BIKE, SKATE + SCOOTER

The quarterly mountain biking magazine created by mountain bikers.

Cranked #25 is all about mixing it up.

A Scotsman exiled in Spain gathers together some mates to test lockdown legs on a multi-day adventure, while a young Canadian brings snowboard style and attitude to mountain bike riding and a Scottish BMXer discovers that big wheels behave differently in the air.

Meanwhile, Geoff Waugh talks to (probably) the nicest man in mountain biking, Steve Behr slows down, Pete Scullion discovers there’s more to a Scottish Munro than meets the eye and two old friends who probably ought to know better set up a bike company.


Issue 25 is unmissable.

• Dylan Siggers – adults are stupid. Word.
• Adventure – getting away from it all in the mountains
• Nick Craig – legends aren’t born, they’re made out of gritstone and determination and all things nice
• Elsie & Adam – a little helping hand. Er, leg.
• Attraction – science, politics and mountain biking meet on a Scottish Munro

The Meaning of Trust in Adventure.

In Sidetracked Volume 21, the best stories of adventure in our time have been collected: groundbreaking journeys, pioneering ascents, endurance in the face of escalating challenges, and moments of quiet beauty in nature.

In ‘Polar Shadows’, Vincent Colliard and Caroline Côté face the long, brutal night of the Arctic winter with little beyond their reliance on one another to keep them going. Mónica Fuentes and Alberto Ojembarrena dig deep and trust in each other’s capabilities when trekking through a seldom-hiked region of Iceland, and Tamara Lunger and Simone Moro touch the very limits of human endurance while attempting the first winter crossing of two 8,000m Himalayan peaks – an expedition that changes Tamara’s life.

Join in an exploration of what it means to survive, and to accomplish things greater than ourselves, in this issue of Sidetracked.

144 pages, perfect bound, and printed in full colour on FSC approved uncoated 120gsm paper in the United Kingdom.