I use the Travel Tap which I agree is a bit slow to filter but I haven't found that to be a problem really and I might be wrong but I would imagine similar systems to be much the same as It's going to take time for the water to properly filter, and I'm not sure if would trust something that was quic...

Thanks a lot johnnystorm I think we'll catch a train from Newmarket to Norwich then head north west on the railtrail and quiet roads towards the Peddars Way then follow that onto the short section of the Icknield Way trail back to Newmarket which is about 130 miles give or take. I'm also now looking...

I think the missus and me will be significantly more leisurely than 11 hrs. I think we could catch a train from Thetford to Cromer and then ride to the start of the Pedders way to add some Kim's ?

Thanks for the reply's, I think it was probably the Crikey, how much film that brought the Icknield Way to my attention, don't think we'll be taking our road bikes though :wink: I'm more familiar with the Dorset end as my sister lived in Blandford for a few years but as you say ctznsmith it will be ...

I've got a week of at Easter with the missus and we're hoping to do a 3/4 day trip and will be wildcamping. We had been planning on the Trans Cambrian but the missus is a bit concerned her lack of saddle time due to work commitments lately means the big Welsh hills will make it a bit of a sufferfest...

My favourite pack is the https://www.theomm.com/products/packs/classic32/.It's a slightly different one now but mine has been well used for the last 5 years and is only just starting to show signs of wear in the shape of a tear which happened from overloading it but it was easily fixed with some ten...

Thanks Zonc we will be using the route as the basis for a few trips into the peaks this year hopefully. I think it would work well reversed as its mostly flat on the Macc canal and the NCN route 55 and I think you're legs would appreciate it after a few hard days in the Peaks. We have fell asleep wh...

The Last Gentleman Adventurer-Coming of age in the Arctic is a great book about a man named Edward Beauclerc Maurice who at 16 signed on with the Hudson Bay Company in the 1930's and tells his story about living with the Inuit and and running a fir trading post a really interesting read as he was on...

Have changed the colours now. .

Yeah that sounds like it paramart, I'd been that way before but we were both running on empty when we did it and it could of 6,000 m up the side of a mountain for the way we felt at the time ! Like you say fitness is key to really enjoying it. We both knew it was going to be hard because we hadn't d...

Thanks Richpips, you're not the first person to say that about the colours and I've been thinking about a revamp so it's going to get a colour change

http://cycleofaddiction.blogspot.co.uk/ ... e.html?m=1

Link to my blog post on a 3 day trip with the missus into the Peaks from our doorstep.

Thanks johnnystorm for sorting the link out..probably a good idea not to share with the missus if your hoping for her to join you on an outing.. I'm pleased to say it hasn't put my girlfriend off..it has given us a funny tale to tell but it could quite easily of gone the other way

cycleofaddiction.blogspot.com/.../bikep ... ight.html‎

The above url is a link to my blog that has an interesting tale about my poor girlfriend's first taste at bikepacking