I’ve been ruminating on what everyone is putting down there pants... That's a nice image :grin: What’s probably most important is having a healthy barse during long bouts of cycling is hygiene. Clean and air your undercarriage regularly. Clean your shorts/pants/etc regularly. Choose shorts to reduc...

Cheap and cheerful stuff available from anywhere like Boots is Conotrane, bed sore cream that's much better for pressure sores than Sudocrem and costs about £1.50 a 100ml tube.

Lazarus wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:04 pm

This time, we’ve split them into two categories: drop-bar and flat-bar bikes. Find details on more than 50 flat-bar rigs here

Drop bars to follow i assume

You read the words and didn't just look at the pictures?!

voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Wed Jun 08, 2022 2:27 pm Bicycles of the divide
https://bikepacking.com/bikes/2022-tour ... gs-part-1/

Have dropbars gone back out of fashion this year?!

Question for borah bivvy owners: regular length is billed as "up to 6ft tall". Is this about right and at 6'2" I would be well advised to go for a long length one, or if I am happy in confined spaces I might get away with a regular?

jay91 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:34 am
If you end up splitting it let me know

Me too; interested in the carbon fork if you split.

I have two options for you, one cheap and one more expensive.

The pricey one is a DT EX 471 rim (25mm internal) on a 40t Hope Pro 2 Evo hub that can come 135 QR.

The other cheap one is a well used P35 rim (30mm internal) on a QR SLX hub.

Pm if interested in either.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 1:53 pm RE bikes. I've a 10km loop in the forest here that I always thought could be used for such a thing. Entirely off-road and self-contained.

A few years in gestation?
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Gone.

God knows how long I've had this but I've found what I think is a Mk1 Spot tracker languishing in a box.

Bought or given to me second hand, never used so no idea whether it works.

Feed a fiver to the bear and I'll post it to you.

Absolutely brand spanking new TRP Spyre flat mount caliper for sale. Box unopened, comes with pads. Bought a pair to get one when single calipers were like rocking horse **** hence this was always surplus to requirements. Also have a rear mount brand new. Caliper £55 posted Mount £10 posted Both for...

I've got a DHF 2.5 and another DHF 2.3 that are very lightly used and I'm unlikely to need again.

Interested or not quite right?

"... I Had 3 Months Holiday In The Maldives / My Daughter Is Now A Doctor / I've Got a Fantastic New Job / We've Moved Into A De-laight-fully Quaint Little Place In The Lake District / I've Treated Myself To A Brand New High End Leafblower/Patioheater/Drivewayjetwasher newsletters!!!" Per...

Bought mine already, to be packaged up by the kids for me to look surprised on the 25th: Wilfa Svart electric coffee grinder; my ageing elbows have finally had enough of my Porlex hand grinder three to four times a day. Velosolo 6 bolt disc mount fixed cog; I'm going fixed single braked gravel commu...

I do most years, but with a young family I've only managed to whole 500km about 2 out of the last 5?6? years.

Road bike though, haven't got the time to do the distance off-road.

arkay wrote: ↑Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:03 am What’s the science of how they keep you warm? They’re full of flipping holes!

Air insulates.

No 9spd stuff to offer, but I'm doing the same for my son and it's proved easier to go 10spd than try and source 9spd parts. He's going to be running a Saint thumb shifter FFS!

From the site: "...gps tracking of each participant..." What other things are included in the APN entry? The tracker, idiot - I'm not wearing any lights - belt, meal... erm, think thats about it. :grin: Admittedly translated, but I took the GPS tracking to be the equivalent of the APN tra...

Back to the original point (sorry). I've had my eye on Normadicat 900km for the last couple of years which is pretty much the same thing but in Normandy (easier for me to get to than Sheffield! :roll: ) https://normandicat.com/normandicat-2022/ This year, if it had run, it was 56 euros an entry (bri...

I've got a pair of SRAM 11spd ones available if they work for you?

https://singletrackworld.com/classified ... -shifters/

(Shimano ones sold already)

For anyone that doesn't know - after just completing the entry form which is quite thorough - the APN event egen gives riders one of these m9nkey belts https://www.adifferentgear.com/product/monkeysee-harness-fluro-yellow/666 for night riding. Worth another £20 so it seems they've gone all out to e...

The checkpoints for APN21 are on the site; Chuck 'em a tenner and ride your own route based on those?

Holgateeng wrote: ↑Mon Nov 22, 2021 5:27 pm I'm sure there was a post about this not so long back but I can't find it

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