Angus Cycling Festival Fatbike ride; Tentsmuir Forest 11th September 2016

I drove up with friend Craig to Tentsmuir Forest in Fife on Sunday morning for this years Angus Cycling Festival Fatbike ride,
Organised by Angus Cycling Hub it is one of many cycling events organised over a month of festivities ...

Twenty something riders turned up, with some freebie Squirt Dry chain lube - ideal for sand riding and bike wash  handed out, and Progression Bikes  Genesis Demo bikes set up for their riders, the trail guides led up on a loop around the forest taking in some beach, forest tracks and some of the sweet sandy single track through the pine woods.
The sun came out as we finished the ride and we sat in the sun and ate food and had a laugh.
A fun day out with friends old and new...

Craig took the following pics...

I shot some film but the camera was set a bit too low for being on the narrow field of vision setting!...
Song is `Slow Mama`  by Black Moses...

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Angus Cycling Festival; Fatbike Ride!

I met Dave B when he drove down to Gullane to buy some Jones handlebars i was selling, was impressed at the coast and returned along with Jamie to Forth Fat. He mentioned he was going to organise something for fatbikes back home and invited me up. I was the only rider from EL who made it and enjoyed the scenic 100 mile drive north over the Forth Bridge with the old Pugsley on the back into the heart of the highlands to Glamis on Sunday morning to attend the first highland Fatbike Gathering that was organised by Dave B and friends, Frank drove up from Ayrshire, and Ben from Edinburgh to meet Dave`s friends.

The Fatbike ride was part of the Angus Cycling Festival,  a week of celebrating all things cycling related,

East Lothian;  Why can our great wee county not organise something like this?, all types of cycling took place for all ages and abilities around Angus, and we have superb cycling for everyone on all types of bikes here.

Back to the Angus Fatbike day,
There was some Genesis demo bikes from sponsors`s Progression Bikes  and free Squirt Dry chain lube sent up by Carl at Squirt UK .

13 happy riders turned up, a good turn out,
pic by Dave B...

We got a 20km guided tour of fine woodland trails through Glamis estate finishing under huge trees in the estate imported from all round the globe outside the impressive Glamis Castle...

I never got many pics in the woods of the trails as too busy riding, so here are some pics at re group stops and on tracks, old railway lines etc...

Lovely mix of agricultural scenery and heather hills...

Free bike wash...

pic by Dave B...

Some film shot on the handlebar mounted Go Pro,
Song is `Simplon` by my big bro on Stormcloud, link;  Scottishnatureboy


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YouTube upload is not as good quality but some folks mobile devices have been struggling with vimeo,




Great day out...

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