Or just take it a step further with a popular ditty by The Cranberries....
https://youtu.be/6Ejga4kJUts?si=nNJ_jtzBSYr55In3

RIP wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 3:34 pm

JimmyG wrote: ↑Tue Apr 29, 2025 8:42 am and for a vivid imagination!

one of my many burdens, sigh....

Your earlier comment put me in mind of Brigadoon!

voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 4:26 pm Just finished this, it’s a great book

Well, you did better than any of the entrants this year then!!

RIP wrote: ↑Sat Mar 29, 2025 4:10 pm Just checked... it's foggy with bright sunny intervals mostly dry with occasional heavy showers and the possibility of thunder and lightning beware patches of black ice and heatstroke.

Thank goodness it won't be windy then....

This reminds me of why I've not been out the country for the last 20 years. Welcome to my world. I have to sympathise with you Shaf. Travel out of the country can be a hassle but I can't begin to imagine some of the issues you have to deal with 🙁 One of my daughters holidays regularly in USA, this ...

Has this been done yet? Schwalbe Click Valve
https://bikepacking.com/gear/schwalbe-c ... ve-review/

A step forwards or another unnecessary option? I like the look of it, wonder when it will be available this side of the pond. And at what price.

Thought this may be of interest to anyone thinking of incorporating the Heart of Wales railway line between Shrewsbury and Swansea into a ride. [Cut & paste] Today (25/2/25) was the first day in service for a refurbished carriage, one that should see daily use on the Heart Of Wales line. The car...

... now officially an OAP
Nurse Pilbow was going to arrange a special birthday treat but Nurse Ratched had other ideas
Move from trains to buses now?!?

JackT wrote: ↑Thu Feb 06, 2025 9:56 pm The A466 isn't an especially busy A road and you'd often be well away or well screened.

It's also currently closed due to unsafe rocks between Redbrook and Bigsweir Bridge south of Monmouth so quieter than usual - (doesn't affect the WVW which passes that section on the other side of the river).

Big hill views? There is the Beacons Way which runs East/West across the Black Mountains, Brecon Beacons and The Black Mountain. About 100 miles total and certainly some big hills!
https://ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_pa ... 8Brecon%29

Strangely enough I picked up the Ted book in a bookshop today Kevin but put it back down because it wasn't written by Mortimer! No idea why I did that!!
Thoroughly enjoyed his Satsuma book though. Wasn't what I expected.

Also managed to obtain a rare lady black poplar. Black poplars are the most endangered native timber tree in the country. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54285327090_ecb5f78656_z.jpg If memory serves me rightly, back in the distant past when I was being educated for my trade and taking in a bit...

dorsetshirelad wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 4:55 pm Sorry, I haven't worked out how to reply to individual comments yet! Perhaps someone could enlighten ?

D'you mean like this?
See that little 66 to top right (actually " quote marks)? Click on that

Yeah we have a station in Ludlow and we’re only one stop / short ride to Craven Arms and the start of the Heart of Wales line and all its interesting stops. I love doing this, having previously got trains to Leominster / Hereford / Church Stretton / Shrewsbury and ridden home. 👍 good suggestion. Wo...

Merry Christmas, Nadolig llawen, Wesołych Świąt Lu, Frome Weihnachten Verena, and to anyone else

The only thing I can add is that I have learnt to always carry a lightweight bivvy bag with me, whatever other shelter I may be carrying, when I am out with our Reg. You really never do know where you might end up....

Where did you put them in the cottage? Any mice about? The little buggers'll trim their teeth on anything

Badgers can be quite aggressive sometimes too. It's not unheard of for them to chase humans, even on bicycles (the human, not the badger...!)

voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Tue Dec 17, 2024 6:43 pm Not too long to go before 2035 and I always start a thread like this.

Not too long? I'd just be glad to make it

Don't let Reg see that, imagine all those square kilometres with no buildings, not even an old outhouse; the man will be gutted

The irony is (in UK especially) that breathable fabrics are at their least efficient in humid wet conditions plus pretty much all jackets have a bloody large hole that you stick your head through which may be ok if you're stood still but pretty inefficient when riding.

I was going to ask you Jeffer about my brick viewing pleasures at Talywain (see photo above). What's your pro opinion of those "pointless" (the base rock was the same all along, the arched rocks weren't erratics) and very interesting arches in the cutting wall? I spent quite a while admir...

Yay, just found it ... 8' off the track sat amongst the heather :-bd Makes you wonder how on earth it got there.... :???: :lol: Can just imagine "f#*~¤☆¿ track, b@^*<¡○ right of way, f&¡gg#*g gps" and woosh, away went the 'phone :lol: :wink: Well done Stu, top effort :-bd

faustus wrote: ↑Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:29 pm And should I stop looking at the ORPA between Great Turnant and Oldcastle? It looks like it might be 'interesting' or hellish...

I believe that one featured in the 2022 BB200 - enough said!

Black Mountains rides are great but also a bit formulaic; up and down, along a ridge, along a valley (over the years I've probably ridden every track and trail there severaltimes!). As an interesting alternative from Hay look to the North West, above Painscastle. There is some good riding on Llandei...