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Great Britain Mountain Biking – Tom Fenton & Andy McCandlish – Vertebrate Publishing
Over the years, Vertebrate Publishing have produced a series of area guides to Britains diverse mountain biking landscape. Detailed and authoritative, they’re arguably the best mountain bike guidebooks in the country. This mighty tome however is an attempt to encapsulate all that the UK has to offer, the best of the epics, quick blasts and […]
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West Yorkshire Mountain Biking by Benjamin Haworth, Vertebrate Publishing 2012
To many people, the title of this guide must seem like an oxymoron but then for most people West Yorkshire means the conurbations of Leeds, Bradford and Halifax. However, as Benjamin Haworth ably demonstrates in the latest Vertebrate Publishing guide, in more ways than one you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. For while […]
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Peak district bouldering – Vertebrate Publishing
You know the old adage about not judging a book by its cover? Well, just for once, ignore it. Vertebrate Publishing’s latest book, Peak District Bouldering, has on its cover a striking shot by Dave Parry of Dave Norton on Low Rider at Stanage. It’s a truly original picture, arresting and dynamic and sets the […]
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South west mountain biking by Nick Cotton & Tom Fenton – Vertebrate Publishing
I must, at the outset, declare an interest in this book as my ugly mug features heavily in the photographic content. But, hell, don’t let that put you off because this is yet another excellent mountain bike guide from Vertebrate Publishing. Covering Exmoor, Dartmoor and the Quantocks, there’s enough riding in here to keep the visiting […]
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Smile please…..
Never, ever trust a photographer when they shove a camera in your face. Next thing you know, the fish eye lens has done its dirty work and you look like you’ve had your head run over by a bus. Thank you Mr Coefield, I’m ready for my close-up now…..
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Just one more time please John……
I’ve just had a brilliant couple of days away in the South West acting as mountain biking model for photographer John Coefield. Stop laughing at the back there! John is a big wheel at Sheffield’s Vertebrate Publishing who produce arguably the country’s best outdoor pursuit guidebooks. He was desperate to get pictures for the latest […]
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Mountain Biking Trail Centres – The Guide
I don’t know whether to be jealous of Tom Fenton or sympathetic. Any man who racks up 1500km of riding in one month and in a very short time rides every trail centre in the country surely deserves to be the object of one of those emotions. The resulting guide is a comprehensive compendium of […]
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Come on keyboard, do your stuff……
In its punishing honesty this book is courageous, exactly what you’d expect from a down-to-earth, working class Yorkshireman, a man such as Ron Fawcett. More than anything it is an evocation of a period of flux, when climbing changed irrevocably as talented climbers found they had a chance to make a living from the sport, […]
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Jerry Moffatt – Revelations
Climbing literature is a bizarre genre. The general public crave details of the latest D-list celebrity snow plod to the summit of yet another desecrated, litter strewn Himalayan peak. Alternatively they want to hear about a near death experience or a litany of death and misery associated with the Eiger or K2. Frankly, much climbing […]