Any BB200/300 pictures?

Jurassic pusher · Post by **Jurassic pusher** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:09 am

My camera doesn`t work underwater so I didn`t take it out of the 3 bags it was in!

techno · Post by **techno** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 10:46 am

Just the one, this is at the nant y lynn(?) Stream crossing where you and whitestone kindly helped me over. Took it while waiting for the guy with the Lefty shod surly. Who managed fine without my help. Well done that man.

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larsmars · Post by **larsmars** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:17 pm

We found a log crossing 50m upstream of the underwater gate. That’s Tom and Javi shimmying across.

CTodhunter · Post by **CTodhunter** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:46 pm

Some poor soul disappearing into the bog. Its was still an ITT at this point so no one stepped forward to help (too busy laughing). Kept his bike clean though.

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Dave Barter · Post by **Dave Barter** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:52 pm

Lol Chickenlegs will tell you I did that exact same thing there.

larsmars · Post by **larsmars** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 12:58 pm

Dave Barter wrote:Lol Chickenlegs will tell you I did that exact same thing there.

Me too! Deceptively deep. I actually lost one of my shoes later on in the dark and took a minute or so to find it in the muck!

lune ranger · Post by **lune ranger** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:08 pm

Plus 1...
Though it was my bike that went in...like a submarine with only half the back wheel sticking out

Scattamah · Post by **Scattamah** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:16 pm

Pro tip - just on the edge of that big rock, there was some firm ground to step on.

Greetz

S.

whitestone · Post by **whitestone** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 1:19 pm

Scattamah wrote:Pro tip - just on the edge of that big rock, there was some firm ground to step on.

Having been through there once before I happened to know about that bit of bog and the avoidance measures

Rumps · Post by **Rumps** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:10 pm

that "poor soul" was me.....managed to keep my bike totally clean the whole way round.............

Richard G · Post by **Richard G** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:37 pm

Good stuff. Hopefully the guys from the Star will post their stuff when they get a chance. Had an excellent vid of a river crossing.

In Reverse · Post by **In Reverse** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:44 pm

Couple of vids, first one of the windy climb 10km in. And when I say "climb", I mean "push", obvs:
(contains an attempt at an expletive btw)

https://streamable.com/vskcn

Second one of the uncrossable ford at 21km:

https://streamable.com/pgz02

I had a go at crossing, got up to navel level and it was still getting deeper before I'd even got to the fast-flowing bit.

This pic of the first climb goes some way to showing what trail conditions were like for the first four or five hours - pretty much everything was a running stream:

and anything that was normally a running stream looked more like this (Pete Gretton, Tom Stockton and Colin Todhunter just after Nant y Moch, 40km-ish)

First sign that the skies were starting to clear, about 3pm, on the 4km climb about 50km in:

A bit of ridiculous gate-closing engineering (as Andy Wright pointed out, it doesn't work), at the bottom of the Cerig Cochoin descent.

CTodhunter · Post by **CTodhunter** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:35 pm

Glad I was wearing that dry suit

techno · Post by **techno** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:40 pm

In Reverse wrote: and anything that was normally a running stream looked more like this (Pete Gretton, Tom Stockton and Colin Todhunter just after Nant y Moch, 40km-ish)

Guy in the middles face!

Chicken Legs · Post by **Chicken Legs** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:44 pm

Dave Barter wrote:Lol Chickenlegs will tell you I did that exact same thing there.

I can vouch for Dave sinking in that bog and he went in a long way, I only chuckled a little bit as he looked a bit p***ed off,
not many minutes later he went to extreme lengths to get cleaned up by throwing himself in a raging torrent, I didn't chuckle at all
at that one

fatbikephil · Post by **fatbikephil** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:05 pm

larsmars wrote:We found a log crossing 50m upstream of the underwater gate. That’s Tom and Javi shimmying across.

That must be the hairiest photo I've seen!

slarge · Post by **slarge** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:27 pm

Javier is hairy all right!

larsmars · Post by **larsmars** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:30 pm

slarge wrote:Javier is hairy all right!

In Reverse · Post by **In Reverse** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:23 pm

Second try at posting the video of the ford...

https://streamable.com/zked4

Richard G · Post by **Richard G** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:27 pm

Yup. Great vid. lol

fatbikephil · Post by **fatbikephil** » Mon Oct 15, 2018 9:55 pm

larsmars wrote:
slarge wrote:Javier is hairy all right!

Javi · Post by **Javi** » Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:53 pm

Here attempting to sort the problem with my tyre filling it with leaflets in a toilet block at 100km from start. Nothing as exciting as the other pics but it made me laugh!

Leaflets in tyre BB300 by sarpullido, on Flickr

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