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- Sun Nov 26, 2023 12:52 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 202443
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Looks lovely, that. Can feel the chill from the pics though!
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 11:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3995
- Views: 524190
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
...and you're a bit early for December?
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 12:47 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Whats your trouser of choice?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11226
Re: Whats your trouser of choice?
If you don't need waterproof, these are fine: https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/men-s-water-repellent-mountain-bike-cycling-trousers/_/R-p-309674 The arse and shin areas are water repellent (at best). The half length fly zip reduces bunching. Does mean you need to pull the waistband down a bit if you ...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 10:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 147877
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 11:55 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 202443
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
I can confirm I made it out of the pub. Despite this place's tendency for threads to drift (or indeed veer wildly) off-topic, there are Standards To Be Upheld, and if it had just been a trip t'pub, I'd have kept it in the "What are you drinking?" thread. Also, my antisocial streak means I'...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 11:17 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 147877
Re: Wildlife
A badger, a fox, and lots of sheep this evening.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 11:03 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 202443
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
I've made it out! And it's not the last or even penultimate day of the month! And the pub is warm!
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 48661
Re: What are you reading now?
Carefully scheduled to align with full moons and other celestial phenomena?
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:31 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1244061
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Oh, snap.
- Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:31 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1244061
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 10:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1244061
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
New Restrap offer, 40% off seatpacks for the next 3 days using code SECRETSADDLE
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 11:44 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1244061
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Restrap are offering 50% off their stem bags for the next 3 days using code SECRETSTEM
It's "exclusively for [their] newsletter audience", but may work even if you're not subscribed?
Looks like it'll expire at the end of the 15th.
It's "exclusively for [their] newsletter audience", but may work even if you're not subscribed?
Looks like it'll expire at the end of the 15th.
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:38 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Turkey Türkiye
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5273
Re: Turkey Türkiye
Not 100% sure which bits of Türkiye they've travelled, but if you're on Instagram, try @tmdub and @a__dyson
- Thu Nov 09, 2023 12:34 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1547
- Views: 269156
Re: What you done t' your bike today
Do the male parts of the bolts thread directly into the chainring?
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 10:29 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
The photo is the visitor's log at Nant Rhys, but yes I do take a little notebook. I find it nice to take a break and jot down notes, thoughts, wildlife sightings etc.
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 9:08 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
Thanks all, glad you like it.
It ended up about 80km/50 miles a day, with only the first day involving much riding in the dark.Sounds like a great trip at the ideal pace.
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 7:00 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
They were from Brum IIRC. More hippy than luvvy.
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:51 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
I took the steep and direct line up onto the Long Mynd. The stiff tailwind had me in two minds: grateful for its assistance as it pushed me up the steep slope, but also wary of the black clouds that were pursuing me on its currents. Along the top was gorgeous. The gliding club didn't seem to be flyi...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:51 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/369/482/097/666/229/original/20309ee5f57ad8ca.jpeg Day 4. A gentle blanket of cloud lay over the valleys, so no spectacular sunrise, but a pale glow stole gently across the landscape as I climbed up to the Kerry Ridgeway. It was as beautiful...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:50 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
Another oh-fuck hill or two, and some primo grav guided me into Clun, where I arrived to nightfall and welcoming lights shining from the windows of the White Horse Inn. Clun Brewery's Citadel ale is a cracker, but unfortunately its presence at the inn was not matched by the chef. I grabbed some past...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:50 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
The Elan Valley visitor centre made for a welcome second breakfast. Unable to choose between bacon and sausage, I simply opted for both. Warm and refuelled, I then had an easy roll along an old railway track to Rhayader. The road to Abbeycwmhir was closed for works. I proceeded in hope, but was turn...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:50 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
Day 3. I woke as the dawn light gently stole in through the window. Porridge, packing and pics were sorted, and I was on my way just after 9am. The track to Elan village was by turns smooth and rough, up and down, headwind and tailwind. After the previous day's climbs, my legs were leaden and recalc...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
It was hard work over the moors' deeply rutted, braided trails, trying to manage climbing, steering and avoiding pedal strike. But the terrain turned to gravel, and then tarmac again, and swoooooops! It had been a tough day; not huge distances, but plenty of climbing. I was excited and relieved when...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
Descending into Pont-rhyd-y-groes I disturbed a buzzard and a crow sharing some entrails. The rain seemed to be easing off, and I started to feel a bit more hopeful of seeing the Cambrian Golden Eagle. The Cwtch café is now long closed (another victim of COVID?), but just opposite was the Tea Hut, o...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14145
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
That feeling when you look across a valley at a steep and winding road and think, "I'm going up that," and then you're proven right. Sigh. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/368/765/987/379/301/original/3ba6c44a77ecb309.jpg I struggled upwards through the forest to N...