Varun's Bikes, Stayer, Cotic, that singlespeed Rockhopper....

Wales: completed it mate. I ended up with a slightly lighter setup than above, which was probably wise as the hills and terrain kicked my butt, especially on Friday and Saturday when the last remnants of storm Lillian were blowing over Eryri.
Bike-wise, a few things that worked, few that didn’t:

• Wedge frame bag and two 1L bottles were amazing; I never ran out of water and didn’t need to use my filter even when traversing remote bits of the mountains.
  
• rear rack was amazing on its first real rocky mountainous trip, super solid and stable.
  

• The knock off Jones bars (On One Geoffs) were excellent - can’t remember if it was a forum user who suggested it initially but the choice of hand positions, upright posture and the rain jacket lashing point on the loop were great.

• I had a musette bag for lunches, which was super handy, but it kept swinging forward and bouncing on my hips on any off-road bits, which wasn’t.

• My tent poles shook loose a couple times and lost one voile strap, sob (user error rather than equipment fail).

• rear tire is low on tread and therefore low on grip, leading to some skids on the gravel descents.

And that’s it. Looking forward to an autumn and winter now of finding little things to fiddle with it.

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