I did Ben Nevis once on a Saturday, rammed with three-peakers. Carried to the top and bottom, oh how I laughed all the way. But sat here I'm strangely glad I did do it as I can claim my place in the top 1% of fecking idiots of all time.

Mine's here. Nice snug fit so no pies for me over winter.Looks ace!

I'm in.

As for the instructions I burnt 1/3 of mine reading them after trying to light the 22g stove without a proper read :-0

Are you still planning to supply the whole caboodle stu, stove, wires and windshield?

Great shout, Bristol tickets booked

The irony is .. I have a helmet cam, it's never made it out of the box.

Ok, you know what to expect. Seriously dodgy hand held camera work, amateur editing, dated music, swearing. Here is my video diary from the Shindig event kindly organised by zigrat. Write up to follow when I get a little more time. https://vimeo.com/106395266 Thanks to all who rode with me and made ...

Main advantages of compact over phone for me are:- a) I can carry spare batteries and not have to fanny about with charging pack mid ride b) spare SD cards so endless capacity c) no fannying about with lock screens d) proper zoom, not optical e) works fine in gloves f) can't be interrupted by my dau...

I use a Canon S110 because I love the stills it produces and cannot be arsed with camera/bar mounting. My style of filming is exceedingly dangerous and not to be recommended as one handed riding often has its consequences. I find it so simple though to hoik the camera out of a strap mounted holster ...

It was an ace event, top top marks to Bryan for organising it and everyone else for just being fab. The northern loop worked for me as I was in a bit of a rush to get home the NCN section on the West was not exactly gnarl to the max. This was made up for after Aberfoyle on the way back to Milngavie,...

What food options (if any) are there on the northern loop for Sunday.. or should I just stock up to the max at Aberfoyle.

That's a damn fine idea and I wish I'd have thought of it. I'll think of you as I drive past Friday night, flash a beacon toward Shap if you want picking up ;-)

Almost definitely will not work on anything but a Garmin device or map s/w. The ioffer SD cards have the maps in Garmin IMG format which is proprietary and looks like a mini-filesystem. You'll have to reverse engineer this into whatever Viewranger uses which I think is a tile cache of lots of map ti...

Excellent blog and excellent effort, well done!

Good point on solid rock, I'm driving up from Swindon Friday PM. Anyone want a lift? If you are not too far from M5/M6 I can offer a decent punk rock/new wave motorway soundtrack and a bunk in a motorhome that is currently slightly leaky.

Isn't bikepacking ace precisely because the lifestyles we lead are so far from it? The bloke's video just underlines that for me, but if I did what he does full time, I'd escape by putting on a shirt and tie or something.

Excellent vid but the rant is sub-standard with a distinct lack of pointing and toys only being shown the view from the pram rather than full on ejection.

I'll be there for 2pm, will I be Ok ditching the motorhome for a night in the vicinity?

Can't see how he does it legally for £20? I know as we have a contract with OS. However, I'm not one to complain as they appear to work well ;-)

I smashed up my CX bike in a Belgium woods near Spa but said "hello" to a couple of Flemish bike packers so all is well.

I have to drive to Spa in Belgium as I bought my wife Grand Prix tickets for her birthday. Bike is going as well hopefully I'll find something to do.

It's not just the biking, think of the pies

I'm in.

She clearly hadn't used much moisturiser

Dont think ill be riding this route in a hurry dave!

Porter or Gove then?