flyingpig wrote: ↑Thu Oct 08, 2020 6:54 am
Pretty spectacular army playing war up there above Sennybridge, flares, machine gun fire with tracers and vehicles flying around!

O yes, it's quite an experience on the Eppynt at night, bit spooky

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...

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....

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...

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...

Wow, good effort!! Safe journey home and hope you warm up soon!!

Richard G wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 11:58 pm Unrelated, is there anything open in Builth late? I think that'll probably be my last chance of anything based on my start point (and that's being optimistic).

There's a kebab shop, also Burger King, and the petrol station/coop, but not sure what time they close.

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Sat Oct 03, 2020 4:38 pm

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Oct 02, 2020 10:26 pm

Rather 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

I bloody hope so. These pictures were nearly enough to put me off...

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...

JohnClimber 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?

I've got some, they are nice, not at all itchy, or scratchy

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...

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.

[/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 ...

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...

Fargoist wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 11:48 am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxGEVIv ... eY&index=1

"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....

Thanks, great write up, sounds amazing

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Mon Jul 27, 2020 1:57 pm Deerhounds Peter.

O wow, gorgeous, love those

The song "running to.the hills" by Dan Owen kind of describes it nicely for me. Obvs cycling instead of running.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...