Interesting thing lights. If I could I'd like my LEDs to have the light colour of halogens, which gives a nice soft light. I find the blueish/white of new LEDs just a bit harsh to look at. In terms of angle, Guitar Ted has discussed light set up for gravel riding, he points out that lights mounted u...

Because it's all I've got to bring to the fight I'll be on a SS Singular Gryphon with H-bar loop bars. Not sure about tires yet, about to experiment with some 42c Conti cross rides on a tubeless set up, but may go with something wider. Not really knowing the route, a bigger dilemma is which gear rat...

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No one has mentioned the most important thing. Will there be a T-shirt?!

I had considered seeing whether there'd be any interest ... it might be worth doing.

Or some of those nice patches

Sounds like plenty of options, but ye, planning for a south downs
double worth of food sounds like a good idea.

Yay, I have my e-email but yet to scan the route in any detail but that's a lot of riding for only one re-supply . Now my task is to loose a load of winter weight gain and figure out what gear ratio to run on the SS? It's going to to be a fun 13 weeks. Not long is it!

Recovery, OK I didn't finish but still rode 300 miles on a ridgid SS and I scratched on Tuesday. It's now Friday and my legs feel fine. To be honest they still felt strong on tuesday when I scratched. I can run at my normal pace, I can cycle hard but my arse is still tender. I still have a bit of a ...

I and the guys I rode with had no knee issues but did suffer from either tired feet, Achilles problems. I was Ok as I went with flat pedals, power grips and inov-8 fell shoes. We all suffered with saddle sore and sore hands. And good effort Ian, I don't know how you pulled that ride out the bag!

Nice looking route Chris, one I'd like to ride myself. Let us know how it goes :)

I rode Dave's coast to coast or I should say I rode from Caernarfon to Mac where I had a pizza and caught the train home. `the route just did not 'do it' for me. I've ridden loads in Wales but there must be a better route more easterly route in North Wales.

Dan is it to late to place an order with you?

How exciting. I've long wondered why the TCW has receive so little attention in the recent trend for doubles? I rode the TCW 'E-W' last summer on a single speed with a bunch of kit and then 2 months later rode the BB200 with gears and less kit, the later was much tougher. So I expect to see some nut...

I know about that path which is why I did not bother to include it on my gpx track, but thanks :)

Next weekend (26-27th) I'll be trying out a route I've mapped from Central Birmingham to Sheffield. It's a nice 120 miles taking in lots of canal and bridleway to get to Ashbourne where it picks up the Tissington trail before heading across the Peaks. Not sure where to stay overnight yet, but think ...

Now that's a proper adventure. Hope I'm able to take part. Will be great to see how the route takes shape.

umm...next year :) Would be nice to come back feeling fit next time.

Just wanted to say thank you for a wonderful weekend out in the hills. Loved the route, a real slog at times, but great to go places I'd never been before. And thanks to Clive (and Jase) for pulling me round and the constant chat :)

Glad I stuffed the down in with the sleeping bag!

Well the bike is all packed and ready. I'll also be staying out tonight somewhere between Machynlleth train station and Ceulan Farm.

So when do we get the Bara Brith?

Look like some nice kit will be about and about in Wales this weekend. I'm just trying to decide whether to sleep in cycling kit or not...

I'd not get to hung up on the ascent, programs always differ, I always +- up to 900m. All I know is that over 4000m for 200km using bikehike makes it lumpy, which is fine, we are cycling in Wales.

The route looks good, just hope my legs are up to the task after 3 weeks off the bike. The route works just fine. I've uploaded the route via bikehike.co.uk and it gives me 4459 m of ascent. I can donwload from that website in to a number of different formats ie a gpx track (but I just used Base Cam...

This could be an idea: http://mbruk.co.uk/mbruk_WessexWay_details.htm

I'm 36, have always ridden bikes and just see bikepacking/bivvying as a way to ride very long distances even quicker. When I start wanting to lay on the beach and not ride my bike then I know the crisis has started!