Max Effort My Vagabond suits my local riding conditions and my style of riding. I live a 15 mile ride of tame trails and minor roads to the Surrey Hills. My Arkrose is too uncomfortable, when loaded, to tackle the off road sections, my Longitude too slow and boring getting there. I have done several...

Love mine

Hi Tim

see this chaps video - you will like him as he takes his chair bikepacking! i found the link to his stove but not sure if anyone is importing them

Ben


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p-aRya ... tion=share

https://seekoutside.com/titanium-wood-stoves/

cheers Stu happy new year to you and Dee

ben

Cheers stu did I imagine you did a review ? Does yours fit in a standard bottle cage ?

My plastic water bottles are looking decidedly ropey. I was thinking of upgrading to aluminium or even titanium - any recommendations? I would prefer a lid that I can drink from whilst riding but it seems that all sports tops are plastic so happy with a screw top or possible both options. I may be h...

sorry just re read the 1 picture rule - first one please

chilterns BAM with The Brown Dog

i ll take it Stu

payment on the way

Dogtag has Bikepacking and extreme or competition (i think) bikepacking listed as activities.

7/7 The Ardennes Arbalete After last months poor show I had hoped this trip would redeem my BAM credentials. A 6 day trip to Belgium, using the Eurostar from St Pancras, proved very good fun with very little pain or suffering. I wild camped the first night at Lac de le Gileppe. The camp was a dedica...

6/6 June Brittany (possibly) The last 2 years I have failed in June and this year was nearly no exception. I did manage a bivvy in my mates garden in central Brittany, a bike (Big Dummy) was involved either day although it was towing these two monkeys and I didn't arrive at camp carrying my gear in....

May 19 5/5 WRT Edition this was the start of my monster riding holiday - WRT, PBW and Moors 100 which I will do as a separate write up some time. Rob and I made friends with Alex in the Star on friday and spent a great weekend riding him and Ed. This was our saturday nights bivvy - an absolutely ama...

Crikey those german ones are expensive. i bought a Little Van kids trailer off ebay for £1 with a broken hitch. fitted a new Burley hitch rubber which connected into an existing axle mount that we already had for the kids trailer. The bottom section is an aluminium box and I had intended to strip th...

brilliant - great film. I really enjoyed that and has made a mundane saturday a bit more fun.

Hopefully it will inspire me to at least download my footage!

we also had a great time thanks guys for organizing. my particular highlights were: meeting some of the WRT riders twice in a week; Paradise Farm; 2 x chorizo and jalapeno pizzas; riding the route on saturday with my mates and Ian; being the pack raft joke and the route on sunday until we decided to...

WRT is go

4/4 the Easter edition https://i.imgur.com/LvV6lMU.jpg Cycled to the MiL's for sunday dinner rode back and bivvyed in the vacant scout camp at Wisley - with the roar of the M25 in the background. Forgot my helmet light which made riding through the woods tricky and I fell in to a broken manhole at t...

The grid reference finder is brilliant. I am trying to export the grid refs as gpx file and get the following; https://i.imgur.com/4wnAMTp.png Any idea what I am doing wrong or how I can fix this? I think my computer is opening Garmin Basecamp by default which wouldn't be a problem if it worked! tha...

I have my bike voucher to Caersws. The local ticket office was shut so I used this number ‭ 0870 333 3555‬ Trainlines Indian call centre who helpfully checked that there was cycle availability on both trains before issuing a voucher code. Having booked I now realise I want to be at The Star not BBT ...

thanks all - very useful. I am going to my local station today in the morning to see if I can book a bike.

I should have clarified this is for WRT - not just popping into bother Stu unannounced!

Is it possible? Easy ? I am assuming train to Caerwas and then an hour cycle on the road.

Do you need to book the bike on the train from Birmingham? Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks

3/3 After last months defection to the Chilterns back to home for a Surrey Hills loop. Took the Vagabond on its maiden bikepacking voyage which resulted in a swap around from my usual set up to accommodate the drops. Wet and cooking bag on the bars, dry sleeping gear and clothes in the seat pack. Th...

Nice job Tim. You will need to add a few more before you reach the Longitude’s fighting weight

Enjoy the rugby