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TOASTING Life at 15KPH...

A collection of adventure cycling journeys, conversations, events and news stories that celebrate the spirit of travelling by bike...

Journey | KYRGYZSTAN

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
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Journey | CAIRNGORMS, SCOTLAND

LIVING WILDS: BIKEPACKING THE CAIRNGORMS LOOP

A signature British bikepacking escape amongst sparse, silent lands. Two-hundred kilometres of the finest gravel tracks, forest-floor and loch-skirting singletrack, and hike-a-bike? Bikepacking the Cairngorms Loop is hard to beat...

by STEF AMATO & JORDAN GIBBONS
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Journey | KENT, UK

KENT DOWNS LOOP: BIKEPACKING THE CANTII WAY

We discover the English county of Kent over three days, riding Cycling UK's latest multi-day bikepacking route - the Cantii Way. Expect coastline, cathedral and cinque-port towns, vineyards, and seafood shacks with this accessible adventure on London's doorstep...

by STEF AMATO & JORDAN GIBBONS
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Journey | SCOTLAND

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
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Journey | CORNWALL, UK

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
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Journey | NORTH YORK MOORS, UK

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
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Journey | CORNWALL, UK

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
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Journey | CORNWALL, UK

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
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Journey | BIRMINGHAM-CARMARTHEN

THE RAREBIT RAMBLE: BROMPTON BIKEPACKING

Bikepacking on Bromptons? Oh yes. We hire bikes from one of the Brompton Hire Docks in Birmingham, and ride/train/push our way through the heart of Mid-Wales on a cross-country adventure to Carmarthen. Connecting cities, people and places, by bike...

by STEFAN AMATO & DAVID SEAR
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Journey | INAPPROPRIATE PLACES FOR BIKES

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
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Journey | SIERRAS, CALIFORNIA

FILM: THE LONG WAY AROUND

Lael, Chris, Erik & Rue explore the High Sierras of California with bikes and bike backpacks. With their initial plans for an east-west traverse of the Sierras burning down time-and-time-again, they opted for a 300KM circular bikepacking route - upwards, further into untamed country where roads turned to trails...

by PANNIER
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Journey | NORWAY

FILM: LOST CAPTURES

Lost Captures follows Matty and Clare bikepacking through Norway, from Bergen, as they re-trace the tracks of Matty's Grandfather, Bob, who toured Scandinavia by bike in the 1950s...

by MATTY WAUDBY & CLARE NATTRESS
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Journey | PEAK DISTRICT N.P. (UK)

HOMESCAPES: PEAK DISTRICT

A S36O bikepacking trip through our local Peak District National Park playground in search of the finest rocky roads, Bakewell Puddings and Derbyshire Oatcakes…

by STEF AMATO & DUNCAN PHILPOTT
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Journey | NIDDERDALE, ENGLAND

BIKEFISHING THE SECRET DALE

Bikefishing? Oh yes. We strap fishing rods, flies, and overnight kit to our gravel bikes for a bike-fishing journey along the River Nidd. Along the way, we meet up with Nidderdale AONB fly fisherman, Oscar, who takes us upstream fishing in the river and stillwater fishing at the local upland reservoir. Time to see what the bike fishing hype is all about...

by STEF AMATO & DUNCAN PHILPOTT
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Trips & Events | PEAK DISTRICT, UK

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
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Journey | BOLIVIA

YUNGAS DUST

Zeger pedals off on a rollercoaster bikepacking adventure, looping from La Paz - Bolivia’s capital - through the Yungas jungle on the infamous Yungas Road. Expect stunning snaking dirt roads, smiles, lush landscapes, and alpacas...

by ZEGER DOX
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Journey | WESSEX, UK

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
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Journey | SIERRAS DE CAZORLES NATIONAL PARK, SPAIN

THE WILDS OF SIERRAS DE CAZORLES

Valencia-dweller, Pedro, sets off on a five-day circular bikepacking route, from local-ish Elche de la Sierra, to explore the wilds, back roads, tracks, and trails of Sierras de Cazorles National Park by bike...

by Pedro Mecinas Martínez
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Journey | PEAK DISTRICT, UK

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
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Kit & Equipment | GRAVEL WILDS

WARBIRD – THE FLIGHT OF THE ‘OG’ ORIGINAL GRAVEL BIKE?

