Bikepacking the Badger Divide
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- For everyone thinking about bikepacking the Badger Divide, Scotland, hopefully this short film will help you in planning for this excellent adventure. Really great ride and I would highly recommend it! Full write up and more details can be found on my blog here: will4adventure...
Summed up bikepacking ! Its awesome like you say. Easy to enjoy the route with you because its obviously interesting with lots of route decisions. Thanks for sharing
Nice vid and web page, thanks for posting 👍
Well done, great post, and the link is really informative. Planning to ride the route this year myself, and intrigued by your choice to ride Glasgow-Inverness!?!? No one else seems to do it that way, so other than the wind direction, where there any other reasons behind this decision? Also, your choice of gravel bike is interesting. You stated that a mountain bike would be overkill, but surely with such wide tires on your bike, wasn't that just the same as a mountain bike!?!? No criticism here, just curiosity, as like I said, I'm planning to do the ride myself and haven't decided on a bike yet..haha! So obviously, any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks buddy!😊👍
Tim, really glad you've found my blog post useful. When I went over the Corrieackie Pass I was able to ride most of the way, and then pushed the bike up the zig zags with about 200m of ascent. Then ... from the top it's about 13Km of pure flowy downhill. It would have been ruined doing it the other way. As for choice of bike my MTB tyres are about 1.5 times wider than my gravel bike,and it's also about 4Kg heavier. I don't think any of it was unridable on the gravel bike and there's LOADS where you're on roads or smooth trails. A MTB would just have been a millstone round my neck. Anyway, hope you enjoy it! Will
@@will4adventure546 Hey Will, thanks so much for your reply, and advice. I have both a mountain bike and an old gravel type bike, but the tyres I have on the latter are only 700x38c which Iv replaced recently. So they would probably be too narrow for the Badger? That would mean more new tyres for that bike, which on my limited budget would be an expense; whereas my MTB already has appropriate tyres. What are your thoughts on 38c tyres and the Badger? As I've mentioned I have limited budget, and I don't have lightweight equipment, so am a little concerned about the weight on a gravel bike!? Did you use a bike computer/nav aid? Thankyou so much for imparting your experience and advice, you don't know how much it is appreciated. Thanks Will!😊👍
@@timporter8886 I reckon 38 would be fine. Failing that buy some tyres second hand or on Ebay.
It’s not called a lock, it’s called a loch. You need to sound like you’re clearing your throat at the end.
As i was born in england to Scottish parents, this was driven into us as kids everytime we visited relatives.
@@paralogregt lol… thats fair! I enjoyed the video.
Further information and for a full write up head to: will4adventurefirstaid.com/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-badger-divide/