Well that was a bit of a weekend. Plan I had was to turn right after Llan up the 'back side' of Foel Fadian and then head south towards Rhayader ticking off Stuart's grid references. When I had issues pushing my bike up the road behind Fadian I thought I better have a rethink. Decended towards Stayl...

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:03 pm Who's heading to The Star tonight?

Should be there 9-9.30 depending if I stop for chish and fips on the way.

Testing, testing

middleagedmadness wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:56 pm Looks like it’s gonna be a mad race for some to either Rhys or syddion (hope you like getting cosy if your heading to rhys

Either of them is my plan B. Plan A is a bit further south.

RIP wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:20 pm Nope. But I saw the 50mph winds one

The call of the bothy is getting quite strong.

Supernova rear light fitted to the Longitude today. Came with a seatpost clamp which would be fine and dandy if I was not using a seatpack. Hidden by the back guard if placed at the bottom of the post. Moved it to one of the seatstays and used an alternative shorter o'ring to fasten it on along with...

Escape Goat wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:25 am I'll be at the Star on the night. My main problem is matching faces to names on here

Know where you are coming from.

I'll just leave this here.

https://www.cyclinguk.org/news/are-you- ... -challenge

Route calculated so that a pub is within reasonable cycling distance from my proposed bivy spot or is that the other way round !

Breakfast booked at the Star at Dylife. Anyone else kipping in the car park on the Friday night ?

Glad to see a few more people apart from me using kilometres. Always seems right, as you go faster and further with them :grin: Had a bit of a bad year in 2017, so 2018 I was mainly in recovery mode trying to get back near normal. 4223 km riding, 66858 metres of up is what I recorded on Strava, howe...

Mrs G is doing a degree on environmental stuff and I think between us we've spawned a Derbyshire version of Greta Thunberg, so as you can imagine conversation in our household sometimes heads onto consumerism. Other point to bear in mind is if you go to a smaller 'cottage' industry where stuff is ma...

Dyffers wrote: ↑Thu Dec 26, 2019 9:59 pm IMG_20191221_140549-04.jpeg

That's nice. Is that a Reynolds tubing sticker I spy ?

Migraine from listening to the in-laws. Humbug !

Busy putting crosses on maps whilst I've got the house to myself as the family are out shopping.

Looks a good route. Looking forward to it.

Wondering if anyone's ever done a Bothy a Month ? Different one each month - no repetition allowed.

Bet that would be fun off road. Looks like one of those products that's only used once before going on eBay.

'Montage.. cantis...biopace.. 18 thumbshifteds....' 'much better kit later..'. Nah! My 1985 Dawes Cougar was exactly the same kit (probably the only stuff available!) and I loved it and still do, but then I am a pervert :smile: . My lad still has it, complete with original biopace and shifters - mo...

Stumbled across this on the interweb https://bikepacking.com/news/cranktank4/ Interesting idea, and get it if you are going somewhere that's a tad less wet than the UK and has less cafe's / pubs / refill opportunities. But that's 4 kg of ballast on your bike when it's full. I normally 'survive' on c...

The humble Raleigh Montage. First MTB or ATB as they were called in 1986. sub standard components - canti brakes that hardly stopped, biopace chainset and 18 thumb shifting gears. However went winter bikepacking in the Cairngorms on it which consisted of a MoFo rucksack full of climbing / camping ge...

Mudhugger 29er rear guard for a Longitude that I've been building up over the past few months. Just need to hope I've been a good lad and Santa brings me a Supernova rear light.

Got a big year planned for 2020 as I had a couple of health related issues which set me back this year so I've got some catching up to do. On the definite list is the Winter Event, Dirty Reiver, WRT and YD300. Also got a plan to ride to the south coast as the wife's got family down there. Plus 'if' ...

Well BB200 made this list Stuart, if that's any consolation. https://advntr.cc/events?fbclid=IwAR21a ... 3tdNr67_rs

Many happy returns. I hope you had a good one and were pampered appropriately.

Import a lot of stuff from outside of the EU. You'll probably get hit for the VAT + customs processing charge based on the declaration on the outside of the box and the exchange rate that day. Parcelfarce seem to have sharpened up on this over the past year or so. Used to be 50/50 on whether they wo...

After some new Winter gloves. After putting a tweet out someone recommended these. Currently an extra 15% off if you use the discount code.

https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/extre ... colour=124