Ard Moors 2025 was a blast. Challenging conditions all weekend on the full 35km enduro and the 28km sprint.
All of my images from the weekend can be found on Roots and Rain.
Category: MTB (Page 1 of 2)
Out in Kielder today for the Dirty Reiver 2025. One of the largest (if not THE largest) gravel events in the UK. I’ll be out taking photographs at a couple of different spots over the course of the day. The image below was taken at the start of last year’s event. It was pretty cold that morning.
Event photos from 2025 will be uploaded here –
It will take a day or two to process, upload and tag the full set.
I have been using a pair of Five Ten Trail Cross MTB shoes for the last few years as my go to biking shoe. Over the last few rides I had started to notice that the lace on one shoe was about to give up. Finding a suitable replacement was not easy.
Owning a carbon frame bike does have its issues. The main one after cost is how do you carry the bike on a car without clamping onto the frame. In the UK the choice is fairly limited and centres around two main roof mounted solutions. The first is the Yakima Highroad that we are looking at here and the second is the Thule UpRide.
Both of these systems clamp onto the front wheel/tyre and have no contact with the frame . As frame designs have progressed, some MTB frames have a lower shock position, being able to clamp a bike securely (carbon or not) has become more difficult.
Last weekend was a scorcher. The best part of 1000 riders faced the heat and trails of the North Yorkshire Moors to compete at the Ard Moors enduro.
Ard Moors is a six stage enduro race up and down some of the best trails North East England has to offer.
I based myself at the top of stage six on both the practice and race days.
My images from the event have been uploaded to Roots and Rain.
We are big fans of Sweet Protection at Unsponsored and have been using their paddling and biking gear for years. We first got hold of a Sweet Protection Bushwacker mountain biking helmet way back in 2014.
Since then we have owned, used, crashed and written off several!
Continue readingWe’ve been waiting on these to land for almost a year. Now that they are here we are going to take a quick look at the features and specifications.
The Ard Rock is a mountain bike enduro event and is based near the beautiful village of Reeth in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (UK).
Here are a few images from the weekend.
Day 1 – Friday
An early start Friday saw me on Stage 1 of the Ard Rock.
We do a fair bit of mountainbiking at Unsponsored HQ when there isn’t much water around and we have been using Five Ten shoes from the very start.
The newest addition to the flat pedal mountain bike range is the Five Ten Trail Cross. The version we have here is the Mid version which has much better ankle protection in the form of D30 inserts.
We’ve been using these weekly for well over a year now on a range of different bikes using DMR Vault flat pedals.
This year’s Boltby Bash Enduro had some epic action. As per 2019 Unsponsored was up at the top of stage 1 with a camera in hand.
Here are just a few of the 6k shots from the day 1.
We do a fair bit of mountainbiking at Unsponsored HQ when there isn’t much water around and we have been using Five Ten shoes from the very start.
The newest addition to the flat pedal mountain bike range is the Five Ten Trail Cross. The version we have here is the Mid version which has much better ankle protection in the form of D30 inserts.
I thought I’d post a few of my MTB Enduro shots from the last couple of years. I hope I’m starting to get my eye in.
Shots at the Ard Rock and Ard Moors 2018 were taken with a Nikon D500. All other shots were taken with a Sony Alpha A9.
The links will take you to my Roots and Rain pages where you’ll find tens of thousands of my images from these events.
Ard Rock 2018
Pure Land Expeditions
Northshore Watersports
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