After a short ride / hike up Carno Windfarm / fun descent we're in the Red Lion at Caersws. Lovely evening, huge thanks to Stuart & Dee for hosting and great to meet everyone, we'll be doing more trips now as a family as a result of how this one went, lots of fun.

Big up the headnet rave crew in the midge field!

Yes, great to put faces to names (and real names as well!). The bacon sandwiches were a particular highlight.

yes a very big thank you to Stu and Dee for the weekend great fun and great company. Becky loved the tussock racing, taking part and more so the watching. Thanks again to everyone who was there.

Great time had, thanks Stu and Dee, and sorry to shoot off so early this morning without a bye, thanks and Bacon sarney... I got savaged by the midges at 4:00am and it was fight of flight.. they won!!! Well done on organising and entertaining, a fantastic event as ever. Thanks - Rob

Thanks - Rob

Thanks - Rob, the Tussock Racing World Champion.

Thanks Stu, I spent my whole ride home thinking how my life would change from here on in. It was a great event, course was in great condition, and bang on the Barrington regulation distance and tussock height. heres to next years champs....

Big Thanks to Stuart and Dee for a cracking weekend! Some great chats, A fabulous buffet that was delicious. The cheese cake was to die for!
The weather was kind, the midges not so much! A pleasant trip in from Newtown for a disco and cheeky beer!
Big thanks guys

Id like to say many thanks to you both for a smashing evening....the food stall was vaguely exciting!! The music was great ( except that Agadoo song?? )

Cheers guys fab weekend and also good to catch up with fellow Boners, some new faces too

the food stall was vaguely exciting!!

Mike, you'll find it was actually a buffet ... all you can eat, so should have been right up your bridleway

Plus one to all of the above. Great weekend and what a community you have built Stu and Dee!

Yep a great weekend, a huge thanks to Stu & Dee for making my first visit to BearBones HQ a memorable one. What a great idea it was making folks cycle there which made me ride on some new roads.

Cheers!

Cheers to Stu and Dee for a great weekend, Cath and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves despite being knocked out in the first round of the tussock racing championships

Stu/Dee thanks for a great weekend !!!!

Nice to see a few old faces and a lot of new ones.

Cheers to George & Evie for the company on the ride back this morning.

a mega organised doo, thanks stu+dee excellent effort as usuall, think we all appreciated it, cheers to burty for a dodgy gpx, thanks to andy for the company and proven route off stu, arriva trains are great, got me to brum in the nick of time for my connection home

Thanks stu and dee, eve and I had a good time, despite the midges, and tussocky racing bell incident , food was great, and was nice to ride with a few of you again!

Thanks Dee and Stu for all your hard work and great hosting of such a fun event.

And thanks Stu for such a great route back to Wrexham, I hardly saw any cars for 90% of the 67 miles back.

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The final, and Ben is ahead...... until


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Not snow but hundreds of midges caught in the flash


Early morning and more midges

Thanks all

many thanks Stu and Dee, was a pleasure to meet you both, and all the fine folks who are the bearboners

typing this on the train having bailed out at Chester, on the plus side I have beer inside me now :)

I'll echo the thanks. To Stuart and Dee plus everyone for making it what it was.

Excellent weekend, Stu & Dee. Many , many thanks.
Food was superb, as was the music, as was the party goers. Good to see some old faces and great to put names to faces, and meet lots of new people.
Cheers to Mart for great company and a cracking ride back to Mach this morning, which got me home 5 hours earlier than expected. Result!
Top time had by all!!!

Managed to get everything dismantled, cleaned and put away by 7 this evening, just eaten my first food since 8.00pm Friday and standing in the kitchen at 2.00am this morning washing pots, now seems like weeks ago. Dave's right, we do have a community but perhaps strangely, I'm not proud of 'it' ... what I am truly proud of, are the people within that community, the individuals that form it - every single one, makes washing pots at two in the morning or forgetting to eat for 48 hours worth it.

That said, there's f**k all chance of another until at least 2021

Big thanks to Dee and Stuart for organising and hosting Bearstock.
Twas my first visit to the bears lair.
Was good to put some faces to names.
Loved the venue and all that food!
The route back to Rhayader was ace too.

Thanks for having me at last minute

Yep, thanks to Dee and Stu for putting on a great do.

Not a part of the world we'd been to before.

Great idea to make people ride there. We did some fine riding over the two days we were there.

Anyone else's midge bites itching like hell this morning?

JohnClimber wrote:Anyone else's midge bites itching like hell this morning?

tbh, despite having no net or repellent I seem to have got away scott free!!