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Tips for newbie bikepackers and bikepacking the Trans Cambrian Way

Here are some tips fresh from my recent three-day attempt at the Trans Cambrian Way (TCW) as a relative newbie bikepacker. These tips are…

Jul 21, 2024

Tips for newbie bikepackers and bikepacking the Trans Cambrian Way

Jul 21, 2024

A few hours of Glorious Gravel — Cotswolds

I’ll be honest — I went into this event full of trepidation. I was stil feeling run down after the Trans Cambrian Way a week before and…

Jul 21, 2024

A few hours of Glorious Gravel — Cotswolds

Jul 21, 2024

Bikepacking, bike pushing and ‘bonking’ on the Trans Cambrian Way

Three days alone on a bike with a tent across the hills of mid Wales with limited experience, limited supplies and severely limited…

Jul 15, 2024

Bikepacking, bike pushing and ‘bonking’ on the Trans Cambrian Way

Jul 15, 2024

A Gower overnighter

At the start of 2024 I did a short ride around parts of Gower. It was designed as a little tester for a planned bikepacking trip I was…

Jun 15, 2024

A Gower overnighter

Jun 15, 2024

Wales never fails — an overnighter in the Beacons

In the numerous YouTube videos lauding the merits of bikepacking you don’t often get to see the energy-sapping, hard yards of pushing a…

May 16, 2024

Wales never fails — an overnighter in the Beacons

May 16, 2024

FTHOI v4.0 — a social ride

A slightly damp Saturday morning and I’m one of about 15 people who have gathered in Tongwynlais, just north of Cardiff, for the 4th…

Mar 9, 2024

FTHOI v4.0 — a social ride

Mar 9, 2024

Trail fails, flats and an abandoned ride

Back in October 2022 I rode from Sampford Peverell in Devon to Cardiff. It was 123 miles, and took close to 13 hours with stops.

Feb 12, 2024

Trail fails, flats and an abandoned ride

Feb 12, 2024

Gower excursion — getting a sense of a future bikepacking trip

For Christmas, my wife had given me a copy of Bikepacking Wales and the first trip in the book is a 2-day jaunt around Gower which…

Jan 8, 2024

Gower excursion — getting a sense of a future bikepacking trip

Jan 8, 2024

The St Avit shuffle

One of the ‘traditions’ of our visits to St Avit is a looped run around the country roads.

Aug 6, 2023

The St Avit shuffle

Aug 6, 2023

France — take five (perhaps six)

So off to France we go (or, to be accurate, have gone as we’re now there, or here, if you follow).

Aug 6, 2023

France — take five (perhaps six)

Aug 6, 2023

Darren Waters

Darren Waters

Assistant Editor, Digital Growth BBC News (3rd stint). Ex-ONS, BBC News stints one and two, Microsoft, PA. Like cycling and rugby. And time with my family.

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