400 miles bikepacking in 7 days, based on the Highland Trail race route.

Loads more pics and a write up here

Been doing a good few miles recently. My lad is hoping to improve on this years 61st place in the solos.

Thanks everyone for the info. :)

There are a few place it would fit if I remember rightly from last year. A bit of a walk up the hill mind. ;)

did I read somewhere you can charge lights there?
will it be via a standard 3 pin socket or Via USB?

Exposure will be there for charging lights. If you’ve not got Exposure lights, bring your own charger.

Have a small tool box for quick repairs. You can take a big one with all your tools, but you really don’t want to be raking around in through a pile of tools when you just want to do something basic, so it’s easier to find it in the small box.

Or you could ride home and sort your bike if you were close eh. ;)

Don’t get your arse wet in the first place.

DO. NOT. SLEEP

Looks a great trip, thanks for sharing.

Why does the 661 guy not feature on any of these pictures?

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B.A.Nana

Has nailed it.

There’s no true survival of the fittest it’s who the producers think tells a good story. I watched the first, will watch the second, and then may not bother. A bit like “Hunted”.

What I do think is rubbish is the interference of medics when people have a bit of a turn.

It’s not real life for sure.

I got an old mini clubman estate for free that I presumed would be a shed. I picked it up and it was a one lady owner minter with a book full of service hstory.

I kept it for a few years until my daughter was born and I realised it wasn’t really suitable for child ferrying duties.

I got ~£2.5 K for it on ebay starting at 99p with no reserve and bought something dull and safe to drive with the proceeds.

Yep. what’s the score with camping/pits?

I’ve a good few uphill ones.

Currently targetting a couple of downhill segments on our tandem. Max speed (not ave) on one 48.9mph.

Scary stuff.

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Tom and I are hoping to be there on our tandem.

Hora

It’d be first out of the starting gate, though heading in the wrong direction.

There’s always bits of bikes and related stuff lying round our house.

I was berated the other week for not having tidied some stuff in the kitchen from the Highand Trail in May.

My ITT bike is cheap, rigid and steel.

Most importantly for the PBW is a bike that opens gates automatically though.

Get her to express some milk and then get out the house and do something else.

FWIW my wife went back to work within 6 weeks with both of ours and they lived off warmed up booby milk.

the bids got up to around £220 on eBay for 3 items

It’s nothing to do with you selling on Gumtree, the T+Cs recently changed that you will pay a FVF based on the £220 bids which you cancelled.

Link here for roundels.

http://pages.rapha.cc/rapha-rising-2015/register-for-a-rapha-rising-roundel

They’ll be asking for your address at some time I would have thought to send the badge.

Made it!

http://minipips.blogspot.com/2015/07/rapharising-2015.html

My non scientific experience is whilst a shorter crank may be a better a lower gear for hills is far more important.

My lad has 150mm cranks on a 34:25 and a 170mm crank on a 22:32. Guess which aggravates his knees?

How are y’all doing. We’re up to 5,427 metres. :D

No idea how you verify the rides though??

“Applications to claim a woven badge will open on the 19th. No Strava necessary, just your word.” from here – http://pages.rapha.cc/rapha-rising-2015

We’re going to have a bash at doing it in one #everesting ride. :)

Campervan with a tent awning would be the best thing.

Else big tent that you can stand up in, and have a brazier or gas heater for your helper.

Unless you have the campervan stay in a travelodge the night before.

As above ^^^^ entries went in minutes for the solo category.

I think we might do it on a tandem. :)

You should have gone to Whinlatter, sounds like biking in the mountains isn’t for you.

Aged 25, there was no way I was having kids ever.

Some 25 years later I have two kids.

As Tony says they are the making of most men. They made me sort a lot of stuff out sharpish which *may* be acceptable if you are just doing your thing in your 20s. Definitely not acceptable if you are a parent though.

I’m happy with how things have turned out. I love spending time in their company.

Why do you not see yourself as a parent?

Stoner has your STW account been hacked?

£40.

richpips – your right – I know he is only 6 but he does go riding down to the high street or into the city center a couple of times a week. If I let him continue being the idiot he is he is a risk to himself and everyone one else. He hit 2 people yesterday. I got to do something or he aint gonna survive.

Yep, I know what you mean. When I think back my lad had a number of close calls.

I’d be interested to hear if you find any courses, and if they have a long term positive effect.

My experience says at that age it will go in one ear and out the other though. Though I really want to be able to say otherwise.

We’ve got a local inter schools cyclocross race tomorrow.

No idea about Bristol.

I met an Aussie guy a couple of years back who worked in traffic safety. Their studies said that most kids brains can’t process all the info required to deal with riding on the roads until they are ~13. Make of that what you will.

My personal experience with my lad now 10, is that he has only just got the hang of riding on the road with due regard for himself and everyone else, and he’s been riding regularly on the road since he was 7.

Being able to interpret what is happening, and what might happen though we take it for granted is pretty tricky for kids.

I reckon they need experience, and that comes with time on the bike on quieter roads.

My experience is that it just takes time.

Worth checking that she can easily change gear, some kids shifters are really tough to change gear, and if that is the case, they just won’t bother.

From Buxton,I’d do that the other way round.

Stay on the road at Elnor Lane farm instead of going left, and the rest back to Buxton is easy.

Was referring more to the overpriced beer

Not much more expensive than any other locally for draft beers.

If you order a pint of Peroni though. :)

Moda Minor.