My guy is 26, lives in the Highlands and rides bikes for a living. Go Huw Oliver :-bd Are you in here too Huw? Huws a thoroughly experienced bike tourer so you've backed a potential winner. He did it last year in truly horrible weather so is looking to go round much quicker this year Cheers Phil C ...

Friday 26th not 24th?

Paisley Freight are good for sending bikes. I have used them a lot in the past for other things. £24 for a full bike by the looks of it.
https://www.paisleyfreight.com/

Edited to add - they are nationwide and not just in Scotland...

My guy is 26, lives in the Highlands and rides bikes for a living. Go Huw Oliver

Are you in here too Huw?

I don't know anything about anybody. Can anyone tell me if there are favourites or ex-winners in the list? Cheers.

+1 for Eneloops. I just have the white ones and they are very good.

Hi, are the Northwave outwave grey or blue please?

Second dibs on the Gran canions please

I enjoyed that. It is interesting to see that Tomintoul claims the title of Scotland's highest village, when I have always known this to be Wanlockhead.... https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=highest+village+in+scotland&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB745GB745&oq=highest+village+in+scotland&aqs=chrome....

I just neglect everything else and go riding apart from the boy that is, he just comes with me and that solves that.

Priorities man

htrider wrote:Seems to have been a bit of a run on Borders / southern uplands bothies on here recently. I wonder if its possible to create a route linking them all??

Yes, that has been on my mind too - trying them one at a time first though!

ps - Do you know that you can make a bothy condition report on the MBA's website? It may be that the maintenance officer doesn't know about the broken window and door hinge if they haven't visited for a while.

Yeah, sorry about that - I must try and get that sorted for the next one....

Nice one - thanks for posting that. Planning on doing that one soon so that is helpful.

How old is he?

So glad I waited until I was at the "big" screen before reading this thread. That's superb all round - good effort by the lad, lovely photos and loads of interest. FYI: https://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/englandnorthumberlandkielderkielderkieldercastleforestparkcentrecrossbordertrail I ...

:smile: thanks Those look good. I have my eye on Roughside for sure. Flittingford also had one of those police signs up and the police had also visited the bothy and stamped the book four times in the brief period that it has been open. There wasn't any indication that this was warranted at all (and...

thanks too for the other comments

Dammit - you made me get the maps out again

Bearbonesnorm wrote:You get out and about you do ... looks cracking

Got to make the most of this fantastic weather - might rain for three months straight starting tomorrow

If you ever go that way again the old railway line that heads East after Ricarton Junction is rideable to Kielder, the cutting after crossing the B6357 can be wet and boggy but it's not stopped me before. Just before crossing the road you will come across an old steam train parked on the line at th...

Thanks and thanks too for the inspiration Ray :)

Thanks for the heads-up for this Ray. We visited it this week.
http://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB ... 10&t=10006

After reading on here (thanks Ray Young) that a new bothy had opened near Kielder, I sat down with the maps to try to figure out a route to it from our home-town of Hawick. I was very excited to find that by stringing five off-road paths together we could travel almost all the way to it. The idea of...

Avon Skin-so-soft. Midges hate it and you will have a wonderful complexion after

Gosh, I blinked and missed all these replies :shock: Thanks Adrian, the Koala sounds very good - I will pm you. Cheers I must admit I hadn't thought of going 'saddle roll' style - if the Koala doesn't work out then I will try that. The price of the BigTop ones looks very good, but I am not sure they...