What makes a bike a gravel bike? Tom Hill heads back to 2008, and delves into the development of The Salsa Warbird - widely considered the original 'og' gravel bike - a genre-defining machine that has changed the perception of what is possible on drop-barred bicycles…

by PANNIER
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Journey | SOUTH DOWNS WAY, UK

FILM: BIKEPACKING THE SOUTH DOWNS WAY

Last summer, four friends rode the South Downs Way - an ancient 100-mile ridgeline that spans the southeast coast of England. From Winchester to Eastbourne the historic chalk path has over 3500m of climbing and not a car in sight; rolling steep hills as far as the eye can see - an ideal UK bikepacking playground...

by GEORGE MARSHALL, NEIL, ANNA, LIAM & SOPH
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INTERVIEW | FRENCH ALPS

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
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INTERVIEW | MID-OF-NOWHERE

THE GRAVEL-RIDING ADVENTURE-CYCLING BIKEPACKING CYCLE-TOURING ‘RULES’

Call it what you want: bikepacking; adventure cycling; gravel riding; cycle touring ... these are our lighthearted list of so-called 'rules' for you to check out, add to, and/or call out! Some more serious than others, obviously. See what you think...

by PANNIER
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Journey | PALESTINE

DOWN TO JERICHO

Cycle touring author, Julian Sayarer, released his latest work today - Fifty Miles Wide. A book / on his journey along the roads of Israel and occupied Palestine - a route that weaves from the ancient hills of Galilee, along blockaded walls of the Gaza Strip, and down to the Bedouin villages of the Naqab Desert. He shares a couple of extracts from the book...

by JULIAN SAYARER
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Journey | HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE

PANNIER LENS // PHOTO REVIEW: 1

Over the home-bound Easter Break we set a handful of regular Pannier Photographers a challenge: an Easter hunt, to seek-out six of their favourite photos from Pannier bikepacking days gone by...

by PANNIER
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Journey | ANGLO-SCOTTISH BORDER

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
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Journey | Scottish Highlands

RAINSPOTTING / WATCH HERE

Our Rainspotting bikepacking feature film (17-minutes), the Rainspotting Outtakes (4-minutes), and the results of The Great Rainspotting Sketch Off all in one handy place...

by PANNIER
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Kit & Equipment | PANNIER HQ

PANNIER POCKET ZINE // 2020

Introducing our first pocket-sized compendium of all things Pannier, bikepacking and life at #15KPH...

by PANNIER
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Kit & Equipment | PANNIER BASECAMP

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
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Journey | SNOWDONIA N.P. (WALES)

FURTHLINES

In the wake of Storm Dennis, we explore the roads, gravel tracks and infrastructure lines of Snowdonia National Park's Carneddau Mountains. As we ride up, into the snow-sprinkled shadows of two Furth peaks, we slowly unearth a very humbling story of human influence in the mountains...

by STEFAN AMATO & DUNCAN PHILPOTT
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Journey | THE GLOOMY GRAMPIANS

FILM: RAINSPOTTING

Our new bikepacking film with Brother Cycles - tracks our 84-hour bikepacking ramble through Scotland's gloomy Grampians - IS OUT *09 APRIL 2020*. Watch the teaser, check the poster and join us on 25th March 2020 at 19.30GMT for our Watch Party...

by PANNIER
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Other | PEAK DISTRICT, UK

UNPAVED PODCAST: MAPS & APPS

Join us and the Second City Divide folks in the Peak District as we ride a local Dark Peak reservoir route and record episode two of the new Unpaved adventure cycling / bikepacking podcast...

by PANNIER
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Journey | KYRGYZSTAN

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
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Journey | CENTRAL HIGHLANDS, SCOTLAND

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
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Kit & Equipment | PANNIER HQ

GOYT // BIKEPACKING KIT & GEAR OF THE YEAR, 2019

Not like us to do kit reviews, but following a big year of bikepacking - guiding, recce-ing and racing - we've introduced our annual Pannier.cc 'Gear of the Year' Selection. Welcome to Edition I...

by PANNIER
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