The Capital Trail - 240km and 5200m ascent in 24 hours!
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Back in January, Janey and Fi set out on an attempt to ride the Capital Trail in one push - a 240km bike packing route around Edinburgh, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders, normally tackled over three steady days. With 5200m of climbing and 17 hours of darkness coupled with winter conditions under tyre, they certainly had their work cut out.
Give the video a watch to find out how they got on...
Great film, and great effort riding it in winter conditions. Nice to see the Capital Trail inspiring such adventures!
Can't wait to finally ride Scotland...thanks for the video!
Nice video folks. Good effort in winter!
Great film and fantastic effort from both of you. Now inspired to ride capital trail in a over but not in Winter.
Congrats
This looks amazing! I would love to bikepack this on my juliana joplin. FYI went to Innerleithen Feb 2020 ( right before it all started). Fell in love with the mtn biking ( although you had a blizzard so a fat bike would have been better choice). That was also when I discovered Findra mtn biking shorts!!!! and of course Peebles st. cafe!!
Well done, amazing accomplishment. Not sure I could do that on an E-MTB.
Long time in the saddle! I would be interested in a video on your kit, what you needed for food and nutrition. Where you get your water and how not to get a sore bum. Also, how do you keep your lights charged?
Haha, I guess not getting a sore bum is making sure you have a saddle that fits well. We also use Rapha bibs which are the best we've found out there - didn't have any issues but have had lots of problems in the past!
For food, generally just eating more than you think you need to if it's your first time on something big is the way to go. I ate a mix of homemade rice balls with nuts/seeds/fruit in them, mix of trail bars and some Haribo. Eating small amounts often, generally every 30 minutes - you do need to carry a lot.
Water was much more challenging as nothing was open during the night. We stocked up in shops during the day, drank lots at Portobello, then had to do the remaining 13 hours on just 1litre of water each - to be honest it wasn't ideal.
As for lights - carry extra batteries. We each had 1 x Hope R2i and 1 x Hope R4+. For the R4+ we had one 4 cell battery and a spare 2 cell battery in our packs. We ran one light on the bar on the minimum setting the entire time, and swapped them out when they went flat. The hope lights run for a surprisingly long time when they're flashing red.
Will do our best to share some content of kit etc.
Cheers, Janey