A satisfying bike build - and a really nice end result. Well done!!

I'll take these if they're still available? Pm me your details etc and I can send money over.
Cheers
Steve

How good is the camera on the 2 battery drone?

In fact Mike, I'm sure you showed me how to import on my phone, so if you can't figure it out then I'll be no help whatsoever!!

I use MM on my Samsung phone. I did import the maps somehow and transferred the licence, and then bought new maps a year ago in a sale (the originals were at least 10 years old and of questionable heritage). Seemed to work OK for a luddite like me, but I'd suggest following the instructions to the l...

I got some for the Tour Divide last year - Endura ones. Very comfy and the pockets were used occasionally for food when I couldn't fit it anywhere else. Also credit cards that I couldn't afford to lose. I don't find the pockets useful for everyday riding though - I use jersey pockets for normal stuf...

I'm more worried that it's in the house Stu not the workshop. Unless you have a very neat workshop....

Top work though - will it be a bit noodley though?

Cracking ride/push Karl. Well done.

Looking forward to the write up and hearing the tales. -40 is deadly cold, so glad you got through it!!

Was that the fence around a pheasant enclosure or something? Across a bridleway (hence the person on a bike shaped hole).

The memories are slowly returning.... I don't think a rerun is on the cards

Just thinking back to 2014, the only bits I remember that were really bad were the 2 sections of tussocky hike a bike before the Coed y brenin climb.
Were there more?

Wow, she was fantastic. I think I'll be getting her autobiographies

Stu , is the Big Bear the original 520 route or the 530 v2 version? (I haven't looked)

Plus, are you thinking this could be expanded to have other routes (WC2C, TCW etc etc)

Just got this from Steve yesterday - cheers pal

Just got to say that it looks a brilliant piece of kit. Pump, tools, tyre plugs, patches and co2 cartridge all in 1 package. And well made so it hopefully won't fall apart the first time it's used.

Steve, ill take this if still available. I've only got 7 pumps and 12 multitools so need another combo.

Pm me your details etc

The go to tyres are either Vittorio Mezcals or Maxxis Ikons in my book. Both excellent

I do this, but a word of warning. Weigh the can before, not the weight on the can which states it's full weight..... But never over fill this weight on the can, because it's easy to do and it makes lighting your burner like dodging a volcano with no control. :oops: How would someone know that? 😄

Got some Mt Zoom flat bars. Not sure if they are 680mm wide but they are light *circa 150g or less I think.

You can have then for £20 ish as I don't like selling carbon bars (or any bars). They're never crashed as far as I can remember.

Or just double wrap any grip tape??

I just use ITM or PlanetX stuff on my road bike, for the Tour Divide I used Ergon grips and standard bar tape on the aero bars.

I think I got the sleeping outdoors bug in the cubs, then aged about 13 or 14 a few mates rode from Warwick to Malvern youth hostel and stayed overnight - I remember pouring over OS maps sorting a route out, and loading panniers with gear. A while later we did a 4 or 5 night youth hostel tour ending...

I only met her relative, Jefferson. He was super nice bloke. Lots of bits of food in the cupboards with eat by dates well in the past, but it was a useful stop. There was a plaque on the wall outside to a fella who'd died on the 1st or 2nd ever RAAM or similar back in 2002. I did wonder if he was th...

A 2018 Spesh Epic, 2nd hand but from the bike shop owner... Next bike will be a nice road bike as my existing bike is a 2012 Ribble with 40k miles on. I'd love an SWorks Tarmac but I want it to look super special and their current paint is not what I want. Thinking of custom but then I'm all out of ...

Was good to see people at the start - lots of old faces and plenty of new ones. I had half a plan to ride with Zippy, but he decided his fitness wasn't up for a push north, so he went south towards Nant y Moch reservoir, whilst I headed north (pretty much ignoring all the Bank Job grid refs, but I t...

Had Arenig Fawr bothy to myself, which was good as it was wet inside and very tiny. Snow and hail last night around that area....glad I wad inside

I've been scouring the classifieds for a while for a 2nd hand neoair xlite and they seem to go for 120-140 on eBay. Saved the arseache and scored one new for 120 post free here - https://www.elitemountainsupplies.co.uk/camping-trekking-c4/sleeping-c17/thermarest-sleeping-mats-c19/thermarest-neoair-...

I am going after a British Cycle Quest clue near Abergynolwen so heading out past CAT, down to Tywyn and Happy Valley / NCN8 and into Mach for breakfast and then back via Forge. About 100km with a 10km bonus near the endif I am feeling frisky. Weather may scupper plans,I have not looked yet. Into M...