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Quite scuffed unbranded frame but everything runs smoothly. Currently set up fixed but has a sturmy archer freewheel. Doesn't come with pedals. Tyres are cooked. Gold chain.

£100

Collection from SE

some specs:

BLB forks
Tektro front calliper
Madison saddle
Temple stem
Temple cranks
40cm bars
schwalbe delta cruisers

still a mad amount of shorts being worn in London. Is it because of a lack of longs or a lack of feeling?

Is the saddle still available?

Dolgoch is incredible yes! Stayed there on the penultimate night of the above tour. We got to it over the Devil's staircase. My favourite of the 'Devil's' something that the British landscape is littered with.

the library had a great cycling scrapbook of some (amazingly apt) literature on touring around the area.

Dolgoch is incredible yes! Stayed there on the penultimate night of the above tour. We got to it over the Devil's staircase. My favourite of the 'Devil's' something that the British landscape is littered with.

the library had a great cycling scrapbook of some (amazingly apt) literature on touring around the area.

I'd recommend crossing the Barmouth Viaduct (which is super cool but a bit bumpy) and taking the bike path along the south side of the river/estuary. It's a packed gravel path but very ridable, I did it on 25's, away from cars and only a few walkers and dogs to content with. here's my day 3 route

Edit: just realised JustJ4 said exactly this already, well have it again!

Dolgellau is really nice as well, i'd head to DD's bakery for some filled rolls, eat one there and pack a few more to have after you get over the climb before Aberllefenni Slate Quarry.

Nice conversational operating notes, mine were a jumble of what looks more like inline CSS.

Nice they told you the brand of plate too. At first Google it looks like they do veterinary products, plates are probably good enough for a horse.

Sublime. We'll do the whole thing. Sandwiches look immense too.

Think i'm pretty sold on getting the train back to Turin via Ventimiglia, i'm guessing most rules around local trains and bikes are still valid. Did you stay much longer in Turin when you got back? @giofox @ad441

Will be camping most nights I reckon. my partner and I in an Alpkit Tarpstar with some decent 0° rated bags should be plenty by the sounds of it? Did the Wolf's Lair in Abruzzo last year and got around just fine. I'd like to go even lighter for this but not sure there's any extra weight left to cut. I'm a one pair of bibs kind of tourer.

Doing it in 8 Days is still about 7 hours (moving time) of cycling each day by the looks of it? I would like to be up high for the sunsets a couple of times based on your photo's.

Is camping pretty straightforward with that kind of day structure? You'll end up down in a valley each night? suppose that means some longer days to get over another col or some shorter so you don't end up super high too late. Need to study the route of course now we're getting more committed.

Looking to have a go at the route this year. Is everyone else quite strict on only doing this as the official event or has it progressed to a canonised route by now and doing it whenever is totally fine?

Going to be on off road drop bar bikes. Will look to sort out some 650b's based on the advice in this thread.

Alternatively: Turin looks and sounds like a cool place to spend some downtime after the ride. Is there potential for a 500km ish loop, so doing the first 250km of the route and then turning back through the mountains in almost reverse? or is that going to be rubbish, missing the best bits, etc...

Top tip for turbo-ing with a sling is you can just hook your injured arm in your bib strap so you don't end up cooking in the heavy density foam.

Also thinking of a trans Pyrenees route this year. Our plan is Girona to Biarritz. Also a similar on/off road route, but i'm struggling to find a pre-made route to hack, there's quite a few road only routes but i've no idea where the high mountain gravel roads are either. It's probably going to need some heatmap stalking to figure out the rideable stuff.

Have you already figured out your evening stops? or will you just ride as far as you can and see where you drop?

Paris–Nice on the zone 2 clubrun

Thanks for that context and advice, I'll have a frame pump on me so I can wield that as a bit of a swinging mace device to keep them a bit distanced. Not sure what the protocol for wild camping will be with equally wild dogs roaming around...

Going south at the bottom of Blackfriars bridge by the lights this evening, there was a yellow ortlieb pannier sitting on the pavement. I went and picked it up and since no one ran over I assumed the owner wasn’t around. I had a look for something to ID them but just a change of clothes, lock and water bottle inside. Thought the best bet was to leave it hung up tied to the button bit of the pedestrian crossing and the owner would find it retracing their route. Surely you would realise one of your panniers had fallen off? It was heavy with a D lock in.

Has anyone been cycling round Sicily? Vague 5 day plan here. Will be there from the 9th to the 16th of March, planning to camp/airbnb if we can't be arsed. Hopefully we don't freeze or burn up Etna, depending on conditions.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45642337

Not to be too specific but if anyone has a pair of 38cm Zipp Service course 70 ergonomics, that would be lovely. Anything similar?

The top 10 best camping spots must have about 150 contenders at this point.

Now sold, the hawk has flown.

that's lovely, the gold looks class, saw some orange ones online that are stunning.

provisionally sold awaiting collection

Yep, still available.

how about that wind

Hawk Cycles folding bike made in West Germany (~70's?) – £40

Full length guards, Hellenic/art deco chain guard, spring clamp rack, coaster brake.

Collection only from Peckham