And yet event bikepacking (TDF/HTR etc) is the complete antithesis of this. I find myself in agreement with Colin here. This is a Bikepacking forum. I'll let you go through the threads and see what proportion are about events. There are times it seems it's every thread Bloody hell that's twice in o...

I've used (as suggested on here) Stormsure Tuff Tape on a jacket, transparent and very, very sticky. Still going strong, cheap too.

I've pretty much always ridden until I find somewhere to stop that I like. Does that make it camping/comfy bed to (extend the) ride? Like most I don't like being tied to other peoples timetables.

A bit too much normal life getting in the way so far this year, so I only have 4 out of 6 to my name so far. March I missed even though the weather was pretty decent. For March. April was done on the WRT https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4179/34279831611_c81b884e2b.jpg IMG_1461 by Richard Picton , on F...

It's a sad reflection of the soft world many people live in, even those who proclaim not to

Guilty as charged, sorry. Still enjoy it when I can though.

To friends and especially, colleagues? I work in an fairly ordinary office, fair mix of "normal" people. Most talk in the office is football or golf. Not very interesting to me, when I was asked what I got up to at the weekend (WRT) I just muttered something about having been out for a rid...

That looks just fantastic. Cracking pics, I'll have a read of the blog tonight.

Hmm. Without doing anything at all I appear to have regained a square, and gone back up to 5 at 14x14 from 13x13 yesterday. Odd. It's a square where the VV line clips a corner, but the route followed is right on the corner where the grids cross. I'll have a trot across there to make sure I don't los...

Oh feckin arse. Updated yesterday - 3 at 18x18! Updated today and now I have 5 at 13 x 13. Bunch of arse. Got some work to do again.

This was taken on the first day of a tour in Spain and into France last month.

P1060262 by Richard Picton, on Flickr

Looks like I'm in as well, the likelihood of £10 straight to Scottish MR is high. That's no bad thing.

Pickers way of doing it worked straight away at work on a proper computer. :-bd A useful tip as well (apologies if you've seen this already). Open the Garmin folder as previous - look for a text document called "startup". Open this, the last line should read "Type your message on the...

Dead easy Tony, Plug it into your PC with a USB lead, and open the folder as an external drive. There should be a folder called Garmin, open this and look for a folder called New Files. Just drag and drop the GPX file here. Disconnect the Garmin and let it restart. The route should appear in the cou...

Nice film, I enjoyed watching that

makes me sad i missed it again this year, first thing that surprised me was the amount of cars parked up, so many people at the start but you only see a handful when actually biking!

They were at every cafe and pub we stopped at!!

I have a exactly this, and it has been used for bikepacking - I used it for the Chilterns southern bivy where it worked very well indeed. There's no way I'd have used it for the WRT last weekend, although it would have been fine for probably 80% of the route, the other 20% would have been quite diff...

Another ta very muchly from me! A great weekend in so many ways; with the possible exception of the climb out of Rheidol. We had a Barterism competition going up there. - Tarmac, Gravel, Singletrack, Trails, Bog Deathmarch, trail centre (sorry!) and riving crossings - Sun, Wind, Rain, Yep - Bivvy, P...

Me too!

There's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said. Just awful, awful news.

Worth the wait - nice words, great pics!

Reckon you had a damn good ride there chaps, even allowing for the Get orrff moi laand fella.

Seven here as well at the moment, not including the frame that's hanging on the garage wall. The carbon road bike The winter/general riding/audax bike The fixed wheel bike The on road tourer The mtb/off road tourer The CX type bike The Brompton And a 1996 GT Zaskar frame that will likely never be so...

No Tommy Godwin

no, I was hoping after Eileen Sheridan was on.

Good to see Nick Crane on though

OK, this arrived in the post this morning, let's see how we get on.....

Looks like similar tape to the one one from Alpkit that Greg suggested (thanks Greg) - the site wouldn't let me order so I guess they don't stock it anymore.

I've enjoyed the story so far...

Next one is written, just image processing now, so we'll see but it shouldn't be too long

I'm looking forward to this as well. I'll stand with the pannier toters!