IS THIS THE UK’S BEST GRAVEL? DIRTY REIVER 2024

Probably one of the best gravel events in the UK. The Dirty Reiver is now in its 9th year as the UK’s biggest gravel event. Based in and around Kielder Forest in the English/Scottish Borders the event makes use of the extensive gravel trail network across the area. With hundreds of km of tracks to choose from riders always have new vistas to explore.

Many riders return year on year to ride this unique area around the borders, the gravel is second to non and the three distances ensure that everyone is included.

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hey we’re not going to find anyone the best to do is to stand here and watch people come through and then shout cuz no one’s got phone signal yeah I sent Nick my location and realized that there was pointless doing that welcome to you’ll probably receive it when he gets up on the hill finally gets some when you get the radio tower that’s where your signal starts pinging and everything just starts pinging through ding ding ding ding ding so we’re at the start of dirty Reaver technically I don’t think we’re going to actually start cuz I think we’re going to Loop Round not not ceremonially uh definitely not doing the 200 basically how does it work though there’s a cut off where you it’s like loops and you can you so you’ve got the the 200 is a big one then the 165 there’s a the 130 there’s a turn off and you could do the extra 70k he want and then the 65 is the same thing the starts the same on all of them I got it I’ve also just realized that they just replaced stram just replaced my brakes yesterday and I forgot to bed them in last night so that should be fun that’ be right it’s downhill here yeah [Music] perfect great time we were going to not go through the start and then we thought we should probably go through the start so it’s a start otherwise you never start voger problems oh I keep touching you like this you’re right mate hello are you cold yeah it’s chilly very chilly soing cold it’s freezing I’ve got a h handsome long sleeve on yeah a long sleeve jersey a jilie an insulated jacket on and there yeah it’s uh it’s not warm but it’s dry it is sh positive thinking yeah I up yesterday why are you complaining about the cold you’re in car no I C the train up from Preston to car same cold and Preston oh Preston train station is one of the coldest places on Earth yeah I just need to warm up full guns there you keep doing that for 200 km and you’ll be warm I I taking it so relaxed it’s great good have a nice time enjoy it that’s what I’m doing yeah good well such a nice day it’s beautiful how good is this view yeah yeah it’s quite nice quite nice indeed Kon wheeler woohoo hey a dragon there is there in the sky yeah what’s the what’s the deal with this climb hi Dad oh I’ll find you the deal with this climb you can win a trip to flers if you have come if you come close to the time that Yan miss the line of flers did you win a trip to flers stay at his house you win the T GI the person a full kit of the call what was your time we we’re not telling anyone yet see tonight yeah was it fast did it feel fast it was faster than D that I know [Music] a [Music] right [Music] Dad how you doing son you’re right I’m okay I told you I cat you like I didn’t you for a second Dre what you got in your pocket always riding this this still oh my God Las are [Music] humans so the original plan St was to probably do the 130 but I convinced you Nick has convinced me to do the 65 because we’re we’re here for the social so and I’m fine with that because technically this is my Sith ride since having a tow job that’s what we call it a tow job so yeah like there’s no real pressure it’s just enjoying it and the the skies are beautiful it’s warmed up a bit good company good good gravel come back next year and do the 200 again that’s the plan I think but yeah perfect so far [Music] [Music] cable tie Cutters I didn’t buy them I got to send them got to sent some cable tie Cutters we filmed them cut yeah day do they cut cable TS that’s that’s how neat they cut them that’s the thing anybody need this [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] [Music] so they do three different routes they do a 65 a 130 and a 200 the 200 is kind of the one that’s most famous yeah I would say the 200 is the most famous One 130 is like a good stepping stone to people that want to do the 200 and the 65 is like a good intro because we’re all new gravel cyclists here great social we’re here for the Social and we’re doing the 65 Nick’s here on the I mean he hasn’t shut up again put Durell in we got 20K to go on our 200 km ride uh I’ll tell you 30k 30k to gok we’re 130k in on our repic um good news because I only have 70k left I’m a G so so I’ll be fine yeah [Music] so we’re on the last 20 okay now quite lovely actually just a have a Social and chill no pressure got a really nice crew of people and yeah nearly done which is actually what I wanted I wanted to not be finishing this feeling so nice to get riding again first thing really event I guess post operation but there was no pressure from lle to do anything really at all actually just to come out and hang out so yeah it’s all good Nick’s a bad influence he hasn’t shut up keep going mate you’re looking good ol we’ll trip them up Tri up come on Plum boy you can do it wa that single track Wasing rough yeah go well thank you thank you you’re fine still from Baza my fingers don’t we’ll give you a head start and we’ll catch you again mate yeah we’ll see you later onast I keep the showers you go go go pet just keep coming out and we’re talking about another gravel event at a gravel event yeah our calendar it sort of shows who we are it’s a highlight of the Year Stone circles don’t miss that one that is going to be Stone circles hot chilies as we sit here event sit here at the feed Zone and we talk about the next gravel Zone and ironically the food at the feed zone of the Nextel we’re not about the riding we we’re talking about they got the best pizza this is the most chilled I’ve ever done an event I think you gr Juro was pretty chill but this is another level look at us we’re all relaxed you’ve got Ollie bombing in here Jess a looking tired we can get back to the castle we’ll be showered a party yeah exactly it’s a hill lovely little stop now we’re on a hill green is grip green is grip [Music] I think it’s the last Hill of our 200 km epic got to chew the bars Garmin saying climb five or five so we’ll see that can’t be right cuz there’s a climb to finish it’s a lie maybe it doesn’t count as a clb it probably doesn’t and I know that that’s that doesn’t change I as many as you like as many as they can make 5050 I reckon if you can eat 15 pizzas a t with a piz so even my f is a problem not the capability to eat them so Pizza Hut you know like where’s sponsored Rider they sponsor Evan and Paul so why don’t they sponsor us I bet you can eat more than him picked up during the pandemic almost picked up at Greg spons so say that again you’re going to want to get that in the pandemic you nearly picked up a great spot IED the go so amazing From Grace is in and he told me they want to do this whole thing of like like getting cyclist like living on Gregs kind of thing 10 years old peny and who wants that sponsorship what you want is 10 years with Gregs you know what I mean like that that’s a real sponsorship that is a real I mean that literally feeds you that’s like that’s retirement yeah exactly wouldn’t have to work ever again so in case you haven’t gathered from all the chat Nick and I are doing bad LS as a pair this year so that’s not till September so this is our first training Ride 65 km done it really well that’s that’s more than what we’re going to be doing each day at Badlands so I [Music] n