Cor Avenue Road looks lovely. Very quiet and peaceful. Every time I'm in the area I make sure to stop for a bit at Abergavenny. I've heard that the town was/is a bit rough, but I find it charming whenever I'm there. The town's had its ups and downs but definitely experiencing an up right now. The c...

The Byefield Lane car park in the centre of town off Tudor Street is free any day except Tuesday. I don't think there's a prohibition on overnight parking but can check for you tomorrow. On street parking can get a bit aggro around the train station, and close to the primary schools and in the centr...

I'm farily happy with mine. Had at least half of England and a quart of Wales worth of OS in viewranger. Got the transfer code over to Outdoor Active. In the maps icon when making a route, it has a blanked out OS button but when I click it I get the full UK in OS maps. Can then make my routes. One ...

Having tried most of the apparent alternatives to Viewranger and not found any of them to be very good, this week I chanced upon the Topo GPS app. Seems pretty good - you can buy individual OS squares, or get an annual sub for £24.99 which covers Explorer and Landranger and provides for downloading ...

The one ROW oddity that amuses me locally is it's not possible to legally cycle to the start of the Millenium Trail / NCN 55. If you follow the sign posted route you get to the end of a road and then you're told to dismount and then walk the 300m or so down a gravel road and then dodge through a co...

I encounter more and more of these, and I am increasingly taking the view that if it's fit for riding then I'll ride it, whether a BW or FP. Only exceptions being trails in parkland and the like if they are very busy with pedestrians. I feel very strongly that natural justice is on our side, that th...

With the appropriate adaptor, he should be able to backup a memory card to a phone or tablet.

Or get him one of those rugged, waterproof cases for multiple SD / microSD cards. Once inside there it's less easily mislaid.

I should add that I've never tried the S2S folding mugs. They don't look very sensible - the Swedish 'Wildo' ones work quite well, and are much cheaper. I'll stand by the folding bowl - the base is surprisingly useful as a cutting board.

Collapsible S2S Pots, Plates & Cups on offer at Rock & Run- https://rockrun.com/pages/search-results-page?q=sea+to+summit+x The Pots look good, although never used one! Sea to Summit cookware is pretty good, well made and well designed, in my experience, though clearly not as lightweight as...

People have been using bikes to explore the British Isles since the 1870s, so there's very little 'new under the sun'. As long those hawking 'new' route ideas give a little nod to the generations that have come before us, I think all is well. Sometimes a refresh and a rebrand is all that's needed to...

If you can't get a mattress protector etc for for free, the CTC bike bags are £12 and made of fairly thick plastic sheet, should be good for a few years at least. https://www.wiggle.co.uk/ctc-cycling-uk ... c-bike-bag

This website lists every fare for every journey on the UK rail network. Useful to work out what the basic parameters are, and helps to time your travel to get the cheapest fares.

https://www.brfares.com

The various ticket spitter sites can sometimes be helpful.

After a recommendation on here (forget who it was, sorry) I bought the Minix one, which has 3 ports. Has worked well so far, as far as I can tell. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08 ... UTF8&psc=1

I'd agree that clipping in is the opposite of the barefoot ethos. Better to go for a barefoot type shoe and a grippy flat pedal - ideally one with a concave platform, to match the shape of the ball of the foot. Then you can at least vary the position of your foot on the pedal to vary the position an...

psling wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 10:30 pm I hate to be a terrible bore but those are Dianes in Jack's photo, not 2CVs

Dyanes

whitestone wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 5:48 pm I'm going to guess at The Gap in the Brecon Beacons.

Correct! 46 years ago according to Geograph https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2150640

Obviously none of my curmudgeonliness applies to anyone driving a celebrated MTB route in a pair of 2CVs, and stopping for what looks like a picnic. Guess where?

Lots of great lanes riding in Herefordshire. Call me an old curmudgeon, but I do find it sad that these sorts of routes are being marketed primarily as a driving route, with a bullet point saying 'and you can do it by bike too if you want'. North Coast 500 and Wild Atlantic Way are primarily markete...

I bought a Lumix TZ 95 (I think, a couple of hundred quid anyway) and unless you were needing to use the extremes of the Zoom lens it was worse in every way compared to either my Huawei Mate 10 Pro or Samsung A71. I've recently bought a Samsung S21 Ultra. It's waterproof, has a proper 3x and 10x op...

Aye, Jack has it. For low light, my Pixel 6 is amazing. Astrophotography is a thing, with clear shots of stars and the milky way if that's your thing. Zoom lets it down, though again there is some clever use of microchip power to enhance the image quality. The only shots I'm not getting, and where ...

Yeah, I'd agree that a modern phone camera equals or beats almost all point and shoot cameras. Where phones aren't quite there yet is with zoom (phones have fixed lenses, any zoom feature is just a digital crop) and low light situations (phone cameras have quite small sensors). Phones are often much...

For a waterproof point and shoot, the Olympus Tough / TG series. Very durable. There are a number of "weather sealed" cameras out there. Weather sealed doesn't mean waterproof as in submersible, but should survive light spray, drizzle, dew etc. Canon G1X III is compact camera but has a big...

I feel that I really ought to share this with you - it's a direct message I've just received and in my mind, feels awfully like a veiled threat. Hi I know we have had an active discussion. Hopefully it has been a polite one. Please note Matt Robinson’s dematory comments against me and a magazine I ...

Nothing we do will change the views of the current govt who are the party of the rich and the landed gentry. I assume more militant ( unless it's mass action ) will just allow them and their billionaire friends who own the media to show us as lawless freeloaders etc ) We really need Scotland laws U...

I admire your diplomacy, Stu, have you ever considered a job in the Ukraine? They could use you right now. In my books about cycling in England and Wales I've always had a little bit that extols the pleasures of wild camping, gives a few practical tips and some suggestions for parts of the country t...