5 plus extras go mad in the heat of the WRT 2021 SparWars

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5 plus extras go mad in the heat of the WRT 2021 SparWars

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Picture heavy
Arrived on Saturday morning to a little nervous tension in the air this year.
Maybe we weren't hung over from The Star pi$$ up the night before.
Numbers low because of Covid, Bear Bones Towers felt a little strange, But Stuart, Dee and the #crew did a great job as always.
Tea drunk, poor show talked, butties eaten, Raffle and weigh in prize giving done, a "feck off" from Stuart and we were away.

I rode with Sam, Mike, Jeff and Lee, until we found a lost Alex who's Dad was elsewhere on his own adventure so she hooked up with us making a happy gang of 6.

By Sunday evening we hooked up with Ben, Steve and Jason for the ride to find a suitable bivi spot........
But I was knackered and when Barney jumped out on us from a bush on a corner saying "there's flat bivi spots here" I was done for the day, I was joined my Lee and Jeff who's rear jockey wheel had exploded several miles back.

Up early Lee, Jeff and I left Barney for a nice ride back to Bear Bones towers, saying hello to Mike, Alex and Sam who had only just got up and back to Dee and Stuarts for cake and tea at a very early 9am and home for 12 noon and some brownie points in the bank from the wife.

Thanks to everyone and for Mike for picking up my front through axle that I forgot to load in the car and taking it home after I left it in the grass by the side of the car. :oops:

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60lbs (too much Stans in my tyres and heavy Scouse water I guess - must to much better next year

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And at home
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Plus these two and a couple of smaller ones that I couldn't dig out without doing the tyres more damage

End stat's around 75 miles and over 9,500ft of ups and downs
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Looks bloody great that. :-bd Sorry I missed it , as always :roll:
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fantastic photos. looks ace.
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Ah man, great shots!
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Nice one JC. Must've felt very strange with so much space in Stu's yard.
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What time did the ranger swing by on Monday, JC?

We carried on for a while, found a cracking spot by the river but it was already taken by a big 4 man tent - chairs and big stoves, the works. Heard they got moved on as well. We made it over to the Hafren main car park in the end
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That looks great, fab photos, especially the owl.
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Looks and sounds ace!

Yes, the owl, wow!!
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JohnClimber wrote: Mon May 31, 2021 9:48 pm Image
Great picture that! :-bd And the sunset one, obviously.
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Some lovely images there - the riders pushing up the hill really captures a vibe :-bd
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A few pics from me. Thanks again for letting me tag along.
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Film coming soon.... :-bd

Image20210531_073803 by Jeff Price, on Flickr

ImageIMG_20210531_102519_206 by Jeff Price, on Flickr

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Why is that bloke pointing at Sam's helmet? Was it a bollocking or something more friendly?
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Bearbonesnorm wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:10 pm Why is that bloke pointing at Sam's helmet? Was it a bollocking or something more friendly?
Tbf a very friendly farmer giving us some directions. We spoke with a few different farmer types and they were all so friendly towards us. One of the guys did say he had spoken to a few bikepackers on Sunday, one from Whitehaven if I remember rightly.
Even the farmer on a quad bike early Monday morning who waved at John seemed friendly, but he did go straight to the Ranger to grass us up!

Looking at the pic again, he should have been giving JC a bollocking for poor pronunciation of Caersws and Llanidloes (Lan he does) :lol:
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summittoppler wrote: Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:42 pm Looking at the pic again, he should have been giving JC a bollocking for poor pronunciation of Caersws and Llanidloes (Lan he does) :lol:
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A short 30 second clip of proceedings...
(click on the dark square) :-bd

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Saw that shot of the second bivy and immediately recognised it as where Cath and I bivvied on last year's delayed WRT.

TBH I think all the farmers in that area I've had chance to talk to have been friendly.
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If you've 7 minutes to spare here's what we got up to over the WRT weekend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDWpE3jLn6g
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Ace video Jeff :-bd :-bd
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Great video, thanks for that. The last drone shot up on the wind farm is terrific.
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Thanks very muchy! :-bd
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Good stuff Jeff :-bd
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