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Best summer wetsuits for UK waters

The UK might not seem like the obvious place to go for a dip in […]

Kit review: The Clug bike storage solution

It comes in a small box measuring about 3cms x 3.5cms x 3.5cms. It looks […]

GoodSport Manuka Enhanced Anti-Chafing Cream

Rubs, sores, chafing, call it what you want, but every sports person will have suffered. […]

Three different compasses for map reading

Like many people I own a Silva Compass. Silva is a very well-known brand and […]

Mullardoch Munros: Wet and windy hiking

Scotland’s summer of 2015 has been almost non-existent. But, last Friday, the sun shone and […]

Wash smelly sports kit at 30°C?

I remember my mum telling me (or maybe it was a boyfriend’s mum… but it […]

Kit review: Saucony Kinvara 6

Saucony makes a big claim, that their new Kinvara 6 trainers are “just a few […]

Kit review: Lava BrightSounds speaker and lamp

I know all about Bluetooth and I am still slightly wowed by the wonder of […]

What’s in your summer rucksack?

Britain might be in the middle of a heatwave (at least, in some areas) but […]

Summer 2015: Coping with the weather!

NikWax reckons it can help this summer, whether you are living in rainy Scotland or […]

Me. An outdoors expert in the Indie!

I am very pleased to have been asked as an outdoors expert for my top cycling […]

My new N+1 and a few lightbulb moments

When I told my daughter I was buying a new bike she questioned why: “But […]