I've had a few sets of Aldi merino base layers too. I've been using them for a couple of years now and they're still going strong. I love them. On the TCW last July I wore them for three days and smelt a lot better than my Helly Hansen man-made fibre ones after an afternoon. They are quite thin, tho...

Bearbonesnorm wrote:

1955 BSA BB32.

Clubmans trim?

Yup! it had been owned by an apprentice at the BSA factory and had everything - GP carb, RRT2 box. I bought it for £55 from a mate. I could weep when I think of it.

1955 BSA BB32. Put it in px for a Reliant 3-wheeler van like Del Trotters but blue
Wanted a car, but only had a motorbike licence.

I don't like riding in the heat, so autumn/winter is better for me. However, a lot of the pleasure of riding is looking over the hedges to see what there is to see, so riding in the dark and only seeing what's lit up is not for me.

B.A.M. 8/8 Newtown Wood. Penycae. 10-ish mile ride out from home. Puncture on the way. Fat bike tyres take some inflating with a little pump, I found out. arrived just before dusk. I'd thought thiswould be a good hammocking spot when I first came past here last winter. Well-spaced trees with no unde...

Money sent. XL please. Somehow, I came home from WRT with a tiny T-Shirt.

Ta muchly.

Re: quilts and Hammocks Thanks for the replies chaps. I use a Thermarest to stave off the chilly bottom when hammocking. It's not ideal and I'm sure an underquilt is better, but the thermarest gives me the option to sleep on the ground under the tarp if there are no suitable trees about. So, I'll no...

My DD Hammocks Jura 2 sleeping bag was bought with canoe camping in mind. I like to sleep off the ground in a hammock and the Jura is ideal for that, with a cordura footwell and a centre zip that makes it easy to get in and out of while in the hammock. But..... Its bulk and weight make it wrong for ...

I've thought about this before because both my bikes have a small triangle for a frame bag. It could be done, sure, but you'd have to get some platformed shoes to allow for the increased stand-over height. I thought that another, short, bag fitted below the saddle would be a better option. A third o...

7/7 TransCambrian Way One night in my hammock https://farm1.staticflickr.com/514/19533448705_689d492f0e_z.jpg here's the bridle path that leads to the woods. https://farm1.staticflickr.com/367/19534019645_03f6f2bb1f_z.jpg Believe it or not, there is quite a good path through this lot and I was able ...

Webb H12R [url=https://flic.kr/p/vcFwGf] https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/309/19166540350_a95cd2f207_z.jpg [/url Sad, I know, but I'm disproportionally chuffed with this. No Engine, No cable. Check out the stripes. :-). And I get some exercise pushing it. That's got to be the rigid singlespeed of lawn...

Around Ruabon mountain. https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/416/18514919770_52984fb968_z.jpg My current round-the-block ride. The trouble is, to get to the pretty bits, I've first got to cycle 27k on the road. https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/269/18520697658_56bb756e55_z.jpg On that hump in the middle is Cro...

Webb H12R


Sad, I know,
but I'm disproportionally chuffed with this. No Engine, No cable. Check out the stripes. . And I get some exercise pushing it.

6/6 Minera Mountain. All my bivvys so far have been in my hammock. For a change, I thought I'd try sleeping on the ground out in the open so I could look at the wonders of the heavens away from light pollution. To this end, after tea, I pedalled (about 23 miles) to the top of said mountain and found...

I'm having an age crisis. It's not so much the riding I enjoy as the still being able to do it.

I hope you were serious. I sure was. Thanks. You look like you know what you're doing :-bd https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7690/17398542392_d40d15b823_c.jpg [/quote] Flippin' 'eck my bike looks so smaaaall. Thanks Matt and you others for leading me back through the forest on the last day. As for fro...

There's a Polish metaphor that translates to,"Where they are shoeing a horse, a frog offers his foot to have a horseshoe fitted" To explain, the frog is not a horse but thinks he is. I change it to "Like a frog at the farriers", it reads better like that don't you think? So why am I posting this? We...

5/5 On the WRT, in the forest about 2 miles short of Nant Syddion, having done about 8 miles more than I would have done had I reached my intended destination at Nant Rhys, if I hadn't been stymied by the rally in Hafren and taken a few wrong turns. Had to set up and cook in the dark (goulash and sp...

It's 8 o'clock and I'm still cramming stuff into my alredy stuffed ful bike

I posted an April bivvy earlier but that was a walk-in. I was feeling that it didn't really count as there was no bike involved, so I packed my bike and pedalled out to Erddig park to camp on the motte & bailey. This is a very pretty spot at the moment with carpets of primroses between the trees. ht...

I like your video a lot. I thought I'd have a go at videoing myself (and enyone else in the vicinity) so I got a Gopro and a few bits to mount it here and there. The trouble is, I can't make myself stop riding/kiting/canoeing to set 'em up. All my videos to date are one-scene disappointments. I am f...

s8tannorm wrote:I make bleating noises ... the good ones usually get a response. Kind of a Welsh mating call I suppose

Have you ever pulled?

Thanks for all the replies and advice chaps. So I've realised that a clean sweep is out of the question. This makes life a lot simpler for planning a route. Or not. I think maybe I'll try to link the nearby bothies and add any checkpoints that are within reach. That way I might bump into a few other...

Chew wrote:I'd have a look at possibly removing a couple of GR's to bring the mileage down slightly and look at the amount of climbing you have. Its the climbing that gets you (moreso loaded).

Thanks for the quick replies and re-assurances and yup, it's back to Memory Map and where's the path for me.

Lu

Oh heck! I’ve been plotting a route for WRT. Leaving out a couple of checkpoints (the one in the middle of nowhere and the one on the island), my route comes to 126 miles. That’s over 40 miles a day. I can manage that. Where it all falls down, is the total ascent at 21,000ft. Ooh-err missus that’s g...