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[Closed] Anyone got any photos of the heinous LL bit of the WHW?

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To my eternal shame, I've not actually taken a bike from Inversnaid to BGF, so I don't have any pics.
Anyone got any good pics I can steal. Preferably ones that make it look heinous

Many thanks


 
Posted : 04/12/2021 1:16 pm
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Have you tried Geograph?


 
Posted : 04/12/2021 1:59 pm
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I've never really taken pics, as you can never really see more than 10 metres ahead, and also surrounded by trees.

And no pics capture the unrelenting horror.


 
Posted : 04/12/2021 2:02 pm
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New I’d seen some photos here in past few days. LL ladder of doom.

singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/what-big-silly-bike-rides-have-you-done-this-year/#post-12132346


 
Posted : 04/12/2021 2:46 pm
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Link


 
Posted : 04/12/2021 2:48 pm
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Thanks Bri

@munrobiker can I use your photo ?


 
Posted : 04/12/2021 2:48 pm
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Must be 10 years since I did it. Time just be a great healer, only rose tinted thoughts now 😀


 
Posted : 04/12/2021 2:57 pm
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I did it in the dark one November. I mentioned I could smell goats cheese. It was explained to me that that's what goats smell like.


 
Posted : 04/12/2021 10:10 pm
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I've come across some big herds of wild goats in the galloways, they smell like shite, not cheese 🤣


 
Posted : 04/12/2021 10:38 pm
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It's like a vampire; can't be photographed...

The detail has to be passed from Father to Son, in hushed tones, round the campfire...


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 6:52 am
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It's a truly hateful path. I too encountered a big old wild goat, smelled him long before I saw him.

Time hasn't done a thing to heal the pain of dragging my bike along there. I'm just grateful I did it on a light hard tail.

The thought of having to man handle some sort of full suspension doo hickey along there, naw just naw.

I had read the accounts of folk who said it's desperate, don't do it. But I knew better..

I bailed at the wee ferry over to Ardlui.


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 7:53 am
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I’ve come across some big herds of wild goats in the galloways, 

What the whole herd?
You beast you.
No wonder they smelled.


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 10:05 am
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@tg mibbe in my younger days.


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 10:34 am
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@thegeneralist, aye, fire away. @hungrymonkey also has one where it looks like I'm hacking through the rainforest and it looks really shite. Because it is really shite.


 
Posted : 05/12/2021 11:53 am

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