RIP wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 8:43 am

Mart wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 7:56 am Oh I’m recognising loads of the pictures.
I’ve a long association with Nairn

Big fan of their cheese oatcakes myself. Getting quite pricey now though.

Erm.

Made in Embra
I'm a Stockans man myself though

Likewise got some of those terravail tyres form Lyon (ordered yesterday morning, arrived today) 700x47 washburns. Despite being 'light and supple' they are in fact quite chunky and 700gs. However if this means no more effing, flaming punctures I'll be a happy man.

I did a fine ride around the Trossachs (again), picking up a couple of new trails along the way. The first I'd picked up from the 'Ten Peaks Trail' that Bikepacking put out last year - a riverside path of varying standards from Doune to Callander that provided a nice alternative to the back road rou...

For sale: Tents, tarps, quilts, mats, stoves, pots, meths, plus associated paraphernalia. Wanted, credit card that someone else picks up the tab for..... :grin: Joking apart, doing a B&B / hotel based hol in Scotland would cost a fortune, particularly when you factor in artisan cups of coffee, h...

I did one of my usual jaunts round the Trossachs yesterday and intercepted the Badger route at a few points - I passed 8 people doing it, but they all seemed suspiciously lightly loaded - could be super TLS I 'spose but probably doing it using digs, I suspect. Which is fine of course, but is it bike...

Just get off and push Shaff. You are still making progress but giving contact points and legs a rest. Moving slow is better than not moving at all!

[urlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwI9O9fiNwM][/url] Akhlys. Pretty much perfection to these old ears. This interrupted my listening of Napalm Death's "Throws of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism" which is pretty damn good. "The Code is Red, Long Live the Code" has actually become ...

Yeah, the Komoot route does a short off-road after Blair Atholl where you past an old bungalow, maybe into a hiking trail but just seems to go nowhere, gives nothing apart from wet feet and then brings you back onto the road again. Another one occurs before the Loch Insch area. Takes you off-road o...

gecko76 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 06, 2024 7:49 pm

Errrr - could head up to Carrbridge then do NCN7 north on the 'off road route' (dead end back road west out of Carrbridge) then down to Sluggan bridge which is a cracking spot.

Maybe I should've checked on here prior to leaving. I just assumed the the Komoot version was THE version. I'd be interested in that version for next time. phil - is your loop the same as that on the Cairngorms loop.net? In the route I cycled, an off-road section from Loch Morlich to An Lochan Uain...

I've got a gpx of the 'classic' outer loop tour, which goes from Glen Tromie through the Baden and Inshriach and takes in Loch an Eilean. Drop me a pm

https://philsbikepacking.blogspot.com/2 ... y-bam.html

Cheers all Great stuff Phil I rember years ago riding from friends place in Buckie to Spey Bay and then on to Boat of Garten but cant remember how is it possible to follow the river The Speyside way does just that, more or less, but the section between Tormore distillery and Cromdale is horrible in ...

Depends which bikeshop you go to. Cycle2Work seem to be getting some bad press about fees at the mo. I'd rather do a cash deal! On reflection I can't justify the best part of £5k on a bike that will have limited use - the ICT does 80% of what it could do, in terms of whats available round here. But ...

Hah just got directed to Ison by a chap on the bikepacking article comments!
£4.7k is probably fair do's with the custom rims and tyres and gearbox...but...
Ouch.
Still want one though

Well, I'm definitely a bikepacker!
I've kipped under a tarp,
pushed through tussocks and bogs
drank out of a puddle
got lost
carry minimal stuff
done the BB300
wear frilly knickers under me baggies....
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I'll get me coat.....

I want one. But almost certainly will not be available in the UK.... *sigh* Moonlander or the Beargrease? I like the look of the Beargrease but if I wanted a backcountry fat bike I'd go for the Moonlander. Maybe not the 6.2 tyres though. Then again the floatation would be something else :lol: Moony...

I want one. But almost certainly will not be available in the UK....

*sigh*

I'm following this with interest - first BB'er into orbit?

Got to love a pulse jet

More beach bivvies - they are worth pursuing if you have easy access to the sea!

Sorry to here your oot Judith, you can rejoin this month or next and just keep going if you want to keep the momentum going into next year

I've already got 2 orange badges... if I had 3 it would start to look a bit greedy so I'd better not ride any more BB300s :grin: For clarification, the process is easy to understand... the execution requires a bit more effort. As I think I said earlier on in the thread, the 2018 BB300 is the hardes...

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 12:14 pm

sean_iow wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2024 10:59 am easy

Quoted for posterity.

For that word, Sean has to ride last years 300 before he can enter this years!

Is that lookout tower in Culbin Forest? How did Mike and myself not spot it :???: It's not easy - I stumbled across it a few years ago just by following a well made path from the main car park. It's marked on the orientation map at the car park but nowhere else. It's right next to the trig point in...

I managed to 'lose' my phone the other day - wandered into the Nethy Bridge shop, helped myself from the hot food counter, put my phone in it's case with my cash and card down next to the counter with my brain disengaged, wandered round the rest of the shop and went to pay, only to find...no phone. ...