{"id":141,"date":"2025-04-05T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/?p=141"},"modified":"2025-04-05T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:14:20","slug":"tyred-out-cycling-adventures-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iworm.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/04\/05\/tyred-out-cycling-adventures-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyred Out – Cycling adventures in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A collection of short travelogues and stories about cycling adventures in Scotland.

Starting with a crash, then crossing the country from coast to coast, visiting the islands and west coast, and ending with some bikepacking, a haunted bothy and a race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Starting in Kyle of Lochalsh in the north-west and crossing the widest part of Scotland to reach the east coast in Montrose, it looked good. It promised adventure, beauty and excellent mountain biking, all contained within a five to seven day long, 270 kilometre mostly off-road route. The more of the route description I read, the more interested I became. I’d never really contemplated the possibility of a multi-day mountain biking trip before, but as I read on, it seemed like a pretty good way to spend a holiday.”

“It was the middle of winter. One of the wettest, most miserable winters in living memory.”

“The trees were a frozen whitish shade of green, crystals of ice clinging to the pine needles. The steam from our breath drifted across and made cloudy patterns in our beams of light.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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