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Impossible. 🙂
Thanks for sharing. Great video!
Good luck to the bloke. Hope he manages to do them all and do them safely.
Met him at fort bill one year. Guys a dead nice bloke as well
Impossible.
Bin dun.
I thought it had been "done" some years ago. Done meaning a bike was ridden/taken to all the summits, I can't imagine anyone actually riding to the summit of the Inaccessible Pinnacle for example.
It has been done before and quite a few are not ridable on the way down either.
Just seems entirely pointless. Its been done before but for a large proportion of them you will just be carrying a bike up to the top and back down again just for the sake of it. However, if its what you want to do, go for it.
Definitely some serious sponsorship milking going on here, for some essentially very mediocre riding.
I'm afraid my opinion is he'll undoubtably have some good memories and times but why would you?
He is well aware of the difficulties/limitations. Beats doing them with an ironing board though.
Met the lad when he was doing some scaffolding on my house. Nice guy and enjoy following his instagram/YouTube even if his videos are far from the usual over slickly edited stuuf.
It's not something I would do but given where we are with the pandemic and mental health if it makes him happy then good for him. A good day out on the bike isn't always about the riding anyway.
I can't be arsed doing them all anymore - there are some (probably lots!) that would really be a really grim day out.
The best are amazing though. I think I'd be happy with doing about half of them. I've been up around 100 mountains with the bike and they're always the standout rides of the year, whether you have an amazing 40 minute descent that tries every element of your riding skill or whether you're pushing down a bog for an hour and a half.
All my favourites are in here, but I'd agree with him that Binnean Mor is something special-
https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/2010-2019-a-decade-in-mountains/
Some are really shite on foot so lugging a boik around as well isn't going to improve things any. In fact, it'll probly spoil the ridgey/sporty ones...
Just seems entirely pointless
Surely setting out to do all the Munro's in any way is just as pointless..?
Good luck to them but I dont see the point for most hills taking a bike up, its hard enough walking up
I see he has realised that it’s been done before. Met him in Glencoe a few years ago and he was adamant he would be the 1st to cycle the Munro’s. Fair play can’t see the point in carrying a bike up some but the worthwhile ones then definitely.
Surely setting out to do all the Munro’s in any way is just as pointless..?
This (Munroist No. 4721)
Bloody show off compleators
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Yep
#2926
Interesting...of the 7 people I know who've done them only 1 is on the SMC list
Surely setting out to do all the Munro’s in any way is just as pointless..?
Well in that way everything is pointless. But to make a it worse by carting a bike around with you on some of the hills is pointless. The Cullin ridge for example is a fantastic route to do in a day. Carrying a bike along it would ruin it.
For that be better getting a kids balance bike and strap it to your rucksack if you really must "bike" all the munros.
The Cullin ridge for example is a fantastic route to do in a day. Carrying a bike along it would ruin it.
I know a bloke who donkeys years ago did the Snowdon Horseshoe with a CX bike.
I've never biked a Munro.
Can anyone nominate a beginner Munro?
Biggest mountain I've ridden was Cadair Idris.
I dragged my bike up while a couple of friends walked it. It started raining as we got to the plateau so I didn't see a thing! Enjoyed the descent though.
Mount Keen is the obvious answer if you live in the east. Best down anti clockwise in my opinion. Beinn A Bhuird from the south is another easy one on a bike.
Glas Tulaichan is just a Landy Track all the way to the top
Ben Macduibh is a popular choice too.
Carn an T-Sagairt Mor is a decent push to the summit but the decent into Glen Callater is good.
I know a bloke who donkeys years ago did the Snowdon Horseshoe with a CX bike.
How much of it did he actually ride? 25% ?
Can anyone nominate a beginner Munro?
MullachClach a' Bhlair and Sgor Gaoith - you can pedal all the way to the top of MullachClach a' Bhlair then ride over the plateau to Sgor Gaoith. The trail down is all rideable. Two munros for the price of one
Cheers for those.
Something to give a try once lockdown is over
We’re a right bunch of grumpy old beggars today aren’t we?
One moment it’s complaining that there’s hardly any mountains in mountain biking anymore and the next it’s ‘don’t see the point in going up mountains,’, ‘waste of time’ and ‘he won’t enjoy it’ when someone does.
If he’s having fun and doing no harm then fair play to the chap, I’d love to have enough (any) free time to walk and ride up/in some mountains.
Surely setting out to do all the Munro’s in any way is just as pointless..?
Aye, agreed. #4715 👍
Can anyone nominate a beginner Munro?
Ben Chonzie.
Easiest Munro in the land on a bike. Estate access track to 75% of the way. Summit ridge totally rideable. 13 Year olds enjoy it.
Yeah, Gairloch resident Paul Tattersall did them all back in the 1980s, bike was taken apart and strapped to his rucksack for a lot of them. Bear in mind what bikes were like back then. He's still a fit guy: he's run the Cuillin ridge along AND back in something like seven hours Slig-Slig.
Cairngorm is a decent Munro to ride.
How much of it did he actually ride? 25% ?
Probably just the bit from Llyn Llydaw back to Pen y Pass.
There are bits where you could ride along some of it but it does seems like a thankless crazy way to do the horseshoe.
Mind you I've seen allsorts up there including some firemen in full kit doing Crib Goch accompanying Welephant (the elephant fireman mascot). It was for charity though
