ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:17 pm
And has anyone spotted Jeff? I'm expecting him to blow these numbers away.

I think he's bivvied on top of a mountain in Wales somewhere

I'd say that was rubbish. 100g pole plus deschutes will be lighter, more internal space, better. My bike may bemoan my unsympathetic view to leaving it out in the rain but its made of metal, so will be fine, whereas I'm a softy and like my home comforts.

I've a tubus rear fat rack if of interest. Appreciate this isn't actually what you are wanting but just in case a rear rack is also of use, I got this one a few years ago and never used it.

I've passed through a few times but usually on either the roads or the gravel roads, of which their are a lot. Down the west side of Loch Eck is nice and if you were to go right down to the bottom, round by Strone (this is an A road but is very quiet) and up by Loch long, there is a nice trail from ...

Thats quite a lot of climbing for 150k....
The trails looked ace though!

https://i.ibb.co/YDsNGz0/20220107-134845.jpg They have cleaned up well enough although these pre-date Surly ED coating everything and using a nice thick powder coat so a few minor scratches and scrapes showing surface rust but nothing remotely of concern structurally. Inside the legs and steerer is...

Hard to say really. I've twice been in the depths of midgy season and not had any issues as its been breezy. Still weather is pretty rare out there so I'd not fret too much about it. That said April to early May would guarantee you to be midge free. I was once nearly blown of the Outer Hebrides in A...

Well done Dave and good luck. Have you considered crime as a way to pay the bills? Not petty stuff, I'm talking about major league safe cracking kind of thing - I'm sure its much easier than the banks would have us believe. I've finally reailsed after all these years that crime does pay and I wish I...

Berghaus Changste for me - a mix of paclite+ and active and to date have kept me totally dry in some horrible weather. As they are designed for walking the bottoms are a bit loose so could be an issue if you are running a triple... Wear at the bum is an issue as John says but having a good rear mudg...

4047m but that's for all 20. Picking one for each month leads to 3275m max and 2602m min
I did think of calculating height gained for every before and after bivvy ride but I'd need the promise of a badge to go that far

I was going to accept them but said just the frame. Think stu at work got them instead from you 😂 Hmm, I thought I'd sold them to you or the person who bought your PX frame's successor a few years ago, however apparently not as I've just found them in the loft! So I have here a pair of old style Su...

Alan, did I include a set of forks with that On one frame?? my memory fails me...

To be honest I was expecting Jeff aka summit toppler to get on this as well!
There are those wee horse shoe shaped rock shelters on the top of Macdui....hmmmm...

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 12:34 pm

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 12:32 pm * cough *

Nurse, LFT for Mr Routes please!

Well done Jose, some great trips there - I've added you to the list. I think the Cairngorm bivvy may score you a BAM altitude record!

I've tried a few things to keep the bar roll off the head tube as I use short stems. On the fat bike I used one of those cheapo carbon fiber accessory tube / bracket things to hang the roll off the handlebars below the light level. I had a short bit of plastic waste pipe between the carbon tube and ...

Stage 3 and 4. On stage 3 it's a bit above Glen Almond - the route climbs away from Loch Tay at Ardtalnaig and over the bealach into Glen Almond. It then climbs steeply away from the glen southwards and there is a k of peat hag and heather to link to the top of Glen Lednock - the sort of terrain you...

Some of it is really good but there are two horrendous hike a bike bits which would spoil it for many users. Some of the feedback is interesting.... Its also a mountainbike route, not a gravel bike route. If I were you I'd get its GPX file, get an OS map out and make a few mods to avoid the two bits...

Still awaiting reports by Boab and Charlie Cres. Unfortunately I fell at the final hurdle; two weeks of sinusitis after my November BaM, then COVID while still suffering the sinusitis, then antibiotics for COVID weaponised sinusitis. Given the grotty weather just after Christmas, I didn't want to g...

If I could be presumptuous and offer a bit of advice to those who are thinking of giving this a go, its worth identifying every free weekend you have every month and then targeting the first one. If the weather is a shocker or somat else crops up you can then fall back on subsequent weekends. If you...

Rev sweetroll for a good few years now (on my second.) Pretty stable but you need to re-tension the straps from time to time. Mounting them on a Jones truss fork helps. Those who are members of that exclusive club will know what I mean :wink: On my dropper I've used an old pika and a terrapin which ...

Bear in mind a lot of the on line sites and Apps are only using the global model, Metcheck included. Met Office do there own processing of the global model, Beeb buy their weather data from meteo who have their own model. Interesting note, weather forecasting modelling companies use warehouses full ...

Well the BAM thread last year rapidly turned into 'Carry on Bivving' (largely thanks to Reg it must be said, although others were quick to jump aboard) so gawd knows how it will pan out this year....

Happy New Year all, looking forward to getting out an about as usual and reading about all of your tales of getting out an about

Right then, final tally for 2021.... All 12 months, January to December was completed by (in no particular order):- Sean_iow Redefined C jimmy G RIP Shutuplegs Frog FBP (me) Scotroutes Bearlegged Raggedstone Alan63 (and son) Jose McTavish Still awaiting reports by Boab and Charlie Cres. Near Miss of...

I'm in as usual, got a few areas of my bivvying style I need to work on and plenty of ideas for locations