Training to ride across the a country can seem like a daunting prospect. With the right preparation and cycling training, the excitement and sense of achievement that long cycling trips can provide are yours for the taking. Whilst cycling is as simp ...
A gentle start and a good job it was too! The first part of my big day riding the King Alfred Way route took me from Reading down to Farnham. This part of the route featured a decent number of road sections on quiet country lanes as we left the urba ...
2,101 km moved on day 1 of Move4MS 2025. The 375 members of Bike the UK for MS’s Strava club are aiming to move 150,000 km in January - One KM for each person living with MS in the UK. It’s not too late for you to join the movement and fill the first ...
Part two of Felix's Consistency Tips when training for a multi-day cycling trip. Read Part 1 here! Don't Take it on Alone This also features in my winter cycling tips but linking up with someone else to improve your commitment to training is a huge h ...
Here is the latest installment of Felix’s training tips series – this time covering the importance of training little and often to help get you ready for summer cycling adventures like a Bike the UK for MS trip. Whether you are used to riding and are ...
Here is part 2 of Felix's Guide to Winter Cycling! Including the final 4 tips to complete the list. check out part 1 first if you haven't seen it yet! Tip 4 - Mudguards As you will be able to tell by looking at any of my bikes, I am often g ...
Packing for a supported bike tour like our 2025 trips requires some planning – not least for what riding kit to bring. Here are some of my best tips for packing your cycling gear ahead of taking on a trip like Land’s End to John O’ Groats or Lon Las ...
Getting out on the bike during the winter months can be more challenging because of any one of what I sometimes call the “four factors” (where Factor Four conditions are when all are present and even I think riding outside would be madness…!): rain, ...
Gravel riding has become increasingly popular across the cycling world and I must admit that personally, I hadn’t quite got what all the fuss was about. Things changed after testing out both the Coast to Coast route as well as our new King Alfred’s W ...
We moved three times around the Earth in January for those living with MS Bike the UK for MS’s January #move4ms challenge was to move 1 kilometre for each of the 130,000 people living with multiple sclerosis in the UK. After 31 days ...
UK Programme Manager, Felix Young, shares a report from his visits to two of the MS Society support groups that our riders' fundraising goes towards. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to meet two of the MS Society support groups close to wh ...
All you need to know about volunteering as a Route Leader with Bike the UK for MS
Bowser in Mario, the Elite Four in Pokemon and all other video game big bosses elicit the same thrill, excitement, frustration and dread in gamers. They push your skill, persistence, ingenuity and willpower to levels that the rest of the game does n ...
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no suc ...
June 2024 will mark 10 years since the first Bike the UK for MS trip as 12 riders took on John O’ Groats to Land’s End. We wanted to take this chance to cast back to memories of the trips that have brought the charity to where it is today and to cel ...
Bike the UK for MS was the official charity partner of Round 1 of the Western Cyclocross League on Sunday 24th September in Frome with organizer Avid Sport donating £1 per rider entry to Bike the UK for MS. With 172 riders taking the start line a ...
