Having spent three years as the Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling champ (1998-2000), I like to think I’ve done my bit at getting down and dirty. But if you want to see real bog cycling, take a look at Ian Hibell’s legendary crossing of the Darien Gap in Panama. Ian was tragically killed last year after being hit by a car in Greece, but his extraordinary accomplishments on the bike – the first man to cycle the length of the American continent, amongst many other achievements – will always remain.
Bog snorkelling? You ain’t seen nothing.
Mon, Jan 26, 2009 11:13
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Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He’s won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and likes to ride increasingly long audaxes decreasingly fast as time goes by.
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Sedis 4 minutes ago
@mdavidford Thanks, I'll try an remember to take a tape measure next time I'm walking that way.
chrisonabike 4 minutes ago
I'm not getting the disapproval here? Some of this is right up there with the best of Mark V. Shaney's work on Usenet. It hovers, Dylanesque, between the trite and the incomprehensible:
Smoggysteve 7 minutes ago
@Rendel Harris Thats just a trainer. im talking about the Zwift bike frame instead of your own outdoor bike. There is no other direct competition other than getting a wattbike or similar. I have a Tacx Neo 2 trainer I use. I looked at the Zwift bike specifically for its setup specifically and this is direct competition for that one particular item
Rendel Harris 24 minutes ago
@Smoggysteve Genuine question, if budget is a consideration, as of course it is for most of us, why not buy one of the cheaper trainers that features Zwift Cog and Click, like the Van Rysel D100 (£279rrp) or D500 (£379 on special at Sigma Sports) and a sound and solid old bike to put on it permanently for £100 or less (easy to make a stand for the front fork if space is a consideration and you don't want to leave the front wheel on). £599 just for the frame seems an awful lot for what it is.
Liam Mercer 30 minutes ago
@mudfish Yep, FoD. My first session was with Wye MTB as part of a coaching/guiding package, the other two were with Sam at Katy Curd Coaching. Very thoroughly recommend both.
Smoggysteve 59 minutes ago
I'm interested to see if Zwift drops the price of its Ride + Kickr Core setup in response to this. Ive looked at getting one 'used' and the £600 is roughly to price you see. So this make the rival setup quite appealing if you're in the market for an indoor specific setup.
AidanR 1 hour ago
I doubt it - the article would be better written.
Mr Blackbird 3 hours ago
Well I'm in Cambridgeshire and I think it is poor. If I had written this sort of thing at school, I probably wouldn't have been entered for O-level English Language. I admit I'm not very knowledgeable in such matters, but would this article have been generated by AI?
Terry Hutt 10 hours ago
@chrisonabike The only way the next iteration of beings will value the world is if that attitude improves your chances of mating. Ladies, I REALLY value the world we inhabit😊
mdavidford 12 hours ago
Well now, let's not be hasty. We should get the views of a range of audiences first. For instance, how's it gone down with readers in the Surrey area?