GFBD=Global Fat Bike Day.
If you've not heard of it, it's where people around the world ride their fat bikes on a certain day.
Anyways, December 7th was that day and in true north Wales GFBD edition I make it into a 2 dayer. So instead of me leading a ride on the coast, I thought a ride into Snowdonia was needed...
A ride from Conwy to Eigiau cottage which I done a month ago. However this was a lot tougher due to the (head wind) gale force winds and probably as I wasn't riding the 2020 carbon Salsa mukluk which I had last month (on test).
Some pics....
20191207_120256 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
plenty of faffing
20191207_130450 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
20191207_130745 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
20191207_133806 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
20191207_150204 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
A 'great' piece of hike a bike!!
20191207_152957 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
Weather is coming in!
20191207_155417 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
Just round the next corner...honest
20191207_161924 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
We got to Eigiau cottage in atrocious conditions
20191207_222019 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
But we soon got warmed up
20191207_220601 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
Fed and watered (it was good to stash the beers earlier in the week)
20191207_203040 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
20191207_190537 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
20191207_232349 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
20191208_091743 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
Hailstones in the morning!
20191208_102319 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
20191208_102415 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
Our cottage was the one to the right of the pic not the one on the left
20191208_103240 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
20191208_105810 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
Not a day for sunglasses
20191208_111909 by Jeff Price, on Flickr
Thanks to JC, SW, JA & JB for the company
GFBD North Wales edition...
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Re: GFBD North Wales edition...
Thanks for a great weekend Jeff
Same time next year eh?
Same time next year eh?
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It was certainly a wild one, I ended up camping lower down the valley for a couple of nights. Rode up to the cottage on Saturday afternoon but was probably too early to catch you guys and it was too grim to hang around for long.
Did I see you guys ride past camp about 4pm on Saturday?
Did I see you guys ride past camp about 4pm on Saturday?
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Nice one, can't beat a red hot bothy stove on a wild night.
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Yep that was us. You should have given us s knock, it was very toasty in there!
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Re: GFBD North Wales edition...
It looks a lot more cosy than fighting with broken guylines and flailing fly sheets at stupid o’clocksummittoppler wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 3:39 pmYep that was us. You should have given us s knock, it was very toasty in there!
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I've been searching ebay since saying that I couldn't make the daytime part of it for a fat bike. IF I had a fat bike and a 6 pack front candle I would have rode up in the dark, solo, and met you all.
Next year, I'll make sure I'm off, with a fat bike too.
Great pictures, extremely jealous, even though I ended up in keilder forest at 10pm and a bothie at 11pm on safe forest roads and a small cateye commuter light with 1 hour burn time. Haha.
Hope to see you soon Jeff.
Next year, I'll make sure I'm off, with a fat bike too.
Great pictures, extremely jealous, even though I ended up in keilder forest at 10pm and a bothie at 11pm on safe forest roads and a small cateye commuter light with 1 hour burn time. Haha.
Hope to see you soon Jeff.
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Re: GFBD North Wales edition...
Was a great couple of days and nice catching up even though I did not ride the 1st day with them it was a blast catching up.
Did a short video as well
https://youtu.be/5DTOiaWsx0k
Did a short video as well
https://youtu.be/5DTOiaWsx0k