Cycling musings and stories from a life on two wheels
A family bike ride around Loch Leven
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 12,5.12 Scot Tares enjoys a family day out on two-wheels “Bicycles have no walls” – Paul Cornish Cycling is an activity that does not discriminate against age and this makes it the ideal activity for a family day out. Kids of all ages……
Schiehalion and the Etape Caledonia
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 5,5.12 Scot Tares looks forward to tomorrow’s Etape Caledonia with three road routes on Schiehallion “You can say that climbers suffer the same as other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you’re glad to be there”……
Exploring Tayside and Fife on Two Wheels
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 28.4.12 Out on a bike in Tayside Get on your bike – Scot Tares highlights the fitness benefits of cycling and urges us to get out on two wheels in Tayside and Fife… “Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has……
Mountain biking in the Sidlaws
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 14.4.12 Scot Tares rides in a wilderness just at the back of Dundee “Shred Lightly” – Scot Nicol For me mountain biking can be a moral dilemma. On one hand I love the wilderness and unspoilt beauty of many areas, and want to……
Classic Bikes
Taken from the Blazing Saddles Column in the Tayside Courier Weekend Supplement 7.4.12 Scot Tares extols the beauty of the bicycle. “Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.” – Grant Petersen I have often felt sorry for bicycles that spend the best days of their lives quietly neglected in……
