Welcome to tyretracks.org.uk - Angus Rivers' bicycle touring website

Why?

This website highlights some of the wonderful places I have been on a bicycle. I'll be keeping it updated with travelogs and photos and, with luck, I might even inspire you to go on some adventures of your own.

Where?

I first went on a bicycle tour at the age of thirteen, cycling in the Outer Hebrides with my parents. It rained a lot. After quite a break, I had the opportunity to get back in the saddle when Fraser proposed a trip to Peru in 2000. In 2001 I rode from Verona to Lake Garda with Malin. In 2003 I rode the fabulous Great Divide route in the Rockies, 2004 took me to Brittany and Normandy and then Croatia. In 2005 I took 6 months off work to return to South America and ride from Quito to Ushuaia. It was during this trip that I decided to try to make a website.

Who?

Angus: I'm working as a doctor in London and wondering when I'll have time to go away again. Re-living old memories instead.

Malin: my fiancee, Plant Biologist at Kew Gardens, now cycles everywhere and came with me to Garda, Croatia and Chile.

Fraser: investment banker in London, getting progressively less fit and trying to make up for it by buying nicer and nicer bikes. Andrew and I had to carry his gear in 2003 on the Divide. Nowadays we'd have to carry him.

Andrew: has the same desire to do silly things as me and was my companion in South America and on the Divide. Seems to be maintaining fitness despite working as a consultant in New York.

Jesse: American, teaching in Croydon. Has only mountain biked twice - at the SSMM 24 hour race where it poured with rain. Unsurprisingly, prefers the road.

All pictures are clickable

Please feel free to contact me: angusrivers@hotmail.com

News

28/7/06
I now have a page detailing a route across the Salar de Uyuni. And some pictures of Paris.

17/6/06
We're just back from 3 days mountain biking around the Lake District. Sometime soon, there'll be a story on the site. For now, here are the pictures.

5/5/06
Rode 70 mile race at Bracknell last weekend. Quite pleased with 12th place.

10/4/06
Added complete text of my South America blog.

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