Thankfully I decided to head towards Wicken Wild Camping (currently shut) It's a shame that they closed this place :cry: When I phoned them about booking it in December last year, they said they were hoping to open it again later this year. I'm assuming the composting loo needed moving or something...

Top work JudithG! Sounds like a proper adventure. With my daughter out at her girlfriends and my wife out for the evening with a couple of her friends, I was at a loose end. As I'm on-call over the end of the month and with the weather being settled, for a change, I decided to head out for my bivvy....

I think the only thing that should be pointed out, is Reg's penchant for cycling during extreme precipitation... Do we know if Karl has also angered the rain Gods in some way...?

Bike packing is clearly bike and camping. Removing one ( camping or bike ) means it cannot be bike packing ( how far you go is irrelevant) Not sure that argument stacks up though. If bike packing is named after back packing, then your argument would suggest that to go back packing you must also cam...

As an aside, sharing a drive could work, but what if they talk too much or really annoy me (or vice versa)? I guess I could leave them at some service station in Essex.... Buy a good pair of noise cancelling headphones. I shudder to think about spending 1,500 miles in a car with someone I barely kn...

Since my last update, I've knocked off both of these, which I thought were excellent and inspiring: Other Ways to Win by Lee Craigie Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham I then started to read Disaster Capitalism by Antony Loewenstein , but have had to put it down. I'm now knee deep in: ADHD...

Mine feels like it has something similar at the top of the mat. I assumed it was a bit of foam to stop the down for migrating between tubes...

If you have a frame bag, then there's cheaperer options like the Apidura frame pack hydration bladder . I wear a CamelBak Chase with 1.5L reservoir, while I'm not mad keen on wearing it on hot days, it's nice to have the equivalent of a couple of big bottles of water on me. I do occasionally run out...

Ouch, I feel your ditch pain. Heal quickly.

https://meagaidhblog.sais.gov.uk/2024/04/an-cearcallach-moy-coire-rain-snow-rain/ See images of Met Office forecast over March - looks like we need to head to NW Scotland. Similar parallels to 2012 when The NW got roasted and the rest of the UK nearly drowned, for the whole of spring and summer. We...

Evidently, in February, we had 248% of the twenty year average rain fall around here.

riderdown wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:58 am

Alpkit have an new 900g tent, the Ultra 1.

Looks the same as https://www.sportpursuit.com/catalog/pr ... id/2679553

But with carbon fibre poles

Lighter weight fly material as well, 10D v 15D...

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:10 am Howwwww much???

You mean you don't want to curate your kit down to the last detail...?

Headed out late last night after disco night at the ice rink. Would've been earlier but needed to chat to my wife about our daughter who has gone and given herself an eating disorder that is way worse that we first feared*. 😞 Conditions were super grippy and I had to stop multiple times to scrape mu...

The arse end of my gravel bike is covered in dried on tyre sealant. It doesn't seem to want to come off with the application of detergent and elbow grease. Anyone got any tips on how to clean it off...?

So has anyone studied what looks like an inverse correlation between the time remaining in the month to get in a bivvy, and the likelihood of it being raining? It was absolutely hoofing it down last night; tomorrow is looking rather bad as well. Was thinking about going out tonight, but daughter is...

Note that this isn't a year round route, due to the Felixstowe Ferry : Daily service from May to September, weekends only from Good Friday to 30 April and October. 10:00am – 5.00pm (weather permitting). EDIT: My first thought after looking at that is they've managed to make various bits nice and con...

Just about to go and shove 1KG of coffee beans through my new grinder. I'm like a kid with a new toy... 😀 Bob. It's Friday evening, you should be drinking beer, not coffee! It was a kilo bag of the cheapest crap I could find, no way would I want to make anything with the resulting grounds. 🤮 Will b...

Just about to go and shove 1KG of coffee beans through my new grinder. I'm like a kid with a new toy...

I'm at the office, but have had an email telling me my new coffee grinder has been delivered...

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:51 pm The last descent was a bit lumpy....

The chute of death "a bit lumpy"...!?! I got off and walked.

Suddenly remembered, Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham is out on paperback today...

Finished reading The Physics of Filter Coffee by Jonathan Gagné and bought a new coffee grinder yesterday. Also recently read: 1923 : The Mystery of Lot 212 and a Tour de France Obsession by Ned Boulting, which I thought was brilliant and strangely emotional; Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, so good...

yorkshirebiking wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:36 pm There won't be a 300 mile route this year but there will be one for 2025.