What, like WRT grid refs.?
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- Thu Apr 20, 2023 8:02 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Viz top tip
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1705
Re: Viz top tip
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 3:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Viz top tip
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1705
Re: Viz top tip
... perhaps the NP could have put the rebranding budget to better use such as enforcing the crap parking by visitors at Storey Arms? Have you been up there recently? :wink: The National Trust are building a new car park and toilet facilities at Pont ar Daf just next to Storey Arms Centre with about...
- Wed Apr 19, 2023 5:19 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Viz top tip
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1705
Re: Viz top tip
What were they saying back in the 70s? ' Come home to a real fire, buy a cottage in Wales ' :shock: (Sorry, for the younger ones, there was a spate of English holiday homes in Wales being set fire to by Welsh nationalists back then). Still, if the majority follow Viz's advice then the hills around B...
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 10:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy birthday to our great leader!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1220
Re: Happy birthday to our great leader!
Happy birthday Stu, hope it was suitably quiet and peaceful!
You may be a couple of years too late Phil
- Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:20 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The future of insulation ?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1209
Re: The future of insulation ?
Well, as Phil McCrevis gets a mention in the first sentence it could only go one way after that...
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 6:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sleeping pad recommendations
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1497
Re: Sleeping pad recommendations
Thermarest user here, with sleeping bag not quilt. Never noticed the crisp packet noise that others refer to but then I usually drop off quickly and apparently snore so maybe others would be the best judge of how noisy my mat might be :grin: I have never heard your sleeping mat :smile: :lol: :lol: ...
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sleeping pad recommendations
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1497
Re: Sleeping pad recommendations
Thermarest user here, with sleeping bag not quilt. Never noticed the crisp packet noise that others refer to but then I usually drop off quickly and apparently snore so maybe others would be the best judge of how noisy my mat might be
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:09 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT 2023 Sold Out?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1265
Re: WRT 2023 Sold Out?
Is that a first for the WRT Stu? Big entry or managing infrastructure!?
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:47 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Route ethics
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1091
Re: Route ethics
Ha ha! I wasn't thinking that bloody recently
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:46 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Route ethics
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1091
Re: Route ethics
The corollary to the question you pose is that someone might be cheeky at a later date and put my freely shared route in a book or a paid for app but I'll never see anything for it. Didn't Dave B recently comment that someone had copied word for word a route from one of his books and publish it wit...
- Sat Mar 11, 2023 10:42 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Route ethics
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1091
Re: Route ethics
I take the view that every route already exists, it just requires someone to join the dots, although doing so doesn't give you any ownership over it (but it is nice if credit is given where it's due). Fully agree with Stu. If someone sells a gpx they're not selling the route, they're selling the ti...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 10:44 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: That stupid idea I mentioned ...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1793
Re: That stupid idea I mentioned ...
That seat tube looks a very small diameter...
Inspired by the recent chat about Jeff Jones' creations?
Inspired by the recent chat about Jeff Jones' creations?
- Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: XXL Bivi Bags without a taper
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1458
Re: XXL Bivi Bags without a taper
The obvious one John would be the Sierra Designs Backcountry 3000 https://ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/backcountry-bivy-3000/#Specifications . I have the 'long' and it is a roomy bag for my 6ft 16 stone bulk with air mattress inside. Usual waterproof / breathable compromise, it's waterproof when full...
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 12:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
- Replies: 88
- Views: 5505
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 11:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
- Replies: 88
- Views: 5505
Re: End of an era - perhaps.
Interesting situation. As you say, a Planning Application will be necessary and there could be several reasons for objecting on planning grounds including access issues along with some others mentioned above. If there are sufficient numbers of objectors it may be worth considering employing a Planni...
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:54 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183163
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Or 3. After all the alcohol consumed the previous night they didn't actual realise they were in a marquee until the next morning?
- Thu Mar 02, 2023 10:40 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183163
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Nice write up NeilA :-bd I'm particularly liking the Launderette service available, I can certainly see the benefits of that during certain rides. Reg is too humble, I have witnessed him spending the night in a very similar pub marquee; a night of torrential rain I might add. No astro-turf, just tar...
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 6:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Nighttime riding, fear and loathing.
- Replies: 96
- Views: 48961
Re: Nighttime riding, fear and loathing.
That's a great ride V, well done :-bd There are some good bridleways between Crickhowell and Stanton too but they're well used by pony trekkers, the lanes are definitely easier going! Hope the wrong turn and unnecessary hill wasn't towards Patrishaw church :shock: No bogey men, no axe murderers, no ...
- Mon Feb 27, 2023 12:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Trousers for wearing post cycling on bikepacking
- Replies: 40
- Views: 2492
Re: Trousers for wearing post cycling on bikepacking
It's no effort to carry a tie for dinner; they are minimal weight and certainly meet the 'multi-uses' TLS bike packing mantra. Have some class
- Sun Feb 26, 2023 3:30 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Winter Bivvy, South Wales installment
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1565
Re: Winter Bivvy, South Wales installment
That is pretty much exactly where we were isn't it! Imagine experiencing something like that while cocooned in a bivvy bag
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 8:02 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183163
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Cafe in Cwmdu was shut?? I'd only recently rediscovered it and decided to make it more part of my regular haunts... :sad: Unfortunately yes. Apparently the long road closure a little while back and an upcoming rent increase meant they had to close. But... they have opened up again in Talgarth so I ...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 10:09 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Stolen Goat buy Wildcat
- Replies: 68
- Views: 4877
Re: Stolen Goat buy Wildcat
Same here, Wildcat were my first bikepacking specific bags
I also found great inspiration from Ian's Middle Ring all the Way blog and films
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:16 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: No Sheep 'Til Buxton
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2013
Re: No Sheep 'Til Buxton
Well, it looks like I missed a fun ride gently rolling along canal sides and disused railway lines, pausing at cafes and hostelries to partake of refreshments, and comfortable repose at exclusive chambers
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 4:20 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183163
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
February BAM started on Saturday afternoon in Crickhowell. The forecast for cloudy but dry weather with a gentle breeze proved accurate as I set off up into the Black Mountains past The Hermitage and up the track into the hills. I had a couple of bivvy spots in mind but was becoming wary of the ever...
- Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:52 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Route archive.
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1747