And if you win you must use your Instagram account (and all the new followers you'll have) to promote flying all over the world and riding :wink: And if I win, I'll bore all of you lot to death banging on about it (spoiler alert, I won't win) *sigh* My enthusiasm for this event is exponentially nos...

Bothy water supplies tend to be created (or signed) by the MBA and will generally be the best available. I'm always a little dubious given the tendency of people to ignore the toilet advice around bothies so for cold drinking water will always either filter or find a remote source on the way in that...

*sigh* My enthusiasm for this event is exponentially nosediving back to what it was when it was a stage race and you had to carry all your plastic litter with you...
I bet I don't get an entry in any case!

Sections that are "cheeky" I've the current route GPX and I didn't see anything that wasn't legal - will be looking closely at the route if I get that far! And its £125 plus tracker hire and registration what exactly are you getting, in a self supported ITT, that warrants that? Good quest...

We'll see - the entry questionnaire still required you to have an instagram account, even though it doesn't get used for tracking. So I just put a gobbildigook name in and I think I got some of the questions wrong...

And its £125 plus tracker hire and registration....

https://www.theracingcollective.com/gbduro.html
Back to single stage / usual rules. I've put a NOI in so we'll see.

Got it on Basecamp now after a bit of computer threatening.
Looking good to me - just 'ground proofed' some of the detail locally (I know it's relying on OSM) and looks good. Will try the other version as well
Cheers again Dave cue ditching OS subscription...

https://www.ternbicycles.com/en/bikes/471/orox I've not really had much interest in e bikes to date but this looks good - the perfect shopping bike :grin: And some interesting developments in terms of rim sand tryes, given that fatbikes seem to be getting dropped by everyone else just now. Surly ex...

I've been eyeing up the routes from Dornie area up to Loch Monar and Iron Lodge for yonks - the paths appear reasonably well defined on aerials but this is good intel on what they are actually like. I suspect doing them when dry would be beneficial though.... Anyway You could do a good day loop from...

Yousers, at least you got home on it...
Is that a Novatec hub?

I recall the Surly bikes vid where they had a Pugsley on log rollers!
Maybe you can cable tie some tussocks to them Bob, and arrange for an assistant to throw buckets of icy water at you as you ride

a looser interpretation of the rules is permitted. I'm blowing it out of the water with a complete disregard to the 'paid accomodation' rule. The 5 quid campsite on Jennride was probably the trickiest camp I've had to date so it's included in my tally, even if it's excluded from the bureaucratic on...

Thought you'd like that Reg, I'm so immersed in bureaucracy at work at the mo, it's spilling into my personal life.....

I think it's reasonable to allow everyone one slightly iffy bivvy a year, whereby a looser interpretation of the rules is permitted. If you intend to have a slightly iffy bivvy, please write (in writing) to the BAM adjudicator, CO BB towers, Wales; at least 6 months in advance of said iffy bivvy. Do...

Bit of a clean up needed there!
Has the axle actually snapped?

February done (and NOT at the last minute!) on the AWE - see https://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpB ... hp?t=24332
Top spot in Glendevon Forest that I've been meaning to stop at for a while, but it needs the wind to be from the east....



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Dave Barter wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:12 pm To open on a desktop you need Garmin Basecamp installed. Then copy the gmapsupp.img file to a directory called Garmin on a USB stick or SD card. Basecamp will then open the map automatically

You may, or may not, have picked up that Shaff aka Redefined Cycles kindly organised an alternative winter event for those of us unable to make the real one. As per last year (and the pandemic edition) you get paired up with somebody, send them a handful of grid references in their local area, get s...

Good work Dave, well done. First idiot question - is there a way of opening a .img file on a desktop? Or is it GPS only?

Done. Will put some words together on the 'Your Trips and Adventures' page at some point, but in summary, lots of mud, lots of hills!

Live bivvy in progress- after a long day doing some very big climbs. 5 grs down, 5 to go. And its dry! Dry I tell you!!

Cheery here, another cheeky day off work and about to pack up and head out to bag some Grid references on Shaff's alternative winter event. Currently sunny and quite mild...

If you were to be picky, you'd want a hub that was very precisely machined to ensure all the bearings are in perfect alignment so they last the longest. But it's nigh on impossible to know if you are buying a hub that does or doesn't achieve this. I've used Hopes for years, right back to the origina...

:-bd It's funny isn't it - everytime I speak to normal people about their holidays, they mostly talk about the flights - how easy / how much hassle / how cheap / expensive, how much bouncing the aircraft did when it landed; followed by "Oh and the beach was nice". I have a massively stress...

boxelder wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:36 pm

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:40 pm Glad to hear. I wonder where up here?

Galloway and the Borders have a long history of rally sport - I'm guessing near Craic/Eskdalemuir?

Nah, too near the Tibetan Monastery (= peace and tranquility)
Probably one of the more obscure forests out by Dalmelington