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Mar 1, 2019
5 min

The Wild West. Wow.

It's one of those things for our little brand - getting out for a ride isn't always easy. Last Saturday, at the end of an unseasonably cl...

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Tour de North. A 5 Day Adventure Across the North of England.

Sam Marshall (Guest)

Oct 12, 2018
8 min

Tour de North. A 5 Day Adventure Across the North of England.

Every now and then, someone contacts us to tell us about a recent adventure in the Cold Dark North. There's no real definition to where t...

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The Ice Cream: A 300km DIY Audax in the Dales

Toby WIllis (Guest)

May 11, 2018
5 min

The Ice Cream: A 300km DIY Audax in the Dales

As you may have heard, we love to help our fellow riders with crazy challenges. Especially when they combine a relentless pursuit of new ...

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Tobes

Apr 6, 2018
3 min

No Through Road. No Problem.

If you're anything like me you'll know the anguish of not being able to vary a ride beyond an out-and-back. I'll go to ludicrous lengths ...

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The 10th Anniversary Coal Road Challenge

Tobes

Mar 10, 2018
3 min

The 10th Anniversary Coal Road Challenge

The Lune RCC Coal Road Challenge 2018 Before the Beast from the East arrived in the first week of March 2018, we were treated to ten beau...

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The Cold Dark North Grimpeur - A DIY Audax

Jason Hemingway (Guest)

Nov 10, 2017
10 min

The Cold Dark North Grimpeur - A DIY Audax

We're often asked for help with routes that people are putting together as well as guidance on local hills to seek out or avoid. It was w...

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Tobes

Oct 6, 2017
3 min

A Lap of Helvellyn

We're quite often asked to plan a route for people coming up to visit the Cold Dark North for some other purpose but wanting to squeeze i...

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