June 2017 Lake District trip
Category: Trips
South Downs Double attempt / Bivvy
Well sometimes things go your way and sometimes they don’t! But there’s always the chance to learn something from it along the way and this weekend was no exception. Recently some of my friends have completed the South Downs Double and I was rather desperate to be part of that club. Several people I knew…
May & June 2017 Bivvy
May Bivvy 1 The weather was pretty good again, but some rain was forecast overnight, I’d been experimenting with different tarp setups, this one was pretty good, certainly lots of space for my kit, but it needs another pole to keep the back up and off your feet. May Bivvy 2 Another bivvy in a…
Purbeck Loop
We made our yearly pilgrimage to Purbeck, we’ve got a couple of different routes that we mix and match when we make the trip west and this time, thanks to Pete, there was a new cafe to investigate too, which is always an important part of any excursion!! Unlike previous trips we took the car…
Welsh Ride Thing 2017
Heading out of Bear Bones HQ we went a different way to those we have used in the past, out up the valley on the bridleway. It was a good choice, not too steep, but it got us all warmed up ready for the day ahead. We rode a variety of bridleways, heading towards Machynlleth….
April 2017 Bivvy
We hit the jackpot with April’s bivvy, the weather was awesome and the trails were fast and dry. We camped in our usual spot near Chanctonbury and then had a way too expensive second breakfast in Steyning.
Tour Divide / bikepacking tool kit
I thought I’d give a breakdown of my bikepacking toolkit. This is the full set up I took for the Tour Divide, so in reality there may be a little more there than you would use for a couple of days riding round Wales, but in the end I had to know that I could…
Tour Divide Diary Day 32 – 26/07/16 – The Tourist Bit, The end of the trip
Tour Divide Diary Day 32, to the end of the trip….. 26/07/16 So this bit just ties up the rest of the trip, essentially we were killing time till our flight back. The right hand side of my face had swollen right up and the toothache got so bad I had to give in and…
Tour Divide Diary Day 31 – 25/07/16 – The Tourist bit! Slickrock
Tour Divide Diary Day 31 25/07/16 Moab Slickrock Trail 10.2 miles 1660 feet of climbing As a mountainbiker from the UK my first experience of the Slickrock was in the 1994 film Tread:The Movie. In the film it says “once a cool thing is done, it cannot be undone”, well I was looking for a…
Tour Divide Diary Day 30 – 24/07/16 – The Tourist Bit! Slickrock
Tour Divide Diary Day 30 24/07/16 It was only 149 miles to Moab and we got that done pretty early in the morning. There were yet more incredibly straight, incredibly tedious roads to drive, but once we were getting deeper into Utah the scenery started to get more interesting and we were both really excited…
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