Welcome to Volume 7 of Semantics!
As always it's filled to the brim with bike related chat, amateurly written & printed professionally and limited to 100 copies.
This issue I stay a little closer to home as I take a look at Scotlands famous bike packing adventure route, The Badger Divide.
Whether you are planning to ride the route or have already completed it, I hope this serves as a bit of a mini guide of what to expect, what to look out for and how to be best prepared.
Volume 7 marks a big occasion for Semantics, we have our first ever guest writer!
Matt has been a great friend for a long time and we've been on many bicycling adventures together and attempted the Badger twice (you will find more out about the attempted part) so who better to give you their first hand account of what riding the route is actually like.
I also catch up with Stu who is 'Mr. Badger Divide', we talk about how the route came to be and what he loves about it so much.
Finally we delve into the world of FKTs (Fastest Known Times) and I chat with both Neil & John who have ridden the Badger several times and set records of their own.
All profits from the sale of the zine will be donated to Scotways who work to protect public rights of access to land across Scotland. You can find out more about the work they do here: https://scotways.com
A big thanks to Scrub, Anand and the whole team at Generation Press for helping with the printing side of things. They really are the best and you can see their incredible work over at https://generationpress.co.uk
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Aiming to have these back from the printers and ready to go at the end of Sept!
