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November beach bivi.

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 8:04 pm
by JohnClimber
What a fantastic trip to and around Newborough Forest on Anglesey

Ok you want some details?

5 riders, Jeff, John, John, Tim and Mark arrived at the designated start point at just after 12pm on Saturday 15th November.

We had clear sky's, warm weather and a perfect forecast for the next 24 hours.

So, once loaded up with all that we needed off we went into the sun for a 24 hour beach bivi ride.

I'll let the pictures do the talking, here are my 7 favourite shots with a few words under each

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1st group shot

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Looking for the perfect bivi spot

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Found it, followed by the best nights sleep I've ever had under canvas :grin:

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Sunrise over Snowdon

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Sunrise view from the "perfect" bivi spot

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Perfect conditions

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Morning ride to the butty van

The full set of my photos are here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/25655510@ ... 992755873/

Ride stats
Saturday - 21.3 miles
Saturday night ride beach ride - 6 miles
Sunday - 21 miles

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2014 9:05 pm
by Bearbonesnorm
Looks cracking that John.

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:52 am
by Charliecres
That looks like a fabulous trip. Good work

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:23 am
by freakychurchill
And here is a video of the vaguely exciting couple of days


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuf-d3Ydjg

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 11:48 am
by Wotsits
Good vid & great pics as always John, looks like a great trip :-bd

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:17 pm
by JohnClimber
This has to be one of my best bike rides of the year, it was defiantly my best bivi ride and it wouldn't have been possible on a normal mountain bike.

You need a Fat Bike for Christmas :-bd

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 1:16 pm
by summittoppler
A few pics from me and a 12 minute video to come soon :)

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Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 2:34 pm
by barney
freakychurchill wrote:And here is a video of the vaguely exciting couple of days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuf-d3Ydjg
what an amazing 2 days, think I might as well sell all my bivi kit because that will never be bettered !

currently in work with no YouTube access... can't wait to get home and watch it

thanks to Jeff for arranging the summer-like weather, perfect bivi spot, endless supply of firewood, spectacular views, fireworks, bacon butty van, para-glider flypast, micro-light flypast, sea-kayakers, wild horse stampede, access to fresh water & toilets... :-bd

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:13 pm
by Ian
Well that just looks rubbish, and I'm not at all gutted that I didn't make it :|




(in the domestic department, my lad is still pretty ill, so it was a good decision not to make the journey. As a conciliation I got out for a good ride ride on Sunday with yetiman - there was lots of bogs and fog, so a world apart from Newborough)

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:46 pm
by Mike
Cant wait for next yrs trip, this one looked good and you guys had such better weather than us.

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 3:52 pm
by freakychurchill
Timelapse of the sunrise as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CZqxelwGL8

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:00 pm
by Mike
That was nice, did you use a go pro or a slr?

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 4:54 pm
by RayKickButts
4 loads of washing manky bike clobber, 2 hours fettling and cleaning the bike i still keep finding sand! great weekend bivi my best group one of the year without a doubt, just a shame we ran out of hip flask entertainment

Have to say my legs are in bits after 4 days of fun but i blame Snowdon for that and the crap weather it chucked at me and bending my tent poles!

Have to say some bloody great photo's from the trip, i'm the hairy handsome barsteward in Orange :-bd

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 5:01 pm
by freakychurchill
Yetiman wrote:That was nice, did you use a go pro or a slr?

I just used my Sony hdr sports cam on a 5 sec timer. Glad u like

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:22 am
by summittoppler

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:34 pm
by JohnClimber
Cracking video Jeff :-bd

All of my good photos of the weekend in a 3 minute video

For the best view make it full screen

http://youtu.be/GYzpKpCYg2s

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 8:18 pm
by Farawayvisions
Love the shot with the silvery yellow light on the water. Stunning. Enjoyed the video too. Fat bike envy. :mrgreen:

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:29 pm
by big john
Love the pictures and videos I saw that one had the on one bike. I really liked that bike but heard it had loads of problems have you had any?

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:31 pm
by big john
freakychurchill wrote:And here is a video of the vaguely exciting couple of days


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuf-d3Ydjg
Where about is all that water is it seawater I would not like to bike through that but great vid

Re: November beach bivi.

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 3:35 pm
by freakychurchill
big john wrote:
freakychurchill wrote:And here is a video of the vaguely exciting couple of days


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epuf-d3Ydjg
Where about is all that water is it seawater I would not like to bike through that but great vid

No problems with my On-one apart from a broken chain so far and no was not sea water but bit go through some waves and is fine as long as u wash your bike :)