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Steve
May 6, 20191 min
Slack Life lessons.
I've been doing a fair amount of Slack Lining lately. I've needed time away from riding my bike to get a fresh prospective on what I'm...
Steve
Mar 6, 20193 min
Humans of Climbing - 'The Fear'
Here is a piece I wrote for UKClimbing, for a feature they are doing called - Humans of Climbing. It made me reflect on what climbing...
Steve
Oct 30, 20185 min
Wild about Argyll
Wild about Argyll - A gravel bike packing adventure. It was quite a challenge to convince Ibrahim to head to the south west coast instead...
Steve
Oct 23, 20181 min
Focus - The Trailer is here.....
I'm really please to announce that our film Focus, has made the selection for both Banff International Adventure Film Festival, and also...
Steve
Sep 23, 20181 min
Gravel - South Downs Way
Here's my latest film with Jon Gildea and Jaco VanGass, of a wee ride in the South Downs, Winchester. We had amazing weather, and Jon...
Steve
Sep 11, 20182 min
Sonder Colibri - The Bike
Here is a run down of my Sonder Colibri for Scotland:Project24. It took me a while to get this set up right, so I could ride for long...
Steve
Sep 10, 20185 min
Scotland: Project24
It’s four o’clock in the morning, and I’m sitting in the toilets on a deck chair at the GlenShe Ski Centre Car park. I’m having...
Steve
Sep 5, 20182 min
Scotland - A land of adventure.
Ever since living in Scotland it has held a special place in my heart. I feel there is a life time of adventures to be had in the north,...
Steve
Jul 17, 20185 min
Polar opposites
I thought as I was walking down to the shop today (I know, walking?) about the calendar on our kitchen wall, which has all the important...
Steve
Jun 17, 20184 min
Nationals
Isn’t it frightening when a face you don’t instantly recognise say’s “hi Steve, do you remember me?” I’m sitting on the ground, in the...
Steve
May 22, 20181 min
Filmed by Bike
At last I can finally share with you our journey through Patagonia in November 2016. It took me a year to make this film (not because...
Steve
Mar 5, 20181 min
Rov 150 kit list video
For those of you asking about a kit list for the Rovaniemi 150, here you go. Hopefully it should answer some of your questions, if not, I...
Steve
Feb 23, 201811 min
Arctic Monkies
I tell Ibrahim to turn on the GoPro, and I turn my head and watch bikes, skiers and runners disappearing past us up the frozen river in...
Steve
Feb 20, 20184 min
Rovaniemi 150
I look at the long range forecast, it reads -19. All sorts of thoughts run through my mind, as I think about what it will feel like on...
Steve
Jan 22, 20187 min
#9.
Over the past few weeks I’ve seen plenty of people posting their nine best or favourite photos of 2017 on social media. It’s always great...
Steve
Nov 13, 20175 min
Back in Black
A recent wild idea has sparked an old fear, something I gave up long ago due to the diagnosis of losing my vision. Like giving up my...
Steve
Nov 3, 20179 min
RAB
As my eyes struggled to focus on the road in the dark, driving rain and bright head lights, I remember thinking to myself that I was...
Steve
Nov 3, 20173 min
Searching for Haggis
The north of Scotland will always hold a small piece of my heart. In another life I travelled through the Highlands with a climbing rope...
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