Nice write up in the Guardian on Saturday by Dixe Wills and Rachel Dixon about our Costwolds Introductory road cycling weekend.
Here’s what they said
Get into road cycling, Cotswolds
Do you feel like the only one who doesn’t spend your weekends in Lycra? Getting into road cycling will change your life for the better: you’ll be fitter, thinner, better versed in Britain’s backroads, and able to join in those (at first, seemingly tedious) conversations about cadence and cleats. Saddle Skedaddle (0191-265110, skedaddle.co.uk) specialises in all holidays bike, and has a great line in beginners’ road biking weekends throughout the UK. The Cotswolds is as good a place to start as any – pretty scenery and villages will take your mind off the thigh burn, and as this is not quite geared towards the super-serious Mamil (Middle-Aged Man in Lycra), you get to stop for the odd pint.
• £255pp for three days (two nights’ B&B accommodation), hire of a lightweight road bike £55pp (skedaddle.co.uk)


This superb desert biking adventure focuses on the deep south of Morocco, a land of big skies and stark mountain ranges where mud-brick kasbahs appear to rise up out of the desert, sitting in tranquil palm oases and framed by dramatic backdrops of snowcapped mountains. We ride along Morocco’s dirt roads, taking us from Marrakech to the Tichka Pass, the highest in the High Atlas, and then southward, descending along the Draa Valley to the fringes of the Sahara Desert.
