http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: "On Wandering" en Mon, 18 May 2026 06:26:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-234598 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 08:57:15 +0000 fimm 234598@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice film and account.</p> <p>One thing they don't mention, she says cynically, is that there was no guarantee that they'd get all 4 bikes on the Invernees - Lairg train... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-234595 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 01:23:15 +0000 crowriver 234595@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fuller account of their tour here:</p> <p><a href="https://www.pannier.cc/journal/pannier/beulah-tour-cape-wrath-scotlands-wild-north-west-stefan-amato-jordan-gibbons-brother-cycles" rel="nofollow">https://www.pannier.cc/journal/pannier/beulah-tour-cape-wrath-scotlands-wild-north-west-stefan-amato-jordan-gibbons-brother-cycles</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-234512 Sat, 22 Oct 2016 13:39:13 +0000 crowriver 234512@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good video. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-234502 Fri, 21 Oct 2016 21:28:45 +0000 Greenroofer 234502@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Here's another that IWRATS might enjoy.</p> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/187849031" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/187849031</a></p> <p>Some on-trend young(ish) men riding to Cape Wrath. Very nicely made.</p> <p>I found this on road.cc who said "<em>If you're going to go on a cycling holiday, the very northern reaches of Scotland probably isn't top of your list.</em>" and thought of people I know for whom it <em>is</em> top of their list (or close to the top, anyway). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231094 Sun, 18 Sep 2016 14:14:12 +0000 gembo 231094@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Looks like I misremembered quite a few words but I remembered the idea that all the gold would be willingly swapped for a band of gold on little ginnie's hand beneath that big white mountain just a little south east of nome. Way up north, mush north to Alaska I'm going north the rush is on. Also early rap in the talking bit? Well maybe not</p> <p>Later on I sang to the tune f the Neil Young song about alberquerque oh oh ahh,ahh,ahh,ahh,ahh-ber-feldy. Which I thought was funny but no one else did </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231085 Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:33:12 +0000 I were right about that saddle 231085@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The river is a-windin'....big nuggets they are findin'</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSt0NEESrUA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSt0NEESrUA</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231084 Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:28:28 +0000 gembo 231084@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah @IWRATS you have rumbled me. There was a new guy on our jaunt through Perthshire yesterday, Fast Graeme. As we left Blairgowrie to climb over to Pitlochry I asked him if he knew the song North to Alaska off that K-tel record my mum had in the 1970s? He said no. I then sang it a bit loud as follows</p> <p>Big George left Seattle in the year of 92<br /> With George Cram his pRtner and little Billy too<br /> They crossed that Yukon river to find the bonanza gold<br /> And something something something just a little south east of Nome.</p> <p>(Altogether now) We're going North to Alaska we're going north the rush is on</p> <p>This greatly amused the postie who had been following us since dunkeld, OK, team of posties. They still send a lot of letters up that way and like in Dumfries and Galloway still plenty phone boxes as there is often no signal. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231081 Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:05:39 +0000 I were right about that saddle 231081@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@fimm</p> <p>There is clearly some Tardis type behaviour going on in those backpacks. You could barely fit a parrot in there.</p> <p>The film is a lovely fantasy after all - almost no one is going to assemble seven days' rations and bivvy kit and think 'ah yes, I'll just haul that through a waist-deep loch in the middle of nowhere'. </p> <p>Good to know what @gembo's internal commuting narrative on the canal now sounds like though. '<em>The still green waters have lain stinking there for months, the trolleys' memories of shopping but a distant whisper, the perch turning aimlessly in the void as I spin the cranks yet again, my destination but a seed planted etc etc etc etc...</em>' </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231078 Sun, 18 Sep 2016 11:07:28 +0000 gembo 231078@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Great film, scenery etc. I find that stylee of narrating, all hushed tones, slightly annoying. Hey Gembo give the guy a break maybe he speaks like that all the time e.g.</p> <p>In the Artisan Bar: Hello my fine bartender (in whispered reverential voice) one of your golden usquebaughs to quench my thirst </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231073 Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:19:55 +0000 fimm 231073@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, very nice. Thank you for that.<br /> I'm not totally convinced that they got full bivvy/bothying kit, food, etc, in those dinky wee backpacks.<br /> (Compare the bikes and luggage of the competitors in the Highland Trail 550, who were genuinely self-sufficient...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231042 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:42:08 +0000 I were right about that saddle 231042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The second bothy is Shenevall near An Teallach. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231040 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:30:45 +0000 I were right about that saddle 231040@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think I'm now going to spend all night spotting the filming locations and trying to figure out the route.</p> <p>The opening scene is Coire Fionnaraich bothy.</p> <p>The causeway crossing is the one between Fionn Loch and Dubh Loch. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231036 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 17:34:06 +0000 I were right about that saddle 231036@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hadn't realised this was advertising an electro-mechanical groupset. It does seem unlikely that anyone would set out for seven days in this wilderness relying on battery power to change gear. Though they do claim to only have used 5% of the battery's capacity.</p> <p>Also an interesting contrast between the 'On Wandering' theme and the...errr...spirited riding towards the end of the film. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231032 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 14:14:04 +0000 kaputnik 231032@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Drone photography is opening up all new amounts of magestic views of the Highlands.</p> <p>Where do you charge your batteries for your Di2 and does cycling through a loch not get into the electronics? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231023 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:32:12 +0000 I were right about that saddle 231023@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>IWRATS did particularly enjoy this, thanks @Stickman.</p> <p>Hardy boys right enough. They appeared to be carrying no wine at all, let alone the fine stuff. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16882#post-231020 Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:14:08 +0000 Stickman 231020@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think IWRATS in particular will enjoy this.</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/WZ-sbWSYhdo" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/WZ-sbWSYhdo</a> </p>