Hello.I have made 2 google maps of the route I think they contain all the GPX routes...Feel free to share. Have a great ride everybody. Won't be there mysefl but Béné will be on her green Ogre. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TLhO4AJTH5fXABSRPeyE5jI43Tw https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LdcGa1hSft...

Sorry James, forgot to say great effort by the way!!! I'm going to do a write up in English, but currently struggling with the french version! I took my Uncle John in the end....it wasn't the plan: I planned to take my custom size carbon road bike, only the 25mm tyres I bought whilst stuck in Mali i...

1200km in 90 hours?

That is going some.....(sitting here in smug mode having just done 1200km in 115 and 1/2 hours

Hey Gairy, Missed you on the Chilkoot Safari down on the coast! I'd be interested in seeing the route. We toured down the adige valley from the austrian boorder last summer. Made it to Verona then headed back via. lake Garda. We were supposed to go to Venice, but changed our minds at Verona due to l...

Cracking trip! Good for you 2. We've done the Bassin d'archachon down to Biarritz with our 2, 3 1/2 years ago. I'm glad to know now that we made the right choice stopping where we did! We've toured with our 2 since the first was 1 1/2. We've done 2 trips to Denmark: and they've both been our best tr...

I think I sent you the link via. Strava or something Gairy. ....at least I can't remember being in a pub with you ever...although was in the MBC a few weekends ago....

Price includes the evening meal. Kit is transported for you so not a bikepacking event per. se. So hope I haven't broken some forum rule or offended anyone. Happy to help with any translation if required.

Hi all, I thought some of you might be interested in this: http://chilkoot-cdp.com/project/chilkoot-safari/ . I know Gairy M has signed up. Basically I think it is 2 days of mostly gravel on a set course with certain timed stages and a communal bivvy-out and evening meal in restaurant etc. It's down...

I thought a 10 speed shimano road shifter shifting a chain on a 10 speed shimano mtb casette will work as long as you use a 9 speed shimano mtb rear mech? That's what i came up with after some research before our little alpine jolly for my Uncle John. However if someone tells me this is nonsense, it...

It's just a game. Back in the 70's or early 80's, Ken Wilson (RIP) published an essay (at least I think that's how it started as it ended up into a series of collections of short stories: I can't be bothered to hobble over to the bookshelf on my crutches) called 'The Games Climbers Play'. It looked ...

So….just found out I rode 550km with around 18000m of climbing…with….a fractured femur! Bit shocked to find out. Happened as many of you will know on Day 1 coming out of Turin when I had an altercation with a post on a cycle lane. Got home. Went to the doctors, she wanted me to have a scan and x-ray...

We got into Nice yesterday morning. From Sampeyere village Béné and I rode with Rob, then we met John and Scattamah at the Col de Tende cafe. Sadly leaving the route (due to time constraints), and Scattamah at the main road junction to head up to the col de Turini, we headed up and over a road col t...

Makes me feel justified in spending some money to change my Uncle John gearing from having a lowest of 33:30 to 33:36. Done plenty of road col climbing (live near Grenoble), but admittedly not loaded. It was only when looking at the pictures of the Paris Chill team that I suddenly thought, 'oh, hang...

Ok. No. 11 hex packed!

'Gurning' with a 24:36? Eh? You do mean 24 at the front? .............Have I missed the bit where we were told we're doing a north face alpine mountaineering route?

Weather wise: Well near Grenoble it's been unbearably hot for the last week. High 30's near us at 600m altitude, i.e. as hot as it gets for us. Hot weather like this is normally followed by stormy periods..... however I have been told this week it will be stormy and then getting good again. So it co...

Cheers, I had a play with that earlier and couldn't get it to upload a gpx file....it seems I did something to it as bikehike now works nicely... Shame I've just gone through each gpx file and put them back into gpsvisualiser to get a profile! We live and learn! No idea why basecamp is not playing b...

Hello all, Béné and I are massively looking forward to this. Thanks James! Think the bikes are almost sorted.... Train to Turin booked (we live near Grenoble if we can be of any help to anyone), hostel booked etc. Can anyone see elevation graphs of the gpx files in Basecamp? I'm just getting ' The c...