Rainspotting – our second film together with Brother Cycles (following Beulah, 2016) – tracks our 84-hour wintry bikepacking ramble through Scotland’s gloomy Grampians. Expect sleeper trains, snow, rain, magical munro mountains, gravel, cullen skinks, cranachans, bogs, bridges, and la-di-dah land-owners as we tested some options for our Highland Drover Tour, and Brother Cycles put their new Mehteh bike to the test proper…
*UPDATE* In light of all our film screening & talk cancellations due to Coronavirus, we are releasing the film via “Watch Party” at 19.30GMT Wednesday 25th March 2020. And, we’d love as many of you to join as possible…
JOIN THE WATCH PARTY / WATCH THE FILM IN YOUR OWN TIME…
Watch party [n.]
When folk ‘get together’ to watch the same video/film online, in real-time. Nope, we’d never heard of one until now, either…
Comments (and heckles) welcomed!
Check the poster, and watch the one-minute teaser. If it sounds like your camp-mug of tea, or you’re intrigued, then please come see the film and us all, at one of the below screenings/Q&A’s:
1 / SHEFFIELD: 21-22 March 2020 (ShAFF Films / ShAFF Talk-Q&A)
2 / BRISTOL: 26 March 2020 (Business As Usual)
3 / LONDON: 07 April 2020 (Cloud9 / NLA)
4 / MANCHESTER: 23 April 2020 (Rapha Manchester)
For the feature story on the trip, head to the Pannier Journal >> Rainspotting
When will the rain actually end?!
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
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...