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

1. Plug Gamin into MAC Via USB cable, open GARMIN driven then drop GPX files into the GPX folder. You can access them using Track Manager on the Dakota and display them by selecting "Show on Map" 2. No 3. No, your tracklog will be added to the GPC\Current\Current.gpx file until you do a re...

Top vid. Love the swearing at the route makers. Music was spot on too. Shame you didn't finish, stupid sore arse. I hope you're doing the BB200, lots of opportunity to swear at the route maker there. Yes, I'm in. The end of the vid is quite raw and I've sat down and had a long chat with myself. I t...

"The most apalling camera work ever. "

Is that a category in the annual awards? I'll forgive the spelling and say a big "thanks" for your blog which formed a major part of my planning.

"Out of curiosity, what camera did you use to film this?"

Canon S100 compact, first time I've used it for video.

Yes, will fix the black tomorrow

I had a go at the route in June, did I make it? I'll spare you the suspense. No. But I kept a video blog for the days I rode and have stitched it together into this video. It is quite long I'm afraid and contains a LOT of swearing. Also, forgive the small section of misaligned voice I'll fix this so...

And another offer .. I've got a Nikon D50 with 18-55m and 200mm zoom lenses

I developed a technique for when I took my bike to the top of the UK 3 highest peaks. I took the wheels off and strapped the bike frame to my pack. I then used the wheels as "walking poles". This worked a treat for long extended hikes but is clearly a pain for short sections. I found wheel...

I'm just back from doing half of the route in 3 days. Had to bale out with major arse issues after a complete battering. I think the decision is sound as you cannot know how big an ask the distance and terrain is within the time period. Write up to follow soon

Well done Andy, keep firing away. I enjoyed talking to you about this at WRT and it's great to see you in action

fair chuffed to me means having a poker shoved in and out. I'm not 100% sure I'd like to be fair chuffed about anything?