Team Geared Up

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or enter your email: for updates. Thanks for visiting!  ÖREBRO, SWEDEN  (Team Geared Up) - The future has arrived! Forget waiting in traffic in the mornings, jet-packs have become a reality once again. (Altho they have [...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) This is for Robin to show I made an effort with the geek stuff gadget/ technology items while he’s away ;-) I spotted it being promoted in one of the free newspapers yesterday and just wondered if anyone ever uses these “personal transportation devices[...] Read More »

  ÖREBRO, SWEDEN  (Team Geared Up) - I just came back from my season in Whistler, British Columbia in Canada and thought i’d share some of the tips and tricks I learn’t during my season! So it is about time I got around to writing one of these posts. Procrastination is a terrible, t[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Seriously I will shut the hell up about the weather soon. I know we’re all sick of it and depressed at the current forecast (and reaching for the prozac) but someone who I’d say could seriously benefit from a few rays is Sam Crowley. According to Bear180[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Remember TGU featured in last weekend’s Sunday Times article about adventure? Well with kind permission from the Sunday Times we can reporoduce the article for all those that didn’t run out and purchase a copy! Because it’s quite a long piece of tex[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I was blogging previously about a race that some of our ultra running group have signed up for next year called the Gobi March. Well this years 6 day event is now over and the winner has been named as Mark Tamminga, with Stephen Hilton and Lucy Brooks as joint second[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Organiser of the Outsider Annacurra Challenge Peter O’Farrell and team mate Don Travers blasted through Saturday’s Kilbroney Challenge Adventure Race in Rostrevor Co. Down in about 4 hours. Don is a former member of the Irish Mountain Biking squad and des[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) I needn’t have worried too much. The weather wasn’t too bad according to the winners of Saturdays Rogaine 2007, Andrew Mc Carthy and Irish AR Team member Moire O’ Sullivan. According to Moire: We had some big showers and mist on Saturday afternoon a[...] Read More »

MELBOURNE, VIC, AUSTRALIA (Team Geared Up) - UKclimbing.com have a great introduction write-up on the basics of deep water soloing including some route recommendations, and all the gear required (shoes, and lots of chalkbags basically :), some demo photos and links to video examples. Image Cred[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Incredible footage on the news this evening of scenes at the Salthill (Co. Galway) Airshow. From RTE: 3 people have been taken to hospital following an incident at the annual Galway Air Show during which the door of an RAF helicopter fell off. The incident happened a[...] Read More »

IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Geared Up Reader and journalist Richard Oakley asks many questions in todays Sunday Times that you adventure readers will find interesting. He looks into the growing number of people who are attempting challenges that, a few years previous, most were just happy to survive. H[...] Read More »

MELBOURNE, VIC, AUSTRALIA (Team Geared Up) - O.k., so not as serious as some of the other reviews, but I may as well report on this :) I’ll start with a brief review of this contraption. Looking like a dog’s toy, this is Black Diamond’s Forearm Trainer. I purchased after a moment[...] Read More »

MELBOURNE, VIC, AUSTRALIA (Team Geared Up) - I wrote up a review of my FiveTen Galileo’s back in early February that might be of interest to people. In short, I purchased them as a replacement for FiveTen Anasazi’s Velcros, as they’d been designed by the European arm of FiveTen w[...] Read More »

MELBOURNE, VIC, AUSTRALIA (Team Geared Up) - Well, finally back with an update of my own. The Weather Gods played fair for our final day at the crag last Tuesday, leaving us to a clear but really windy day. We could live with that! Anyway, after all the preparation, it wasn’t meant to be. Firs[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Oh the sodding rain is driving me nuts! (Excuse the language Mrs. B) Now don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore running in the rain. It’s one of life’s pleasures to just skip through the puddles on the pavements and not give a damn cos it’s so[...] Read More »

DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) Congrats to Outsider on the birth of their new arrival who they have named Freewheel! It’s aimed at anybody on 2 wheels, road or trail, something for everybody. I got my hands on a copy of Freewheel yesterday and was very impressed! Great photos, glossy feature[...] Read More »