With the rear end of the bike being so light the F1 is a must on UK courses making easy work of tight switchbacks. |
Several hours' worth of calf-busting switchbacks brought us to the beachside campsite at Huishnish, on the far western extremity of Harris. |
Somehow this is all tied in to the treacherous mountain trails, where a mile as the crow flies can take twenty miles of switchbacks. |
At one point, we zipped through 22 hairpin bends of tightly curled switchbacks and descended more than 10,000 ft. |
A series of terrifying sandy switchbacks zigzag thousands of feet below us, for miles. |
He stops, lets out a throaty chortle, and starts trucking straight uphill, cutting the switchbacks. |