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Original image by Chris Yunker Ah, Edinburgh. We’re thrilled to see the perennial favourite retain it’s crown as Favourite UK City for the 12th year running, and more than a little proud it continues to beat big sister London yet again – not to mention some of the UK’s other fantastic cities. If you voted, [...]

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Looking back through Pinkbike’s Photo Of The Day archive I found this wee gem from 2008. It’s easy to miss the beauty of Innerleithen when you’re there simply to throw yourself down it as quickly as possible, but this photo really encapsulates just how great it can look. Great shot. Link to original here.

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Just picked up on a reallly useful thread going on over at the SingleTrackWorld forum about which Munros are best for mountain biking. So many to choose from and loads I’d never heard of, so if you want to try riding somewhere new (and that is actually a real mountain!) this is a great place [...]

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Another Scottish Photo Of The Day over at pinkbike.com. This time it’s Cedric Gracia and a cheeky one-hander/thumbs up over the kicker into the final drop in. Sheer class from Cedric as usual – unfortunately no photos of his no-hander off the step-down! Original here.

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Nice piece in the New York Times today about a poetry fan’s impulsive trip to Luing having read Don Paterson’s poem Landing Light. …and yet there I was, clawing my way through the wet and lichen-encrusted tangle on a Scottish hillside, with limbs of bracken swatting me in the face and my Wellington boots failing [...]

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