Angus Young | Eastern Divide Trail: Fastest Known Time

Angus Young has ridden his MASON Macro to a Fastest Known Time on the Eastern Divide Trail

MASON Cycles racer Angus Young has completed a legendary 5,950 mile (9,575km) route from Cape Spear, Newfoundland to Key West, Florida in 39 days, 10 hours, 22 minutes. This is around 2 days faster than Logan Kasper’s existing record.

Angus is a veteran of numerous ultra races and epic challenges, like the European Divide, Highland Trail 550 and the Dales Divide (for all of which he holds the FKT). Angus’s trademark is his mix of sheer grit and determination combined with a cheerful disposition and tendency to keep smiling throughout any challenge.

For 2025, Angus decided to take on his biggest feat yet – the Eastern Divide Trail: the world’s longest off-road bikepacking route.

On 31 July, he left Cape Spear in Canada riding a MASON Macro set up in drop-bar configuration with an unusual choice of a ‘leaf spring’ fork – and loaded up with Restrap equipment.

After cycling the length of the island of Newfoundland, a ferry crossing brought Angus to the North American mainland, where he worked his way across three Canadian provinces before crossing into the United States. From here, his journey continued south through 10 US states, from New England to the Appalachian Mountains and into the USA’s warm humid South.

Along the way, Angus has certainly encountered challenges. The weather swung through extremes of heat and precipitation. Food and supplies were sometimes hard to find. Angus’s secondhand leaf spring fork didn’t survive the distance and he ended up buying a conventional suspension fork from a bike shop customer. 

After making it along the length of the Appalachians, Angus’s welcome to the South was characterised by what he described as ‘death mud’ – a brutally adhesive substance that stopped his wheels rotating and threatened to rob him of hours of progress.

Further along the trail, extensive swamps further hampered Angus's progress. Knee deep in water, Angus half-pushed, half-carried his bike through swampland, debating with himself how best to conserve energy while keeping his kit dry.

Amid these conditions, transmission problems started to crop up, but Angus used his ingenuity to fashion repairs, even miles from the nearest bike shop.

On 8 September 2025, Angus reached Key West, where he somehow found the strength to lift his bike above his head in celebration of his achievement.

Angus has been posting extensively to Instagram during his EDT ride. He is expected to combine this footage with further material that will tell the full story of his successful Eastern Divide Trail FKT ride. More details will be shared soon.

Also, check out this piece from Bikepacking.com, exploring Angus's thoughts on his amazing acheivement.

Angus’s bike: The MASON Macro

The MASON Macro was designed by Dom Mason, then handbuilt in Italy from Dedacciai aluminium. It's optimised for light weight, endurance comfort and maximum configurability. Cables and hoses are carefully positioned to allow attachment of the bags and equipment that are vital for ultra long-distance rides.

Dom says:

Angus and his bike have really been through an ordeal this last 39 days. And he is a rider whose pace and energy make him notoriously hard on his equipment. But, despite the issues he faced with his fork and his transmission, I’ll confess to feeling quite proud that his Macro frame kept him going over the mountains and through the mud. Thank you Angus for having MASON along for the ride!

You've done well, Angus. Eat well. Sleep deeply. You deserve a break!