Barra Airport

Your entry form is hard to find on your home page.

Well it is for a luddite like me so here it is

http://www.hitthenorth.net/entryform/

How many riders do you need before the weekend?

Well done to you all

I'm loving my new Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX5

Some recent shots from it

Isn't Russia now part of Europe?

If so I'd love to roam around there for a bit

Ok so I broke rule 2 but I'm an ugly fecker

Sort out your pointing

How the hell did you stumble across this one?

What were you searching for?

I saw a billboard in Sheffield this week for Decathalon selling tops for under £8

And as if by magic
http://www.decathlon.co.uk/EN/cycle-shorts-jersays-feet-850981/

After 3 years of riding with bent bars on my 4 bikes
1 x Jones H bars
2 x Carnegies
1 x Mary

I feel that riding with your "normal" bars is just wrong, I don't know how you all ride with these bars as I feel they offer me such an elbows out and un natural arm wrist/position.

Thanks

NW??? That's southern

I see your chain ring and raise you a big wheel

Trail rat are those shots of a partner?

My rumblefish ready for last weekends Welsh Ride Thing.

A great all day fun bike.

on a ride near Sheffield last year

And some of us had to listen to you snore all bloody night long 👿

Not us, on Saturday it was a damp forest bothy for us lot.

Sunday saw us at the Blue Bell at Langurig. After 2 days of riding and 2 or 3 beers we were merry but not pi$$ed. We made camp before dark 3 miles away from the pub.

We left all 4 bikes unlocked out side a pub while getting fed and merry, then next to us in the field nearby while we slept.

They weren't nicked, maybe it was the sheep shit camouflage hiding them.

I like how Stuart didn't give a dam about how many check points anyone did and filed the papers in the bin.

Just think of the weight saving next year. No pen…..

Well done Piston for getting all 13, you must have had local knowledge or you're super human, or both.

Here are our shots, nothing special be we had a laugh

What a great weekend, how long before you lost interest in counting the grid ref's. We started to forget about them about 11am on Sunday morning.
A great event with a 90 miles ride/push/wade with an average of just 6.4mph
Day one – the start

Day two – another moorland crossing

Day 3 The End

For those who have ordered food on route

Don't forget to get to here
Aleppo Merchant Inn
Carno
Caersws
SY17 5LL
for 11.30am tomorrow and remeber what you ordered

placid_casual – Member
is it too late to switch to my singlespeed…?

Not a chance in hell for me, have you seen how much climbing there will be?
Out of the saddle climbing with that weight on board, no thanks.

Isn't water bloody heavy?

Back pack weight without water just 4.1 lbs
With 3 litres of water 10.6 lbs

Most of the other stuff's on the bike

This time tomorrow most of us will be on route to the start.

Must double check my stuff

Used to be into rock climbing.

Now I prefer to ride up hills rather than rock climb them.

Yes trio

I've just emailed them the following

7 x Lasagne with salad and garlic bread
3 x Saus n mash
1 x (Large) jacket potato topped with tuna and ham

Please make sure you turn up around 11.30am on Saturday
Please make sure you remember what you ordered.
Please make sure you pay for your own food.
Please turn up as the rest of us don't want to pay for your food.

See you on Saturday in the pub.

PS Should we just stop there until Monday?

To those who have ordered food.

On route to tonights ride I'll phone Tracey at the pub on 01686 420210

with the order of

5 Lasange
3 Sausage & Mash
1 Large Jacket spud.

11.30 arrival time.

If you want to join us phone her yourself ;-p

2 bags on the front survived the back garden wheelie test well.
If it doesn't work well I can always put them on my back as the rucksack will only have water and a couple of changes of cycling clothes as the Carradice saddle bag is ace and holds loads

http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/2142?&search=rhayader&itemsPerPage=10&region=world&area=Rhayader

light weight water proof?

I have stop trying to confuse me

Ref your food order, please, please, please remember what you've ordered.

I'm not making a note of your names next to what you want.

with 2 of my riding buddies so far I've asked for

4 x Lasagne with salad and garlic bread
3 x Saus n mash
1 x (Large) jacket potato topped with tuna and ham

still s8tannorm – Member
Ahem … I'm sure you'll all be pleased to know the midges have just hit town half an hour ago!

Whacko – Garlic bread with my Lasange on Saturday then

alfachippy – I do like how you've invertered your smaller saddle bag just behind the bars. I might steal that idea if it will fit.

pistonbroke – Member
There's a really alarming number of singlespeeds doing this event, do you know it's in Wales?

I was thinking the same, I've got 2 SS's I could use but the full bouncer with gears is coming this weekend.

I can't imagine how difficult climbing out of the saddle will be on a SS what with all that weight on the bike swinging around underneath you

I just called Tracey at the Aleppo. She says if I could call her on Thursday evening with the food order from their menu they will open up around 11.30 for us and make sure the food will be ready and waiting.

So order here but keep it simple for me.

Lasange x 1

Yep our route head south to Newtown then up via Carno.

So, we'll see you at the Aleppo Merchant inn at 12 sharp

http://www.thealeppo.co.uk/

I'll have the Lasange please

11 to 11.30 at Llanidloes it is then.

Anyone else?