Monthly Archives: October 2024

My quest to build Ultimate Turfing Bicycle No. 1, the Ribble CGR SL, is nearing completion. Or rather it was, until I came across something else that might be useful for turfing. In this instance, it’s the Alpkit Stingray custom … Continue reading →

In my Turf Blog of 19-10-24, I set out to find the source of the fabled Brunstane Burn from the Firth of Forth at Portobello promenade all the way to the misty Pentland Hills, temporarily halting my quest at the … Continue reading →

Today is new bike day. Yes, today sees the arrival of Ultimate Turfing Bicycle No. 2, the Sonder Broken Road. Regular visitors to Planet Gary may have followed my quest to create the Ultimate Turfing Bicycle No. 1, and the … Continue reading →

Brave adventurers might cross entire continents to discover the source of a river such as the Nile or Amazon, usually funded by some really posh knob, geographical society or the like, hire hundreds of native porters to carry their Earl … Continue reading →

The past few days have been spent mostly hunting down turfer unique zones and picking off a few unique zones locally that have been created since I first turfed those areas. Holyrood Park in Edinburgh was one such area with … Continue reading →

Some turfers might think it’s totally crazy to drive for an hour, then slither 580m down a muddy precipitous path with a sheer drop on one side, in winds gusting to 40 mph and with horizontal rain and sea spray … Continue reading →

With the Turf Ultimate Region Fight 2024 finished for another year – Team Scotland came in a respectable 4th place out of 12 competing teams – the pressure is now off. Now we can all get back to normal turfing. … Continue reading →

Another busy turf day, this time into the big city, the west side of Edinburgh to be exact. It was the final area of the city where I still had a bunch of uniques to claim, around 90 of them … Continue reading →

Well, that was a tough session. Only 29 zones taken in just over 3-hours but that’s what you get when you visit the Scottish Borders. They make you work for your zones in part of the Scottish Borders and I … Continue reading →