O yes, it's quite an experience on the Eppynt at night, bit spooky
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- Thu Oct 08, 2020 9:11 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: My BB200 2020 (may contain spoilers).
- Replies: 181
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- Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Garmin etrex 30x
- Replies: 2
- Views: 270
Re: Garmin etrex 30x
Dropped mine once too many times, so it stopped working back in the summer (now have a new one, learned my lesson and use a lanyard..). If any of you clever people can do anything useful with the old one, give me a shout, I wouldn't know where to start.... Sorry, perhaps didn't make that very clear...
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:14 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Garmin etrex 30x
- Replies: 2
- Views: 270
Garmin etrex 30x
Dropped mine once too many times, so it stopped working back in the summer (now have a new one, learned my lesson and use a lanyard..).
If any of you clever people can do anything useful with the old one, give me a shout, I wouldn't know where to start....
If any of you clever people can do anything useful with the old one, give me a shout, I wouldn't know where to start....
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 7:11 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2020
- Replies: 853
- Views: 69677
Re: BB200 2020
So I have a plan of sorts. Start from Brecon, that's a no brainer for me as I can ride to the track in twenty minutes or so. I've done some maths and to finish in 36 hours, if I ride from 7am till 11pm and then 7 to 7 the next, I would need to average 7km/h... I'd get to Hay just as everything is cl...
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2020
- Replies: 853
- Views: 69677
Re: BB200 2020
If I have enough dry weather to finish the job I am doing at the moment I hope to set off towards the end of next week from Builth Wells early morning in the wildly optimistic hope that I might get to Crickhowell for late food . I know most of the route after the much discussed track/river to beyon...
- Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:39 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: My BB200 2020 (may contain spoilers).
- Replies: 181
- Views: 21187
Re: My BB200 2020 (may contain spoilers).
Wow, good effort!! Safe journey home and hope you warm up soon!!
- Sun Oct 04, 2020 7:15 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2020
- Replies: 853
- Views: 69677
Re: BB200 2020
There's a kebab shop, also Burger King, and the petrol station/coop, but not sure what time they close.
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2020
- Replies: 853
- Views: 69677
Re: BB200 2020
I bloody hope so. These pictures were nearly enough to put me off...JohnClimber wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:38 pmRather than being in the field isn't the Bridleway down to the side of these fences, just in sight in the photos?
And shown here
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/571691
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 1:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2020
- Replies: 853
- Views: 69677
Re: BB200 2020
Some of the comments below the video made me smile - quite obviously a few were written by people who've never ridden (a) in Wales (b) off-road (c) a BB200 :wink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v22jgUflcXU&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1jKFSURKuR2oeHzbEMsq6KU-JhdIZJ0loh-YREDE52ieQGVrFQi0dv-Y...
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:04 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How Ethical is Aldi Merino...?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2751
Re: How Ethical is Aldi Merino...?
I've got some, they are nice, not at all itchy, or scratchyJohnClimber wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 4:46 pm Bought some several years ago and had to take them back
I can't beli2how itchy they were.
I've no idea is the new ones are as bad.
Anyone tried them on as yet?
- Sat Oct 03, 2020 7:52 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2020
- Replies: 853
- Views: 69677
Re: BB200 2020
Hi, I'm planning on attempting this on 22nd/23rd or thereabouts, hoping for reasonable weather and a bit of a moon maybe... Starting from Brecon, as the route practically passes my doorstep-ish....which of course means the gap right at the end, but somehow I doubt I'll make it that far.... John, I u...
- Sat Aug 29, 2020 5:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13734
Re: WRT
Fecks sake, have just written a nice little something, then tried to attach a photo and lost the whole thing. Sorry not writing all that again. Just wondering how many of us there are? And wanted to say hope you're all having a great time.
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13734
Re: WRT
[/quote] Mike and I will be doing the same on a Fat Bike beach route ride, popping in at BB towers on the Bank Holiday Monday morning Nice short chilled out days at around 35 miles, 40 miles and 11 miles to finish For once we'll be passing by 3 grid refs too [/quote] That sounds quite similar to my ...
- Mon Aug 17, 2020 8:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13734
Re: WRT
Called into the Star last night and the good news is that you'll all be very welcome over the Bank holiday weekend, there will be food and drink and you don't have to book. They'll be open all day, each day. :-bd Sounds good, I'm thinking of trying to go there for breakfast on Monday, before headin...
- Sat Aug 15, 2020 8:18 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bear bones anthem
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3327
- Sat Aug 15, 2020 8:13 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bear bones anthem
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3327
Re: Bear bones anthem
"The Climb" Miley Cyrus, but of a jump from half man half biscuit Except it is very much about what lies on the other side....
- Tue Aug 11, 2020 11:17 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: A Lost Lanes, TINAT-revisit meander through Wales, South to North and South again
- Replies: 30
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Re: A Lost Lanes, TINAT-revisit meander through Wales, South to North and South again
Thanks, great write up, sounds amazing
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 6:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3998
- Views: 524944
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
O wow, gorgeous, love those
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 6:20 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What does the word "Bikepacking" mean to you?
- Replies: 38
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Re: What does the word "Bikepacking" mean to you?
The song "running to.the hills" by Dan Owen kind of describes it nicely for me. Obvs cycling instead of running.
- Fri Aug 07, 2020 6:34 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3998
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Cheery Friday and posts about dogs, that's quite fitting....not feeling quite so cheery right now after not much sleep, in the garage on a sofa that's too short...almost like bikepacking .....daughter found a stray limping sheepdog on way home from work last night, so we brought him home. He started...
- Thu Aug 06, 2020 6:52 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD - Lightweight Stove Solutions
- Replies: 53
- Views: 5086
Re: WTD - Lightweight Stove Solutions
I thought I'd see what the Army's Fire Dragon stove was like. They're cheap as chips, small and lightweight. The fuel blocks are some smokeless bio fuel that you can use to clean your hands too. Overall it worked well, but the blocks were expensive and individually plastic packed so I won't be usin...
- Sat May 23, 2020 12:11 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 142277
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
May... I've been very disciplined up until now, but with all that gorgeous weather and some signs of lockdown slowly easing, I could resist no longer... Just 7 miles from home, lovely little ride with a nice bit of climbing, one of my favourite straights across the common, and the night spent in a f...
- Sat May 23, 2020 7:20 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Looking ahead - what are you looking forward to?
- Replies: 101
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Re: Looking ahead - what are you looking forward to?
To be honest, I've been really enjoying staying local but getting out probably more often than I would have with more distractions around.... Have cobbled together a bikepacking route round Mid, West and South Wa!es, hoping to do that one week in the summer if and when we're allowed. Then hoping to ...
- Thu May 14, 2020 9:06 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: WhereYouAre Ride Thing 2020
- Replies: 100
- Views: 17957
Re: WhereYouAre Ride Thing 2020
Great to read all of your mini adventures, sadly I came across all of this too late otherwise I’d have loved to have taken part. Same here! Meanwhile I've been hatching a plan for a little adventure of my own, to replace my holiday on Anglesey first week of June, which I can't see happening.... Wit...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 7:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: I Don't Know What They're Saying But
- Replies: 6
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Re: I Don't Know What They're Saying But
Hilarious. The cheesy song goes something like "I love riding my bike, repeat, repeat, when those other idiots are stuck at the red lights, I'm free to ride on and they can kiss my arse, etc etc" . Setting a fine example.... Then brief glimpse of absolute legend Rudi Altig, my dad told me ...