So I am in a bit of a sticky situation in that I didn’t have a complete working bike I could ride til I go back to Birmingham at the end of the month. Rules can be a bit boring and I gave it a good substitute. I am interested in what defines a bike. Self propelled motion? Wheels? Gliding downhill? W...

Love a bit of cuddle bear and think it fits well on the rear pocket. Orange zombie just looks like a pumpkin to me. Is a casual orange and black feather boa on the cards?

metalheart wrote:Some Japanese Ti porn

...wouldn’t want this in any of my meals

7/7 This one was a bit different in that wasn't about the cycling or the sleeping in the wilderness. Yesterday afternoon eating my Falafel Mama I saw a flyer for an event in Gloucester that evening. Mix of beat box and theatre on the roof of a multi story car park. Last minute plans are my favourite...

This was a main road. In Wales. In March. I was prepared to risk being uncomfortable to experience something out of the ordinary

I was in a similar situation with life always being too busy with stuff to do more than a few days. Just go for it. I didn’t take any more clothes but allowed the luxury of a flannel which can make you feel fresh and didn’t really use it. Getting dirty happens slowly and you get used to it. Ride you...

Out of Wales yeah, but I’ve got a job in the Cotswolds so am living here now Have a scout about mate and let me know if your about in September and I'll have a trundle down ,more beer and talk more bollox as on wrt Cheers Stuart Sounds grand. Have poked my head around a bit and keep seeing potentia...

Out of Wales yeah, but I’ve got a job in the Cotswolds so am living here now

Finally got round to going on a "proper adventure" on my adventure bike. Went to an entire different country, Scotland, for a week of grrrravel and gwwwoar. Initially it was going to be the Wild About Argyll Trail, but two days in I realised my bike could take me anywhere and the embedded ...

No pictures of lightening as it was too quick for me. I do however have the arty farty prints from the WRT including a spooky one of the Mawddach estuary as the temperature inversion rises like a sea of ghosts

I rushed out to the back garden. Felt like I was part of an artists impression of a music festival as the sky was lit up in fantastic ways followed by a great rumbling of thunder that wobbled my mat. Super cool! Finally had the chance to test out my tarp rigging skills in rough conditions after all ...

Loved the article and the iPlayer link too. That video gives me some more ideas for my any bike is a bikepacking bike two-wheeled tramp trip next time I find myself stuck in London

Keen to try out my ultracheap (£7.35) gorilla cage alternative and make use of yet another ridiculously lovely weekend of Welsh weather, I set off. Whenever I tell anyone here I have a mountain bike here they have been like "Have you been to Coed y brenin? I hear it's amazing" "Nah I ...

I am not keen on the idea. How is us riding footpaths breaking that rule any different from lads on scooters ripping up our nice bridleway tracks? Yes we know how little damage we cause to paths, and our stench is merely natural, but to the rulebook rambler we are all lumped together as disturbers o...

Sorry Ray I will have to drop out of this. It would mean taking the second week off from my new job as holiday. Much as my boss is also a cycling nut and would surely understand, I need to show some sort of commitment to the job as I only have a trial initially May the weather be forever in your fav...

A simple solution would be bar end shifters combined with brake levers such as the TRP Hylex

Cheers. Yeah I’m here for five weeks still so will get to see how the welsh summer compares to the tenth anniversary WRT

Was getting the train back from a successful job interview in Stroud on Wednesday afternoon and just hit the rush hour commute from Birmingham. Lots of sweaty, sweary, stressed people piled into not nearly enough space so when I got to Shrewsbury to transfer for another train I decided to hop off fo...

Will be at the star using my favourite mode of transport. Weather will be grey sky with a bit of drizzle* as it always is round here.

Classification of drizzle is subjective

Hahaha fair cop

I can’t understand her disapproving look though, those orange mudguards have done an excellent job

4/4 over the weekend Woke up Saturday morning at 5am like a kid at Christmas. Bike was packed up, *summer* had started, Jack had set off driving down from York. We were going on an adventure! Set off at half eight hoping to make it to Nant yr Arian for 3pm to see the red kite feeding. We had a vague...

Too late to join?

I usually bikepack alone and keen for some pals to share the disorder with

Wildcat harness arrived thanks

Hi could I get the wildcat lion harness?

Bit late sharing but here are my write ups of Jan, Feb, and March. All eventful in their own ways. I set off cycling from York hoping to get home in two days on my Orange Clockwork with rear panniers. It would be about 200 miles the side route I would be trying to go. I was very hungover so only set...