Here is a link to the route on RidewithGPS: NEW LINK FURTHER UP THREAD. This version of the route superseded. Hope that works. Feel free to PM me an email address to send the GPX if you want the route that way. RidewithGPS looks to have downgraded the elevation to only :roll: 4300m ish. When I worke...

This will primarily be a BB200 shakedown so I’ll be looking to push pretty long into the night and do a good chunk of the 200km prior to sleeping. :???: surely "a bb200 shakedown" leaves the camping gear in the car? :lol: Tut, tut. You’re supposed to carry shelter and a sleeping bag on th...

Nice one. I’m glad to see there’s still some interest in this. I should have been riding the route as an overnighter this weekend but I’ve been pretty sick so haven’t managed to get out. That means I’ll probably up for stopping and sleeping rather than pushing through. This will primarily be a BB200...

Fair point.
The map scale/zoom is adjustable on n30 series Edge computers so in theory you can see as much or as little as you want.
IME it’s still nowhere near as good as a paper map for charging route on the fly.

Reg I thought I could rely on you as a staunch traditionalist! Mmm, sorry chap :smile: . I'm sort of a traditional modernist or maybe a modern traditionalist. Like a Fred Dibnah / Elon Musk jekyll and hyde :???: . Does that you mean that you climb cooling towers whilst Tweeting sub standard about c...

A further point would be that it depends on the map you have loaded onto the device. I don’t use OS on my Edge or Etrex because i find it way too busy on such a small screen. As I usually have a Route loaded rather than a Track I find the cheap Garmin osm based naps perfectly adequate both for both ...

However a number of routes are springing up with the Divide tag which don't seem to follow this requirement. They should really call them "Diagonals" instead of Divides. It's an established concept here in France (joining the corners of the hexagone) where they already have their own orga...

I’m waiting to see one draped over the bonnet of a Ford Capri

It’s a bit of an aggressive move by the NT, but they’re only stating the (mostly) truth. It has to be remembered that the NT is a conservative organisation whose interest lies in protecting its estate for its membership and ultimately us all. I remember them being pretty anti MTB in the 90’s and act...

ledburner, got 3500 miles on my rohloff since i bought it in december. running as sweet as a nut. 7th gear feel a slight bit different from the rest, but that is all. bloody love the thing so far. @Ton + @pistonbroke, thanks for the feed back. I guess it my brother in law fault he just grumbled a b...

As per title I’m looking for: 1 or 2 Thermarest chair kits. Of the old school variety to work with a Thermarest Prolite or the even older rectangular “self-inflating” mattresses. 1 foam filled Thermarest pillow. Not enough of these items is causing friction with the kids on family camp outs :roll: I...

The whole reliance on gadgets is a two edged sword isn’t it. I don’t have too much of an issue with it personally though. My watch is analogue and creates its own power through Eco Drive. My Garmin 530 sits atop of a Garmin power pack and gets a good 30+ hours run time. On longer jaunts I plug it in...

Surly Krampus/Rohloff in its natural environment on Dartmoor. https://share.icloud.com/photos/05Y7thjsm2SFhcYQFbHwtGxRw#Yelverton_-_Princetown And Salsa Fargo/Rohloff at Exeter station https://share.icloud.com/photos/0QjMgxsC-NzzJpWgpRII1dwNw#University_of_Exeter If you can be bothered to hit the li...

Use the right size insert in the original hooks and also use the addition rubber bungee hook that attaches to the ladder buckle in the middle of the back and they rattle hardly at all IME.

I just did a 5 day trip using an Osprey Seral with a 1.5l bladder and didn’t like it at all. With the water and bits and bobs it was too heavy and too uncomfortable. Not a winner at all. I’ll need to think again for water carrying and go back to just carrying bits and bibs in my Talon pack and use t...

Having just rode >100km on 3 different canals over the course of a 600km trip my advice would be to choose carefully. I’ve had a mix of wide, smooth towpaths, hugely overgrown towpaths and really awful surfaces. On some sections of the Kennet & Avon it was so overgrown that I was soaked wet thro...

I’m also going to claim to have ridden into a bat whilst using an Edelux. It’s definitely a thing.

I personally find OS mapping on small screen GPS units too busy despite loving the paper maps. For my Garmin I use the simpler OSM based maps and find them more than adequate for follow a crumb trail on trips such as BB200. In addition I’ll have offline OS 1:25,000 for the relevant area in my phone ...

This used to happen when you could make a bike reservation online whilst buying a ticket, which you haven't been able to do for the last few years, presumably because the technology to do so has been un-invented. ScotRail still use that technology. :lol: I had a nice surprise recently and found to ...

Fair enough. You’d be looking at 20 hours at least from London to Ullapool in that case.
In that time you can get the train from Exeter to the Dolomites - all be it for a considerable sum of money.

Unless you box your bike coach providers won’t take them as luggage. This isn't true. I recently got our bikes on a coach by wrapping them in plastic sheeting, a friend then got away with bubble wrap on her bike. Someone on here since shared a link showing that coach operators will take a bike if i...

Tell the train staff where you want to get off.Sometimes a bit nervewracking waiting for them to come down the platform to open the door for you from the outside :smile: I did once have to pull the alarm on the train in order to get off at Oxenholme. No one arrived to let me off and the train start...

Unless you box your bike coach providers won’t take them as luggage. The only way is by train * Whilst far from ideal taking your bike on the train isn’t too bad. Provided that you book ahead for a seat and bike reservation the hassle is limited. Know your route and read up about where bikes go on t...

If you can get hold of a copy of Singletrack issue 135, there's an article by Markus Stitz about bikepacking the route of the iron curtain. Is that the Grezstein trophy route on the tank tracks? I heard it was like 100s of miles of rumble strip :grin: Not sure what Stitz did but the Iron Curtain Cy...

Verena wrote: ↑Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:08 pm Bavaria has lots of funny place names, such as Bad Fussing, Bad Kissing, Titmoningen, Petting, etc etc

Enjoy!

When I lived in Germany, I had a flat in the village of Coch for a while