PANNIER
WESSEX WANDERINGS: BIKEPACKING KING ALFRED’S WAY
Five Ride Out Of Covid-19 Lockdown, onto King Alfred's Way - a new 350km bikepacking route around the ancient kingdom of Wessex; across vast downlands that somehow echo the comfort of a countryside in which man has always been at home...
by STEF AMATO & DAVE SEAR
PEAKLAND 35MM
Liam is no stranger to bikepacking. Having finished the Transcontinental Race a couple of months prior he joined the 2019 Peakland Ramble, shooting a lovely roll of film on his trusty Yashica T4 camera, along our road & gravel Sheffield to Manchester route through the Peak District National Park...
by LIAM CLARKE
A HIGHER CALLING // OPENING THE ‘HIGHEST ROAD’ IN EUROPE
While we’re locked down, work is going on in the Alps to clear the roads for another season’s cycling. Have you ever wondered how these majestical, treacherous alpine roads and passes are opened for us cyclists and bikepackers? Max Leonard transports us to the highest paved road in Europe...
by MAX LEONARD
LOST LANDS
The Frontier300 is a new UK coast-to-coast gravel route and event that weaves through the alluring Anglo-Scottish Borderlands, akin to the wailing westerlies. We head up to bikepack the 300-kilometre route and discover more about these lost lands, in the company of two world-record seekers...
by STEFAN AMATO & DUNCAN PHILPOTT
OUR BIKEPACKING / CYCLE TOUR & EXPEDITION KIT LISTS
What do you need to join one of our bikepacking tours or expeditions? We ride through the bike requirements, recommended kit list(s), what is available to hire from us, and frequently asked questions...
by PANNIER
BEHIND THE SCENES I – PODCASTING THE SILK ROAD MOUNTAIN RACE
As Stefano heads to Morocco to document the inaugural Atlas Mountain Race, we chatted with him to understand more about his journey behind the scenes - what it's like, and what it takes, to tell the story of a bikepacking race...
by STEFANO NUCERA, ANTONIO ABREU & DANIL USMANOV
RAINSPOTTING
Six of us alight the sleeper train at Corrour - the highest, remotest station on the West Highland Line - and 'go for a w̶a̶l̶k̶ ride' through the wintry, gloomy Grampian Mountains of Scotland. We track the old-established north-south drove roads and, in true drover style, explore the alluring moorland voids in between...
by STEFAN AMATO & DAVID SEAR
LtD GRAVEL RAID // ARE GRAVEL RACES AND EVENTS FOR ME?
Katherine takes a weekend off from dirt bikepacking, and heads to the LtD (Laurens ten Dam) Gravel Raid in the Eifel Region of Germany to find out if the rising number of gravel races and events are relevant and enjoyable for us 'slow' bikepackers...
by KATHERINE MOORE
REPORT // LAKELAND PASS-STORMER 2019
The photo report from the first edition of our 'Lakeland Pass-Stormer' tour – a two night, two day bikepacking adventure designed to show off the beauty and challenge of riding and hike-a-biking in the Lake District National Park...
by PANNIER
EXTRAORDINARY WORLDS // THE SILK ROAD MOUNTAIN RACE 2019
In the early hours of August 30th, Pannier.cc Pair - Stef & Dave - crossed the finish line of the 2019 Silk Road Mountain Race. Stef shares his experience of the extraordinary worlds of: Kyrgyzstan and Racing one of the toughest bikepacking events going...
by STEFAN AMATO & DAVID SEAR
WAYFARER CENTENARY
...we join the Rough Stuff Fellowship and Anfield Bicycle Club in the Berwyn Mountains of North Wales, to celebrate the first ride of what is now known as the 'Wayfarer' Pass, in 1919. Organised by cycling author and journalist, Jack Thurston....
by STEFAN AMATO
OUR SOLSTICE SOCIAL CAMP // 2019
Our Pannier.cc Solstice Bikepacking Camp is returning for its fourth year, and 2019 is shaping up to be a goodun. This time we are heading a little further north and pitching Pannier Basecamp in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, surrounded by deep dales and majestic moorland…