Just before lockdown I bought an eMTB. My husband had bought one a month earlier, and was raving about how great it is, and I knew that there's no way I could keep up with him on my trusty old Orbea, so I arranged for some test rides and was hooked immediately. The poor Orbea is hanging up in the garage gathering dust! E-biking is SO MUCH FUN! I live in the Sid Valley in East Devon. All roads lead steeply up, and it's a good day when you have the energy to do more than two cl

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When nature and nurture are put together in the same sentence it's usually as a dichotomy. Is it nature or nurture that causes someone to turn out as they did? Yet this either-or thinking distracts from the fact that nature is nurture. Just being in nature is good for us. As I write this, I'm sitting next to a window, with a bank of grasses outside. Whenever, I get stuck I look out at all the colour variation in the grasses, and how they bend in the wind, and my mind clears,

It was chucking it down with rain all morning, and I had that cooped up feeling, so when it stopped and the sky seemed a little bit brighter I grabbed the opportunity to get out on my bike for a quick spin. Thanks to a broken wrist at the end of last year this is only the third bike ride I've had this year and it felt fantastic to be out. As I rode down the back lane two buzzards circled overhead, crying out to each other. As I rounded a corner I got my first view of the sun

When mountain biking is mentioned in the media, it's normally accompanied by a picture of someone (usually a man) going down a near vertical slope or jumping off an impossible cliff. Rather like the picture above in fact. There will be full face helmets and knee and elbow pads. Everything shrieks danger. But it doesn't have to be like that. Bike Guide Devon is here for people who want to go for a bike ride but would rather not be bothered by cars. If you can ride a bike for a