why do you need turn by turn you can look at the map and track on the screen and it shows your live locaton. you can see whats coming up on the map. i use it just like a normal map but with the bonus that it shows my location and i can upload a GPX .... though i do hve an old black and white Garmin ...

back country navigator pro is my fravorate and uk os mapping , offline tiles , good value and works verry well , allso world wide open cycle map etc so have cashed a load of offline tiles for our nepal trip on there too.

washing machine drum fire pits are a lot cheaper but requier lots of hard work to get out the machine , we can get one that we use at glencoe car park in the winter burning efficiently enough that there is no smoke.

end we're just playing around outdoors

We are !

im bussy the 16th so would prefer it to be on the weekend before .... shal we have it in the lakes again , i could put togeather a bog trot from shap

i recon the fins do something even if its only a psycological improvement in stopping power due to spending that much

Di love the hebridees but never bikepacked there ( though did grow up going cycle touring there every year from before i could even ride a bike and wastowed in a trailer) more recent trips i have mostly spent climbing in Lewis etc. top place to go ! and you can basically camp on a beach nd have it t...

ianfitz wrote:I would generally favour down unless you are likely to need at as an 'on the move spare layer' the are not good at that!

thats why i like my primaloft, if im pushing on in to the small hours i can put it on and use it as a mid layer whilst stumbling and riding through the darkness and cold.

i do like my patagoia nano puff primaloft jacket, works well in uk for me even in to winter. and desnt mind beeing damp so thats a big pluss for me over down in the uk

Looks amazing,
Eve and I are off bike packing round the anaperna circuit in a couple of weeks time so this cant come soon enough. Will do some filming probably

done... we could leave some places up to the imaginations of bike packers to make routes up :P (he says with the irony of being surrounded by maps and guide books of Annapurna meticulously planning how to follow the well trodden annaperna circuit ;) hahaha using the least amount of imagination possi...

https://www.pinkbike.com/u/metg/album/lake-district/




me and my make adam ALLMOUNTAIN (enduro is just racing!!! ) "bikepacking " back in 2011 , we use to do this lots in the lakes

could just only advertise it on here I dont think we will take you to cort haha Postie Ritch might have some knowlage of this after his jenride and SSUK stuff they have been big events

we do like our ridged steel 29ers ....

love spoon saddle have one on all my bikes for years now , though this one has fallen apart and i picked up a brooks swift from Posti ritch for a good price so trying that at the moment seems good. but ye never had any issues with spoons

charge cooker SS set up for the jenride

i have this currently i have a partially compleat list of what i want to take on our nepal trip but am overwelmed by packing or anything haha... tbh most of it is just my normal bike packing kit list plus some more clothes and less camping stuff as tea houses ... but its the thought of forgeting som...

they should just pop the route on Self supported UK and then people can just go ITT it anyway if they are so inclined.

PJG wrote:From the site:
"This event is definitely not for everyone and it is probably not for you."

turns out neither is organizing events

but I wouldn't tar every producer with the same brush. maybe not the same brush but certainly a brush with a fair amount of tar or should i say resin on said brush ..... but as far as environmental impact goes all carbon is bad nomatter where it is from , i have attended enough materials lectures e...

the main problem with carbon is the lack of recyclability ... doesn't matter if its a pricey set of leaf spring forks , or a cheep Chinese seat post its all got the same problem.... its a compound material so hideous for the environment

Rutalocura sell some lightweight fly fishing gear. http://www.rutalocura.com/Tenkara.html ye japanies style tenkara style would be good on the bike , works best in rivers though whits is a problem in the uk as most river fishng rights are owned by someone, normally clubs (eg im a member of penrith ...

ye i fly fish at least as much as i mountain bike , this could be a good side line .... :D hahaha https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20245888_10154875432938506_6744095223805842107_n.jpg?oh=8a25e041b70341cdd9fcb7fb736b6c70&oe=5A46CC68 its good in the lakes we have good rivers and amazi...

was it a pain clearing up all the needles nad blood bags after those roadies had used ur van ..... nah that does sound a pretty good day out haha

Alpinum wrote:
It must carry ski's and boots much better than my fatbike.
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is fat biking in faster ad more efficient than getting your skins on ? never ridden a fat bike but this looks an interesting ski transport methood