Very cheery Friday here, actually going bikepacking for a few days, in what promises to be superb weather, from tomorrow evening

I've got Alpkit ones.

definitely not ridden 3000 miles in them!!

But so far so good

July BaM with Reg, in Criccieth, on the Slate tour. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczPE5hK0x7wxhC3bf4B7Ab1MqVD1G7nbT_wsbsRSo9npA3BFEHTiGo33wtZBqNRvdoHWXioNI_EdpBemfe7H1ffRN3YTithOI5m7NqCIqA3PkkgH1fUc=w640-h480 7 of 7 for 2024. Now I think about it, it also fits in with my wild-flower link...

That's an amazing shot of that seagull John, or is it a tern??

Great write up, enjoyed that, and looks like you had some luck with some sunny weather at least some of the time!! Ah, Y Felinheli, I have fond memories of that place, stopped there for lunch and a swim on a hot day 1 of my Route 8 trip. Reading this, and the number of quarries in tough to reach pla...

So here my belated start-again-from-June BAM write up, from Saturday night 29th June. Just very local, and as you will see in a mo not exactly a glorious midsummer endless sunset followed by endless sunrise basking in warm summer sunshine kind of affair, but it felt good to manage to get out and do ...

Blackhound wrote: ↑Sun Jun 30, 2024 5:12 pm Gairy lived in the Ardeche for a few years and should be able to give you some advice

Salmon, maybe chicken bones and tomatoes? Hard to tell in the photo, Very odd, is it a wild bbq spot ? Yep, big hunks of uncooked salmon, cooked chicken bones, and BBQ ed courgettes... Yes I reckon a discarded BBQ ... :roll: I'm sure the birds of prey are going to love the fish, but I do worry abou...

A thread for the amusing, interesting, unusual or just downright odd discoveries made whilst out-n-about. :lol: :geek: :wink: :shock: Ha! Found it! I knew we had a thread somewhere for the odd things we find along the way when out riding.... This one last night, WTF?!? https://live.staticflickr.com...

I'm back to it, went out last night

As I've broken my 2024 BAM run, shall I still post it here, or somewhere else please, Mr Scores-on-the-doors?

boxelder wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 10:38 am Have you seen the route on bike packing.com?
https://bikepacking.com/routes/ardeche-cevennes-divide/

Also this https://en.francevelotourisme.com/cycle ... ntain-bike

Ooo

No, I hadn't - cheers!

Also ordered the absolute essentials: A bed, and some speakers - everything else is clearly purely optional :lol: A bed? A bed you say?!?!! Surely a thermarest, inflatable pillow, and quilt would suffice.... :lol: :wink: Ah, fair point, I had originally planned on going back to student years of jus...

Hi, has anyone ever done any riding and/ore bikepacking in that part of the South of France? If you have, please could you share any info or tips you have? I'm currently toying with the idea of taking my dad, or rather some of his ashes, on one last road trip, to some of the places he loved best, an...

Almost, almost, almost - at one point today it looked like we were actually going to complete on our new bijou shoebox in Brynmawr today - so that made for a very very cheery Friday and I was so excited I had to buy a celebratory double ice cream from Llanfaes Dairy (gooseberry crumble and raspberry...

Feeling good - Nina Simone

https://youtu.be/ROd83UIWP8Y

Cheery Friday here, because there's at long last a bit of movement on the new house front...I use the word "house" loosely (tiny house before it became a trendy modern movement) - and no, I'm not talking subsidence either :lol: Young Miss Z has got through two full weeks now of riding a mo...

Very nice

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 10:46 pm Ah, that sounds sub optimal. Enjoy it when you get back out there.

I will

As is probably obvious by now, I'm out :( May was quite the month family stuff wise... In hindsight, of course, if only I hadn't left it so late in the month, bla bla bla... Fatigue got the better of me on any free evenings with dog sitter available as the month went on, and then my last final tiny ...

Transatlantic sessions

Only recently found out about the 2014 Beeb production of Under Milk Wood, bringing together loads of Welsh talent, "phoning in" from lots of different locations... Michael Sheen, Tom Jones, Charlie Church, Sian Phillips, and more. Nearly bought a DVD but just found it on the Tube.... bes...

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 11:18 pm I've spent the evening listening to Nick Helm. He's a funny potty mouth.

Oh yes, he's brilliant isn't he - had forgotten about him, so thanks for the reminder

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 10:58 am Allen's made it round the top, that means it's all downhill now, right?

Yay! Go Allen!

I am currently on daily hospital visiting duties, and it's all a little complicated, having temporarily misplaced both my free dog sitters, so available time windows to go out riding are very precious indeed. Yesterday was such a window, and I was already proud of myself when I managed to leave the ...

Philosophical question: is breakfast still breakfast if it involves coffee, but not food? Let's just assume that it is, and that this counts as Breakfast with a View and a Half - admittedly no bike was involved - but if it wasn't for bikepacking I don't think I'd have thought of bringing a stove up ...