velomaniac
MacRetro Rider
Tentsmuir Saturday 1st June 2013, meet Leuchars Train Station ready to ride for 1pm
This run I'm promoting both here and on UKFatBike as it should sit well with both camps and is not retro specific. I'll try and coordinate with both groups to a day on one of the weekends that suits the most folk.
I have a hankering now that I'm getting the hang of this Fat Biking malarchy to go to the place that my mountainbiking career first took root. Tentsmuir forest in the north east tip of Fife is basically a commercial forest planted on sand beside a wide flat expanse of estuary sand by the sea and is nearly flat as a pancake and the reason nearby Leuchars air base was built there.
I was a student in Dundee when I bought my first mtb and I slogged along to Tentsmuir many times to learn my mtb skills or lack of. I managed to pull off every stupid manouver that could result in a crash there but thanks to the sand did not result in pain and breakage.
Tentsmuir is also perfect fat biking territory if flat land is your thing but the forest still has some entertaining sections to mtb on.
Further for the military history buffs, the places is littered with anti tank blocks and pillboxes plus Clubby has led me to believe you can cycle to the far end of RAF Leuchars run way which could be fun if planes are taking off and landing.
So I was thinking anyone want to have a ride around the forest and beach of Tentsmuir on Saturday 1st June.
Any takers ?
This run I'm promoting both here and on UKFatBike as it should sit well with both camps and is not retro specific. I'll try and coordinate with both groups to a day on one of the weekends that suits the most folk.
I have a hankering now that I'm getting the hang of this Fat Biking malarchy to go to the place that my mountainbiking career first took root. Tentsmuir forest in the north east tip of Fife is basically a commercial forest planted on sand beside a wide flat expanse of estuary sand by the sea and is nearly flat as a pancake and the reason nearby Leuchars air base was built there.
I was a student in Dundee when I bought my first mtb and I slogged along to Tentsmuir many times to learn my mtb skills or lack of. I managed to pull off every stupid manouver that could result in a crash there but thanks to the sand did not result in pain and breakage.
Tentsmuir is also perfect fat biking territory if flat land is your thing but the forest still has some entertaining sections to mtb on.
Further for the military history buffs, the places is littered with anti tank blocks and pillboxes plus Clubby has led me to believe you can cycle to the far end of RAF Leuchars run way which could be fun if planes are taking off and landing.
So I was thinking anyone want to have a ride around the forest and beach of Tentsmuir on Saturday 1st June.
Any takers ?
