I think IWRATS in particular will enjoy this.
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"On Wandering"
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Posted 7 years ago #
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IWRATS did particularly enjoy this, thanks @Stickman.
Hardy boys right enough. They appeared to be carrying no wine at all, let alone the fine stuff.
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Drone photography is opening up all new amounts of magestic views of the Highlands.
Where do you charge your batteries for your Di2 and does cycling through a loch not get into the electronics?
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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.
Also an interesting contrast between the 'On Wandering' theme and the...errr...spirited riding towards the end of the film.
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I think I'm now going to spend all night spotting the filming locations and trying to figure out the route.
The opening scene is Coire Fionnaraich bothy.
The causeway crossing is the one between Fionn Loch and Dubh Loch.
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The second bothy is Shenevall near An Teallach.
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Oh, very nice. Thank you for that.
I'm not totally convinced that they got full bivvy/bothying kit, food, etc, in those dinky wee backpacks.
(Compare the bikes and luggage of the competitors in the Highland Trail 550, who were genuinely self-sufficient...)Posted 7 years ago # -
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.
In the Artisan Bar: Hello my fine bartender (in whispered reverential voice) one of your golden usquebaughs to quench my thirst
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@fimm
There is clearly some Tardis type behaviour going on in those backpacks. You could barely fit a parrot in there.
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'.
Good to know what @gembo's internal commuting narrative on the canal now sounds like though. '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...'
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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
Big George left Seattle in the year of 92
With George Cram his pRtner and little Billy too
They crossed that Yukon river to find the bonanza gold
And something something something just a little south east of Nome.(Altogether now) We're going North to Alaska we're going north the rush is on
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.
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The river is a-windin'....big nuggets they are findin'
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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
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
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Here's another that IWRATS might enjoy.
Some on-trend young(ish) men riding to Cape Wrath. Very nicely made.
I found this on road.cc who said "If you're going to go on a cycling holiday, the very northern reaches of Scotland probably isn't top of your list." and thought of people I know for whom it is top of their list (or close to the top, anyway).
Posted 7 years ago # -
Good video. :-)
Posted 7 years ago # -
Fuller account of their tour here:
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Nice film and account.
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...
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