FionaOutdoors

Keen mountain biker Karl Mott spotted a gap in the outdoors market while studying at college in Edinburgh. The business studies graduate couldn’t afford a car and so he struggled to find the transport to reach MTB Mecca Glentress, some 20 miles south of the city near Peebles. Now Karl and his wife Abie have [...]

If you like cycling (of all kinds) then you’ll love this new event: The Scottish Bike Show 2011. The Scottish Bike Show 2011 is being staged at the SECC, Glasgow, on Saturday and Sunday April 16 and 17 and for the first time ever the country’s growing cycling community – road, mountain bike, street trials, [...]

It’s great to see more campaigns aimed at getting women on their bikes. The latest is a Women-only “Learn to Ride” Biking Festival at Pollok Country Park in Glasgow on Sunday April 3. Although I have seen a rise in the numbers of women out on their bikes in recent years there are still far [...]

Scottish mountain biking Mecca Glentress is to host a new seven-hour endurance event called the Glentress Seven. The flagship event will kickstart this year’s expanded TweedLove cycling festival, from June 11 to 19. 2011. Former professional rider and one of the masterminds of the highly popular but now threatened Hub at Glentress, Emma Guy, along [...]

I love the idea of mountain biking. And I have enjoyed many trips to Scotland’s fab mountain biking centres including the Scottish Mecca, Glentress, and Kirroughtree, Mabie, Learnie Red Rocks and Laggan Wolftrax. But I’m still an under-confident mountain biker. I like to put my feet down whenever I see a possible slippery situation ahead. [...]

Super Bendy Laney… you know who you are! … this is the kit review you’ve been waiting for! Not that you imagine for a second that it’ll come in useful for you (so you say, although you just never know when the notion to convert from your super bendy yoga to cycling will come over [...]

The other day I was a mile or so into my hour’s bike ride when I realised I did not have my helmet on. I’d already put on my running beanie and so I can only think that when I left the house it “felt” as though I was wearing a helmet. I noticed I [...]

More fabulous Scottish events to keep you training through the winter. Some of these No Fuss events take place during the chilly season, while others will give you a goal for when the temperatures rise again. Also see Get Yourself a Goal and Get Yourself a Goal Part II The No Fuss Events 2011 Calendar [...]

Elizabeth Adams is a true Scotland outdoors adventure-seeker. I know her through the Glasgow Triathlon Club and whenever we meet she has just completed another bonkers event – and is looking for to her next. She’s into running, cycling, mountain biking and kayaking, to name a few pursuits. This month she signed up for the [...]

A friend has decided that his next fitness challenge is to do more “unusual” and “adventure-style” events. He’s a generally fit guy and keen to do more running off-road, and some cycling. But  with two young children, a busy job and his final year of an Open University engineering course he has little time for [...]