Entry for the Dales Divide is now OPEN! You can sign up by the form below, hopefully everything on there is self-explanatory. You can also forward this to others as the link works for everyone. Good luck, best wishes and look forward to seeing you on Good Friday at Arnside. The link to sign up is ht...

Drop me an email Chris@highbark.co.uk

There's only a months activation to pay (about £15 I think?) And postage. Can't remember if there are batteries in it.

Chris

Boab wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 10:32 am

ChrisE wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 10:01 am mmmmmmmmmm

I made up my route at the weekend. I might have been a little optimistic...!!

Oh I don't know, my first route was 167.2km...

Exactly. 216km!

C

mmmmmmmmmm

I made up my route at the weekend. I might have been a little optimistic...!!

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Thu Dec 30, 2021 5:15 pm Just dawned on me - are we not a bit early for a WRT thread. Even I don't know where we're going yet.

Not WRT then, the 8/9 Jan thing whatever that’s called……..

You can tell I’m planning, when I don’t even remember the name!!

I know this will probbaly result in a torrent of screams, but has anyone ever crossed with a bike the Dovey at the rail bridge at Dovey Junction? There may or may-not be a walkway along it.

......asking for a friend....

Is there anything to ‘find’ at these checkpoints? Maybe a clip, a sign, a code, or maybe just a huge pile of fresh sausage-rolls, a hot bath and a massage?

It was genuinely bloody freezing

https://www.strava.com/activities/6347410017

I carry a pair of these. They make a huge difference and at 26grams, they are always in my bags https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/equipment-c3/socks-gloves-mitts-hats-c151/mitts-c153/kamleika-overmitt-p14672 I also have these that are identical but much cheaper https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/ad...

I’ve been watching the forecast and have convinced myself it’s going to be lovely and warm :o ....and not at all windy :roll: :roll: My first BB ride so not sure what to expect.....what could possibly go wrong??? The route is very similar (well it covers quite a bit of the same general area) as my ...

Charliecres wrote: ↑Thu Nov 04, 2021 11:42 pm I’ve been watching the forecast and have convinced myself it’s going to be lovely and warm

....and not at all windy

My first BB ride so not sure what to expect.....what could possibly go wrong???

The www says the Welshpool tesco is open til midnight on Saturday (reopens 10am sunday)

Have no idea how realistic getting there for sat night is?

I fear I'll lose my entry fee as I've got other things in my sights for 2022. I might just use that entry though then if it gets covid-cancelled I'll have a free entry for 2023!

drop me an email as I did some map-work for 2021 which might help you

Chris

Steve, I have just checked my old emails from 3 years ago. I think the taper bags are made from 210D dyneema which might mean a lot more to you than it does to me! I was charged £40 and happy to pay that. I've not had any water getting in there and normally have clothes, down jacket and a stove in t...

Joey (Mr Wild-Skye) did offer several thicknesses of DCFfabric. I went for the thickest one for that bag, black material (we chose a thinner one for feed bags etc). I got him to make two identical bags in case it didnt wear very well but two and a half years on (probbaly 30 trips) there is no damage...

I got this guy to make me one. I sent him some dimensions and he made it from superlight DCF. It's absolutly brilliant https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/wildskygear He's made virtually all my bags over the years (frame bag, taper bag, front roll, feed bags, peg bag, pole and tent bag). I weighed the old an...

Al Brownlee was interested in the Dales Divide 2021 being v Yorkshire and all that. I think it was far too near to Olympics time. Fair play to him having a go and especially because he didn't splash it all over the press.

whitestone wrote: ↑Mon Aug 23, 2021 12:19 pm <Kenneth Williams >Ooooh!</kenneth Williams >

Maybe you might see another Dales rider there.....

I'll be there :grin: British Cycling had issued their guidance today after long consultation with Sport England and in turn with Government lawyers. Although bikepacking events are not mentioned (unsurprisingly) I think it is fair to assimilate the Dales Divide as a "sportive".  If so by 1...

Bing maps is pretty good. You can switch overlays including 50k and 25k OS as well as satellite image making it pretty good to scroll around UK routes and fathom what they might look like.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 1:09 pm How long were you going for Chris?

I usually carry the full setup, part of the training!

besides that it pi$$ed it down so good to have a full change of clothes....mmmmmmmmmmm

Just climbing out of my sleeping bag in the high moors of the Yorkshire Dales. That's my answer to the subject. 2 days out alone. I just fell asleep ....officer...

woodsmith wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 6:53 pm Looks very similar to the old mine shops that the grouse shooting Gentry would use for lunch while we poor beaters crammed into the back of a land rover with a few wet labradors for our lunch.

Yes they are shooting huts but they make fantastic places to stay

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