Thanks - well done if you made it to the end of the blog! I should probably have introduced the French Divide. It's a 2100 km ride through France from the Belgium border all the way down to the Pyrenees - all off-road. Way beyond my level of experience but during a moment of midwinter madness I fill...

My journal from the 2017 French Divide. A truly epic experience which I am actually still recovering from.

https://www.donaldmcintosh.net/bike/frenchdivide

Enjoy!

Well done. Sounds like you enjoyed the wildlife and found some good food stops! Always worth making some time for a good meal along the way...

Cheers... I'll need to check out the Lakeland for another year. Yes the bags don't look that big but the packing was compact. Had poles, tent, pegs, fuel bottle, sleeping bag... all the usual stuff. I did have a bag around my waist as well for the camera etc. The weight was certainly a factor, but m...

Cheers for replies, comments and ornithological identification.

And yes I remember the Jones rider. Well done on your finish as well... in a slightly quicker time I suspect! Looking forward to seeing all the 2017 finishers on the site to see how it all ended up.

Read about my catalogue of errors, misjudgements and bad planning on the Cairngorm Loop last weekend. Huge experience, learned a lot... and still one of the best things I've ever done.

https://www.donaldmcintosh.net/bike/cairngormloop