Richard G wrote:Yeah, we ended up sneaking all four of us into the room.

you were in Yorkshire ....they'd expect no less

whitestone wrote: Having got to the gate at the top of the last climb....

so many gates

whitestone wrote: Estimated riding time was 25hrs10 and did 24hrs35. Not a bad guess IMO.

" Being ornery, all this talk of batteries and GPS doesn't affect me and my maps :smile: . I suppose a spare iron might help when they get wet. years ago I used to do trailquest with a paper map on the bars, that was a right royal faff. much nicer having a moving map on the screen though the &...

That's my take on it Stu. Gloves have subtly different padding, etc. (could be complete cobblers!) I saw a blog post by a lady cyclist who carried two different brands of shorts because they had different padding and therefore different contact points. after a bit of googling...... 2 x different br...

I think the distinction between spare parts and back-up items needs some thinking about ... many people are listing what I'd consider to be spare parts for the seemingly inevitable mechanical. I'd list back-up items as a second of something you're already carrying, so carrying 2 hats, 2 pairs of gl...

Ray Young wrote:Nothing unless you count a phone with the route on viewranger in case the the Garmin crashes.

yup, that would count as a back-up

A modern phone is a very capable GPS,in fact I sold my garmin and use my iPhone as it's better. Get a dynamo hub and a battery, it will almost keep up with power needs on its own. I don't take any duplicate items apart from changing leads as they fail without any warning. wow! are you never paranoi...

I am coming to appreciate that effective bikepacking is travelling light, and only taking what is needed. it is a challenge finding that balance; some of you guys make it look so easy from doing some long events and chatting with people during these events has made be realise that things do break. s...

my GPS is usually super reliable and very accurate.

riding a track on YD300 it kept dropping the GPS on a particular section
once I had cleared that section it was fine.

anyone else have issues around here.....
https://binged.it/2si2PPL

Wonder if I win the award for slowest finisher.
22:45 Sunday night
School boy error, should have asked for some food to be put in my car.
Be breakfast time soon.
Home time.
Missed the chippy by about 3mins.
Sat outside pizza central with chips.

Pickers wrote:So, do we talk in any detail about what we do with other people?

until they glaze over.

however, most of my friends know i'm nuts

annoyingly there is an adventure race on that weekend.

would it be possible to buy a t-shirt in medium?

Richard G wrote:Bollocks to it. I'm not feeling any better but I'm going to travel up anyway.

If I didn't at least give feeling better tomorrow a chance I'd never live it down with the grizzled northerners.

see you later

Might be worth looking at a Garmin inReach. Though I do say might . Unit is more expensive, cheapest I've seen it is around 350 ish after various discount codes and cash back. There is a £25 annual fee to keep the account active. Monthly subscription ranges from £0 (suspended) to ~£104 (the full bif...

I rode home via a cheeky detour over one of the local moors just to check on conditions. There's a lot of surface water around as you'd expect after the deluge of the past 36hrs but apart from one or two obvious places it's not actually very muddy and a lot of the time I wasn't even leaving tyre ma...

Following on from the above.
One can use a dry bag for washing.
Clothes, water, liquid soap.
Empty.
Rinse.

Richard G wrote:Weather looking properly grim. Just for that added challenge.

I feel some man flu coming on

Went to Iceland last year wild camping, heading back again shortly.

For two weeks I had two t-shirts and three pairs of socks.

Wet wipes work a treat.

Glass screen is asking for trouble on such a device.

Thought Garmin was being cheap having a plastic screen on the Montana 610 until the first time I dropped it.

tagging thread for updates

Bearbonesnorm wrote:Do people really think I'd expect anyone to order an item of clothing without first doing my upmost to convey the sizing informatation? I thought my previous sarcasm might have gotten that across ... or maybe people think I was serious

no comment

Looking at Richard's pictures I think I mark the top of that as an alert on my Garmin to warn me it's coming up :shock: Don't think I'll be challenging for a top place on the leader-board on Strava down there :lol: It could be worse, could be pushing a loaded bike up it. if stu had done the route h...

Confirmation email out! Let's hope for good weather! Are you guys aiming to bivvi or do it in one shot? my rough plan is..... * stop around midnight * 200km (ribblehead pub) * when-I-fall-off-the-bike-asleep (whichever comes first) get up around 5 ish am started plotting the various pubs (for water...

an interesting way to look at things...... I have a smaller Anker pack (big one is at work) the pack is 13,400mAh or 46.8Wh working in Wh as this removes the problem with different voltages/currents of the electrical systems. a SON dynamo hub is 3W output <<< I thought the output was higher than tha...

Other than holidays, and fixed events I tend not to plan.
Less to go wrong that way.
Now lists, I do a mean packing list.