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- Thu May 02, 2024 8:24 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Trossachs daughter/dad ride and camp
- Replies: 5
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Re: Trossachs daughter/dad ride and camp
superb! what a great dad you are, keep up the good work, it'll pay dividends
- Wed May 01, 2024 9:00 am
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: Railwalks.co.uk
- Replies: 1
- Views: 450
Re: Railwalks.co.uk
I spoptted this in the Gaurdian too. Website seems to be a 'one stop shop' for links to external sites with (uneven) inf on walks from various GB railway stations, I was hoping for something a bit more interactive, with mapping and routes plotted, perhaps that's a next step. 'Railwalks', not to be c...
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:33 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47449
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I'm really impressed with the Fray Bentos on a Trangia!
I was always rather partial to a FB as a student, back in the day
I was always rather partial to a FB as a student, back in the day
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536362
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
good to get out in the sunshine...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4576
Re: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
good stuff, tbh I normally just get out the OS 1:50k maps and look for 'yellow' and 'white' roads!redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:22 pm Thanks Kieth. That's how I found that alternate path above the A5.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 11:59 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4576
Re: Anyone local to these areas able to review (sections of) my route pls?
on avoiding busy / main roads have you tried route-planning using this:
https://cycle.travel/map?lat=54.3742&lon=-7.0313&zoom=8
and setting to 'gravel', so see what comes up as alternatives?
cheers,
Keith
https://cycle.travel/map?lat=54.3742&lon=-7.0313&zoom=8
and setting to 'gravel', so see what comes up as alternatives?
cheers,
Keith
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 8555
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
there was a similar CyclingUK mag feature done a couple of years ago, about a father and son 'bikepacking' in Scotland, "We opted for B&Bs over camping so we could travel light – and enjoy a bit of comfort." https://www.cyclinguk.org/cycle-magazine/great-rides-cairngorm-trails CyclingU...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47449
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
and what a top film it is too
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255800
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Mountain Warehouse backpacker tent https://www.mountainwarehouse.com/backpacker-lightweight-1-man-tent-p28463.aspx/green/ use FUN20 to get a further reduction, brings the price down to around forty five quid, has anyone tried one of these? weight seems good but not sure about the way it seems to ope...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: NC500 in 1925
- Replies: 12
- Views: 640
Re: NC500 in 1925
great to see that list there's a certain poetry to this
28. Because the bicycle runs on but one narrow track, so that it can travel the moorland paths, and even cross the Larig Ghru Pass and High Cup Nick, as it has done.
28. Because the bicycle runs on but one narrow track, so that it can travel the moorland paths, and even cross the Larig Ghru Pass and High Cup Nick, as it has done.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1547
- Views: 275219
Re: What you done t' your bike today
my teenage son is horrified, I have stuck a rack on the back of the bike :shock: but as I said to him, this is bikepacking on the cheap :cool: so a bike off Gumtree, £65, goes pretty well, I like the gearing but the old 3x is a tad old skool :lol: then a half price Topeak Explorer rack from Halford'...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5048
Re: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
That looks brilliant, thanks for posting the pics and words
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2893
Re: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
No real plans. Need to work on fitness, so try to get out more. +1 my bike fitness has dipped in the last six months due to an annoying soft tissue injury picked up trying to keep up with my teenage son on his bike! my plans for 2024 include a sort of 'build-up prog' over the next 6 months or so: 1...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:11 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 16919
Re: Todays walk
couldn't get my son's new bike on the Passat this afternoon without some roof bar adjustment so we went for a walk instead in the Belfast Hills, gorgeous weather if a bit blowy
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 7:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4945
- Views: 1255800
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 4:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11457
- Views: 1984931
Re: The post man's been ...
ex army goretex bivvy, BF discount, from GoArmy, looks basically unused right, all set for an overnighter...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 1:47 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205395
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
lovely pics @fatbikephil, curious what it was about, 'in the dark it all looked a bit iffy', that put you off the spot? An all too common scenario for me - you scope out a spot on the map, check out the aerials, add some nous and think "that looks like it will be OK" Then you get there, i...
- Sat Nov 11, 2023 11:25 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205395
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
lovely pics @fatbikephil, curious what it was about, 'in the dark it all looked a bit iffy', that put you off the spot?
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 11:48 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14862
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
lovely write up and pictures, especially Cwmystwyth, I've been there a few times to see the old mines, looks very atmospheric.
cheers,
Keith
cheers,
Keith
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 4:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1547
- Views: 275219
Re: What you done t' your bike today
some adjustments, saddle and seat post, plus more air in the tyres:
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: GENESIS Altitude. Hope wheels.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 819
Re: GENESIS Altitude. Hope wheels.
well if I lived anywhere near Worthing I'd be splashing the cash
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 9:31 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The Dullest Square
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1412
Re: The Dullest Square
I think if this same grid square was seen using the 1:25000 series instead of the 1:50000 it would be more interesting!
The 25k series shows field boundaries etc so there would be less 'white space'.
The 25k series shows field boundaries etc so there would be less 'white space'.
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 7:36 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cycling UK Campaign re: Thirlmere
- Replies: 3
- Views: 700
Re: Cycling UK Campaign re: Thirlmere
FYI (and support if you agree): https://www.cyclinguk.org/blog/object-proposed-cycling-ban-lake-district-road worth looking too at the Cumbria Cycling Strategy document, on page 11, the map includes the Thirlmere route: https://councilportal.cumbria.gov.uk/documents/s66323/App%201%20Cumbria%20Cycli...
- Mon Sep 04, 2023 1:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lake District guide coming soon
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1356
Re: Lake District guide coming soon
Never received mine, so cancelled the order. Didn’t need it anyway, was just an impulse buy to have a nose mine took a long time to arrive in the post. I got a despatch notice by email on Aug 19 with inf saying 'UK deliveries should arrive in 1-2 working days'. it finally came last week while I was...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 11:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lake District guide coming soon
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1356
Re: Lake District guide coming soon
I ordered from the publisher, bit of a discount, I like Cicerone guides, this looks good, lots of maps and useful inf, first impressions :-bd just one improvement would be to have had larger scale maps but this would have taken up more space, so the guide on its own wouldn't be sufficient for naviga...