100 km loop in the Lakes with a bivvy after 35km and several beers it rained for around 9 hours but woke to a view @ 9.30am of this, it was great even though I forgot my pocket rocket and ate cold porridge for brekkie 🙁
Loughrigg Fell
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Stealth fighter profile into the wind 🙂
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Breakfast Company
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Rode lots of this the next day
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Looks amazing! I'd love to do something like that. I imagine however that good/effective equipment to be rather expensive 🙁
You would be surprised how cheap you can go with a bit of thought
What tarp have you got?
One day I will get it done I've been looking at equipment again.
Looks great up there! I can see that a tarp as large as that might be useful in that weather. I'm currently enjoying the Siltarp 1
The only thing I am nervous about now is the emergency stop and swerve parts of the Mod1, I am sure after a day on the big bike it will be fine though
Tarp - £20 from decathlon
Bivi bag £20 from army surplus
Foam roll mat (bulky, not as insulation as self inflating matresses but cheep and light) - £2.99
Sleeping bag - £££ but it's summer, you won't die in a tesco one, just take ronhills and an extra baselayer to sleep in
Everything else is just nice to have.
I used and Alpkit tarp £50 Bivi bag £30 Airo mat £20
bog standard summer sleeping mag £30, pegs and bungees from other camping stuff .Frame bag was made £75 which you do not really need!
Buy stuff from ebay which will do the job just as well for a third of the price
https://www.alpkit.com/bikepacking
Rig 7 tarp which I have been kindly loaned just bought a new one!
Drac sort it out!
I thought your pic was going to be of Holly Willoughby and Kelly Brook clutching a double sleeping bag while doing the wiggly finger 'come here' thing.....
And as good as your pics are, they are never going to match the mental image I have just generated. So for that reason.......I'm Ooot!
Nice pics though and I like the way you have styled your tarp on a stealth version of an Imperial Star Destroyer....
If I turned my bike upside down all night the next day my brakes would be borked...
Looks like a great evening, liked the concept of dinner arriving under its own steam...
it rained for 9 hours? whilst you were riding or sleeping or both. I bet you dreamed of a hot shower. Kudos mate, after 2 hours of rain knowing I'd be out in it all night I'd have turned back.
Did you take your own sheep or were they already there?
Drac sort it out!
I have a few bits and will get around to getting the rest.
Yer a lucky man Rich.
Somehow, I can't imagine it would be as much fun in Beacon Park.
Was raining(torrential) for most of the evening hid in the pub till it closed then an hour of hike a bike in the dark was a bit of a lottery where I pitched as there were several streams running down the hill.5 mins to pitch was just shorts and merino top, waterproof boots so getting dry was not a big problem with the heat and wind just cursed a lot when I went to make a brew 🙁
You had a poo in a bush.
were you watching!
Drac - ModeratorI have a few bits and will get around to getting the rest.
What ya missing mate?
postierich
You're not doing a good job of selling this to me 🙂
What ya missing mate?
Right let's see what I have first.
Jetboil
Sleeping Bag - an Ok summer one
Bivi Sack - the liner type going around the sleeping bag
I've spotted a couple if things I'm going to go for so will at some point do it but really it's a case of not bothering as there's no hurry.
takisawa2 - Member
Yer a lucky man Rich.
Somehow, I can't imagine it would be as much fun in Beacon Park.
Beacon Park would be a great place to do it. None of those annoying hills to have to get up and your only 5 mins from greggs so breakfast is easy to get. Perfect.