"Seemed a bit elaborate for an advert for a beer"

And Vupine clothing, clearly i don't fit their demographic

Excellent report and some top helmet hair on the paddling photo.

Or was it down to the fact that Dave's English....... I am pretty sure racism came into it. She was talking to me in english then making asides to her kids in Welsh. I can tell you for sure if you can translate " Watch me make this sweaty pillock cry a lot as I send him on his way " into ...

Both

My Welsh Ride Thing Article in the CTC mag

Cheers Ian, I'm a bit of a nancy where RoW's are concerned and maybe a little too cautious, mainly due to ending up in long dead ends in the past. Hence I bailed off the route after noting some other sections that did not have OS grade RoW status. Actually made for a great, but weird, C2C. Day 1 cla...

Yep

Yep, the landowner was adamant that I was going no further. I showed her the map and the main road diversion it would entail, she did not care and got quite "heated" that her family owned the mountain and no cyclists were going to set wheel upon it. To be fair there is a great big sign pri...

Composite, where did this route come from http://www.composite-projects.co.uk/route/wildcat-wc2c/ ? I had to abandon it at Blaenau Dolwyddelan as a farmer turned me back from going down a private track on his land, he appears to be right. Looking back through the route I realised that it is cheeky a...

Thanks all, ended up in Conwy mountain area, rode up there in the dark and had a fantastic bivi overlooking the sea with only wold horses for company. The beach areas were far too busy and it mean that the next day started mostly downhill. Sadly there is another very dodgy video to follow soon.

Anyone know the Llandudno area well and can recommend a decent place no more than a hour out of town south'ish for a bivy?

I've never ridden there before and wondered whether it would be feasible to do a night on the beach next to Conwy Sands

Mum's operation went to plan. All cancer out but sadly she's stuck with a colostomy, small price to pay. My plans have changed a bit, the drive to Blair Atholl would be a struggle in a tight timescale, so I've got a train ticket to Llandudno instead, a vague idea of a route and am off tomorrow. I sp...

I'm 50/50 at the moment Alasdair as my Mum is under the knife today and I may ahve to do a lot of parental caring. Can't do the weekend after due to a stupid bloody wedding that I have to attend.

Ian, yours sounds good dave@phased.co.uk

Thanks
Dave

Has anyone got a GPX of the Welsh C2C route completed by Dave Buchannon here http://www.davebuchanan.co.uk/gallery/wc2c-maps/ and mentioned at http://www.selfsupporteduk.net/?

I'm being dead lazy as transcribing the maps will take me forever.

Great read, I'm looking forward to having a go at this in the very near future

Thanks all I maybe going to the Cairngorms this weekend if the planets/work/Mum's operation align so expect another sweary video soon.

Very nice, your weather day was almost exactly as I had riding a similar loop up there.

OK so you've seen the film now read the novel. I typed up my HT560 experience over a couple of train journeys so it is quite long I'm afraid. Hopefully you'll find it reasonably interesting and empathise with some of the mistakes/incompetence/feelings/highs/lows and general ace-ness of bikepacking c...

If you want to go full on geek then gpsbabel is the Swiss Army knife of GPX manipulation

http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-develop ... Usage.html

I assume air resistance is negated for that, as that increases as a square law, whereas that appears to have friction, but only from a static point of view...(I think)

Can't see rubbing disk brakes in the equation either? Or the "mince" factor.

Welsh one in the diary

You should do it again with chamois cream and sudo cream as you clearly have the abilty to do the whole route I'm going to. But let's be clear as I say in the video the arse was a secondary excuse (also I was creamed to the hilt, it was the shorts that caused the problem). I need to get my head rou...

Me too

slarge wrote:Please tell me that's the Chameleons..... One of my favourite bands from the 80's that I haven't listened to for 25 years. Where's my record player?
Great video!

Yep, it is "Swamp Thing" from the Strange Times album. Also Cake, Operation Ivy and Stereolab