November beach bivi.

[JohnClimber]

What a fantastic trip to and around Newborough Forest on Anglesey

Ok you want some details?

5 riders, Jeff, John, John, Tim and Mark arrived at the designated start point at just after 12pm on Saturday 15th November.

We had clear sky's, warm weather and a perfect forecast for the next 24 hours.

So, once loaded up with all that we needed off we went into the sun for a 24 hour beach bivi ride.

I'll let the pictures do the talking, here are my 7 favourite shots with a few words under each


1st group shot


Looking for the perfect bivi spot


Found it, followed by the best nights sleep I've ever had under canvas


Sunrise over Snowdon


Sunrise view from the "perfect" bivi spot


Perfect conditions


Morning ride to the butty van

The full set of my photos are here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@ ... 992755873/

Ride stats
Saturday - 21.3 miles
Saturday night ride beach ride - 6 miles
Sunday - 21 miles

[Bearbonesnorm]

Looks cracking that John.

[Charliecres]

That looks like a fabulous trip. Good work

[freakychurchill]

And here is a video of the vaguely exciting couple of days


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuf-d3Ydjg

[Wotsits]

Good vid & great pics as always John, looks like a great trip

[JohnClimber]

This has to be one of my best bike rides of the year, it was defiantly my best bivi ride and it wouldn't have been possible on a normal mountain bike.

You need a Fat Bike for Christmas

[summittoppler]

A few pics from me and a 12 minute video to come soon :)

[barney]

And here is a video of the vaguely exciting couple of days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuf-d3Ydjg

what an amazing 2 days, think I might as well sell all my bivi kit because that will never be bettered !

currently in work with no YouTube access... can't wait to get home and watch it

thanks to Jeff for arranging the summer-like weather, perfect bivi spot, endless supply of firewood, spectacular views, fireworks, bacon butty van, para-glider flypast, micro-light flypast, sea-kayakers, wild horse stampede, access to fresh water & toilets...

[Ian]

Well that just looks rubbish, and I'm not at all gutted that I didn't make it




(in the domestic department, my lad is still pretty ill, so it was a good decision not to make the journey. As a conciliation I got out for a good ride ride on Sunday with yetiman - there was lots of bogs and fog, so a world apart from Newborough)

[Mike]

Cant wait for next yrs trip, this one looked good and you guys had such better weather than us.

[freakychurchill]

Timelapse of the sunrise as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZqxelwGL8

[Mike]

That was nice, did you use a go pro or a slr?

[RayKickButts]

4 loads of washing manky bike clobber, 2 hours fettling and cleaning the bike i still keep finding sand! great weekend bivi my best group one of the year without a doubt, just a shame we ran out of hip flask entertainment

Have to say my legs are in bits after 4 days of fun but i blame Snowdon for that and the crap weather it chucked at me and bending my tent poles!

Have to say some bloody great photo's from the trip, i'm the hairy handsome barsteward in Orange

[freakychurchill]

That was nice, did you use a go pro or a slr?

I just used my Sony hdr sports cam on a 5 sec timer. Glad u like

[summittoppler]

HERE'S MY VIDEO


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94kHfQAF ... SKht099rPQ

[JohnClimber]

Cracking video Jeff

All of my good photos of the weekend in a 3 minute video

For the best view make it full screen

http://youtu.be/GYzpKpCYg2s

[Farawayvisions]

Love the shot with the silvery yellow light on the water. Stunning. Enjoyed the video too. Fat bike envy.

[big john]

Love the pictures and videos I saw that one had the on one bike. I really liked that bike but heard it had loads of problems have you had any?

[big john]

And here is a video of the vaguely exciting couple of days


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuf-d3Ydjg

Where about is all that water is it seawater I would not like to bike through that but great vid

[freakychurchill]

And here is a video of the vaguely exciting couple of days


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuf-d3Ydjg

Where about is all that water is it seawater I would not like to bike through that but great vid

No problems with my On-one apart from a broken chain so far and no was not sea water but bit go through some waves and is fine as long as u wash your bike :)