Snowdon ?

[Couchy]

Anyone cycled up on their ebike ? Looks like you have to get up before 10am due to a voluntary agreement so I assume an 8am start ? Any ideas on the route down rather than the path used going up ?

[weeksy]

They've tamed a lot of it recently.

[Couchy]

Looks like a 15 mile loop and 4000ft of climbing so a couple of hours or so. Still one to tick off the list.

[Rp1]

Anyone cycled up on their ebike ? Looks like you have to get up before 10am due to a voluntary agreement so I assume an 8am start ? Any ideas on the route down rather than the path used going up ?

Was just reading a post about it on FB, 1:30hrs / 2hrs up, 30 minutes down , wanted to go and do it in April but didn't happen, so im well up for doing it with you when you are ready

[Couchy]

Anyone cycled up on their ebike ? Looks like you have to get up before 10am due to a voluntary agreement so I assume an 8am start ? Any ideas on the route down rather than the path used going up ?

Was just reading a post about it on FB, 1:30hrs / 2hrs up, 30 minutes down , wanted to go and do it in April but didn't happen, so im well up for doing it with you when you are ready

I’ll sort some dates, overnight stop and set off at 8am ? Up llanberis then down rangers and telegraph ? That seems to be the route.

[Mr Moofo]

Aren’t some bits not rideable ? (Or at least using the route I recently watched it was). Lugging an e-bike would make it less fun.

[Couchy]

Aren’t some bits not rideable ? (Or at least using the route I recently watched it was). Lugging an e-bike would make it less fun.

It’s rideable up and if we pick the route careful down as well

[millemille]

Waaaaaaay back in the day, late 80's, a whole group of us from MBUK magazine and mtb racing rode up Snowdon in the dark so that we could come back down as the sun came up. Think that bikes, at the time, weren't allowed on the mountain during day light hours or some such restriction. I can't remember if it was Spring or Autumn when we did it, definitely wasn't summer.

Young and stupid and fit as a butchers dog, with Petzl headtorches and Night Sun lights on the bars, the ride and push up was a relative doddle.

We got to the top about midnight and realised it was mighty fucking cold and we hadn't brought anything close to the appropriate clothing, some us had brought - in a rare moment of foresight - those orange plastic survival bags and those literally saved our lives.

We were sheltering in the lee of the cafe on the summit, not the swanky new visitor centre but the old grotty one, and chatting and shouting and generally making loads of noise because, after all, we're on top of a fucking mountain in the middle of the night so who gives a fuck?

I'll tell you who gave a fuck. The bloke who lived in the cafe who's bedroom window we were all right outside, making noises a troop of howler monkeys would be embarrassed by.

The window gets flung open and yer man starts letting rip, calling us every name under the sun. I don't know who was more shocked and scared, him or us.

The lightweights bailed out at this, too cold and pissed off they tentatively crept down the mountain in the dark, but a hard core of us stuck it out until the sun appeared and the barrelled down and all ended up in "Pete's Eats" in Llanberis, having a go at the world famous unlimited breakfast he used to do...

[Couchy]

Lol, Petes eats is still there and we’ll be visiting

[millemille]

Lol, Petes eats is still there and we’ll be visiting

I wonder if they still do the unlimited breakfast (or maybe it was a mixed grill? In fact, thinking about it I'm beginning to believe it was a mixed grill ), it was a work of genius. If you could eat it all it was free, otherwise it was about a tenner (?) which was a lot back then.

You order it and they bring out a massive oval plate, the kind you'd normally put a whole roast turkey on, and it'd be covered in all kinds of grilled and fried meats and some chips and onion rings and the like and you'd be "wow, that's going to be a challenge but I reckon I can do it...".

But what you didn't know was they were watching you discreetly from the kitchen and every time you looked like you were making decent headway someone would walk out of the kitchen and walk past you and, without making eye contact, a side plate with a couple of lamb chops or a gammon steak or sausages would appear by your massive plate.

You'd look up, confused, and they'd just nod at you. So you had to scrape the extra meat on to your plate and get stuck in.

They'd obviously, with hindsight looking back on it now, worked out just how much food they could put in front of you and still turn a profit so they kept on bringing extra food out until either you gave up or they hit their limit and had to give it to you for free.

Ah, happy days. When you could do shit like that and not put on a single gram of weight and be crippled with acid reflux/meat sweats/constipation for days afterwards....