Captain Flashheart, I’m in mid Wales, I think Mule website said nearest stockist is in Shrewsbury?

how long till Pants sees this thread and offers me some freebies then 😉

hullo 😀 also tend to read more than I write…

druidh, what do you mean by “manually calculating off a map”?

Personally, I’d say Skye every time, no matter what time of year – but if you’re after a “city break”, both Stockholm and Helsinki are cool places to go to (literally in February :wink:). I’ve been to Helsinki more often, and although it’s on the coast, it still was usually snowy/frosty rather than just wet in winter, just cause of the temperature (ice diving in the frozen river, anyone ;-)?). Food was great in both places, alcohol a bit on the expensive side (I mostly drink vodka mixers though, no idea about beer…)

digimap/stuartie_c – just checked the ride I’ve still got saved on the Geko, and the starting and finishing elevation details are indeed different although I started/finished at the same point… never thought to look at that before 😯

Enjoyed reading the further discussion though, and I guess I’ll mostly rely on my legs to tell me which estimate is the closer of the two (Geko or Tracklogs) 😛

uh, interesting, no easy answer to that one then! Thanks everyone for having a go though!!

I use a Geko 301, I don’t think that’s barometric (or is it? 😳 must check instruction manual…)

I did wonder whether there was something like the step effect druidh mentioned going on, but it seems that this isn’t likely?

Think I’ll go and have that cup of tea now (barney :wink:) and read your scientific explanations again!

I often go out on the mountain bike by myself and have done so ever since I got into it 5 years ago – strangely enough, falling off and injuring myself somewhere “out there” has never even occurred to me!

Might sound strange, but the only things that sometimes worry me are that there could be some “weirdo” out there who attacks me (I know, I know, I read too much scary fiction) or having to ride through/right past remote farm houses that might have free running guard dogs (I’m absolutely petrified of dogs)…