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Yours looks nice and neat from that x-ray but yeah I hear they settle in different places and will just heal like that. I've got a considerable outcropping into my skin, there's little white spots where there's tension like a tent.

I was on 10mg co-dydramol which kept me nice and numb but i'm now not really on anything. It's really uncomfortable first thing in the mornings but just a general ache throughout the day now. I did instinctually try to reach for a falling phone the other day and that floored me for about 20 minutes.

@MrBaklava He might use this as an excuse to put it on the back burner which is understandable tbf.

@giofox Yeah happened last monday in which the following 6 days were the hottest most consistent sun we've had so far this year. Nightmare.

I've heard the speed of recovery after surgery has been really surprising for most people. Will hold back on the skids for a while longer in that case. I heard a nasty story of a pothole impact essentially re-fracturing a semi-healing bone. Awful.

I've semi signed myself back on to work but now i've got the visual of how bad the x-ray is I don't know what I was thinking.

Just back from my follow up appointment, a few more X-rays and the doctor said 100% surgery.

Still waiting to find out a date but post-op he said back on the turbo in two weeks, back on the road in 2 months. Guess that’s all mostly physio/confidence related with a bit of swinging either way.

corratec fluro socks look incredible

Ben's gonna be waiting for Einer in the carpark at this rate

ah, excellent news. Do you use collapsible poles? or a purist with sticks/trees/etc? Curious about the removable wheel situation but The faff of taking your bike apart really doesn't seem worth it for the cost of poles?

@JB Reading some chat about cat cut tarps are a little less adaptable to different situations/layouts? But my thinking is that if you're using a one person sized tarp you're probably best using it in the same setup all the time anyway?

Another new member here. Foot unclipped doing standing start sprint efforts at herne hill. Doctors said they would call me in a few days to chat options but was auto invited for an appointment next thursday. Just based on how it feels/looks I have no idea how this is supposed to heal naturally. I want surgery for nothing else but the idea that something is being done, mentally pretty strained at the idea of just waiting.

@M_V So has it made you want a full sus more or less? Hope you're well

Anybody have experience with an A-frame bivvy arrangement? (references attached) I have a rubbish time sleeping in tents/outdoors anyway so i'd like to romanticise the whole thing by building a beautiful structure and waking up basically outside which is the actually good bit of bivvying. I'll only ever plan to be out in summer situations (which kind of makes the tarp void but go with me here).

My one hesitation is that once you add up all the costs & weight of tarp, poles, stakes, bivvy and maybe groundsheet is that you might as well just get a Lanshan 1 Pro. Overthinking it? or are tents just so good now that there isn't much benefit to tarping anymore?

shite stage, nice plateau.

enjoying hatch's pronunciation of Deh-Ess-Ehm (DSM)

after having a look at some other world tourers. It looks like you're both pretty streamlined/dare I say minimalist? I guess when two people are sharing sleeping/cooking stuff it helps spread the mass out?

great photos, must be hard to share months of cycling within the 5 file maximum upload limit.

I was never good at maths. would have been good of the commentators to let us non good math people how much of a gap DV needed, Marty McCrossan is particularly bad at not talking about specifics

i've done the math and I reckon Vollering has done it.

There’s loads of diversity, big ones, small ones …

Back from a ride round Wales. Planned to do a 950km route (thanks to those that chipped in a shaped it in another thread) but on day 5 the right knee said 'absolutely not' which put me on a train at Newtown back to London.

Highlights were the infinite misty coastal climbs around Northern Pembrokeshire with each little inlet having its own unique fauna even though some are just a few kilometres away from each other, the road that heads out north from Aberllefenni past the disused slate mines heads straight up into the super exposed hills and Hirnant Pass with the rapid descent through enormous pine trees just afterwards towards Lake Vyrnwy.

My first go at solo, back to back big days, not sure i'd want to do another trip like this but it was nice to just be riding all day (all 5 of them at least).

Quick one on YHAs. I'm looking at places around Wales and some of them have no availability for shared dorms for the entire year. Is that just they can't be arsed to maintain the online reservation system or is Wales the center of the backpacker universe? Do you need to speak to a real person for some of these places?

@SimonInd yeah did consider the wye valley, think it's too far east for the current route and timings.

@Alf0nse I'll go in assuming this and hope for the best. Any tell-tale signs to help?

Here's the version 2 of the route that takes some of these suggestions! I also hear there's a pie shop inside a Spar in Betws-y-Coed that I must go to. Got it as close to 1000km as I can be arsed.

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/42541521?highlight=10924-18205
?highlight=10924-18205

would prefer alloy and compact but if there's some carbon out there? maybe?

perfecto! PM'd

he went but took a big break with him. Then went proper solo at 30k to go or something.

called it

Tom went too deep on that one, Ben will drop him on the Bemelerberg.

@ElGato This all sounds excellent, especially for the bothie recs (which is what i meant when i said bivvy) I'm definitely into steering clear of the busier roads and staying in the hills. Nice reminder on the lack of re-supply points in some areas, i'd heard this from friends who have done the bryan chapman, the space I save not bringing a tent can be filled with haribo and cheese sandwiches.

@spinnnout Done and done, Devil's staircase looks amazing, heres a great video
of a group of convertible Morgans going over it with some of the most perfect Balearic house in the background. Hostel looks great, noting for mine and others future reference that there's no electricity there so bring your powerbanks.

@pacef8 Thats a great shout, have picked up!

Currently thinking something along these lines, i've got 10 days to do the 1000km but quite keen to do some big days and maybe a rest day in the middle.

Never been to wales before so no idea if this is taking in the nice bits or not. Will be aiming to YHA (and maybe bivvy if there are some accessible by road) all the way as to be somewhat lighter to enjoy the hills, but packing an emergency bivvy just in case.

Should I be going somewhere? Should I not be going elsewhere? Pubs? Food? Climbs? Roads? Towns? I know nothing!

https://ridewithgps.com/routes/42531637

tbh It's only made sense with your man wiggo in transitional tour stages where you get some capital B banter with the rest of the lads when they're in the caravan picking up bottles etc, theres no actual #insight to have, it should just be for levity's sake.

Mad 4 Mads