Brian Chapman photos

[juliet]

Further to my ride report of the Brian Chapman (619k bike ride the length of Wales & back, or 470k bike ride + v expensive taxi if you're me): photos!. Featuring me looking v silly in bike kit, & lots of pictures of Wales being pretty.

Things I would never have seen without audaxing: Welsh hills at sunrise.

Comments

[juliet]

It's not as much as it looks - it's just that I only have the one bag (which normally holds my laptop, change of clothes, lunch, book, 2 x locks, etc etc for commuting) so stuff has to go in there even if it's rattling around.

Seatpack has mechanical stuff (multitool, 2 x inner tubes, tyre boot, spare cables, headtorch, spoke key, cable ties, etc). Pannier has spare clothes & food, primarily. Given that this was a 600k, even allowing for the drop bag at Dolgellau (change of shorts, shirt, & socks, & Sunday's flapjack supply), I had about 8 flapjacks, couple of sandwiches, LS jersey in case of cold (needed on night stage), armwarmers ditto, raincape, rainlegs thingies, waterproof gloves, glasses, phone, camera, small medical kit (mostly ibuprofen :-) ), couple of other random things. It would pack into a space about half that (a third if you squished the flapjacks a bit :-) ).

The top-tube bag is tiny & contains only tissues, brevet card, pen, & money