An amazing live band and so sad that Tim is not with us anymore

Vinyl night so I’m listening to Sea Green Spiral by Salad from Atlantis

I've discovered two new artists recently. One will be old news Firstly: Orla Gartland - "Kiss ur face forever" Next: Maximo Park - "Our Velocity" Helen and I went to see the Rock Orchestra in Torquay a week or so back, I thoroughly recommend them, Ramsteins "Du hast:" o...

Any daaarn saaaarf lads or lasses fancy a Dartmoor winter bivy?

Fitted it this weekend. That was hell! Took me ages to route the cable through the frame. Ended up with a bolt on a bit of string then a massive jiggle session to get it down to the BB then up the seattube. I am well proud of the grommet I 3D printed and fitted into a hole I made in the blanking pla...

A nice new BrandX dropper post

Expect much swearing this weekend as I attempt my first ever internal cable routing

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 7:54 pm

Hope he or Stu don't get offended

I'm possibly impossible to offend Shaf

<lights fire on heathland then Instagrams self whilst wearing R&pha pants>

riderdown wrote: ↑Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:59 pm

very enjoyable breakfast with a view instead!

Extra points for black pudding, lost them however with the use of generic brown sauce rather than HP....

Yeah but she regained them with wholemeal rolls

Thanks. It’s for a Canyon Exceed so I’ll look into cable routing. Pretty sure it can go internal. The Brand X looks a good bet as not too much cash

I went riding on Dartmoor today where there is some proper steep stuff.I realised that I’m old and scared now and could do with a bar controlled dropper. But I have no idea about what’s good and also what, if anything, can work well with a rear bag. Any advice (apart from MTFU)?

Cheery Friday here as my Cambridge Audio A1 amp has arrived and I can go turntable shopping at the w/e Oooooo, what are you looking at demoing...? Very happy with my recent Rega Planar 3 50th Anniversary purchase. I'm a bit skint so looking at a Denon DP29F. My amp does not have the phono module an...

Pretty cheery seeing as it's my 64th birthday, just back from a 2 hour recce ride around the course of the mountain bike race I'm participating in on Sunday. It starts about 200m from home and the local trail fairies have been very busy clearing miles of single track in the forest that surrounds th...

At a complete tangent. Anyone fancy a 2014 route reunion ride? 7 years have completely dulled the memory and I found myself thinking about riding it again. It will be at least me and Stu (on the shopper)

Edit: It’s 9
Edit 2: How did I ever get a degree in maths?

A replacement cat flap so Jan Åga can finally get in the house

I drive through a load of 20 zones in Scotland over the past few days. I slowed down to about 24 probs maybe a bit less. So worked in my case as I’d maybe have not killed a child in front of my car. Without the sign I’d have done 34. TBH the speed felt painfully slow but then I’m in a gurt big metal...

Getting very cross when I got stuck in a fence around a pheasant enclosure towards the end of the 2014 edition. I was close to 24 hours and didn’t have the time to faff about in a fence! Eventually finished (my favourite version) in about 25 hours. Thought I might get lynched for that - I'd checked...

At about K170 I decided I wouldn't take the left turn for the bonus final loop on the 300, being in something of a bad mood at that point. When I got there, in the sunshine, it was easy to do (A brief chat with John Allan and his mate helped!) although as a sting in the tail, it scored highly.... I...

Saw New Order last night and dodging the BB200 with a week in Scotland so cheery here

I've got a crude map renderer up and running (no it is not sweary just basic). Does anyone care these days if the road data is Openstreetmap as opposed to Ordnance Survey? Reason I ask is that my previous maps used OS data for the road network but it's easier to make maps from OSM data? If no one re...

Just read Jenny Grahams book on her RTW record. Overall a good read (although wait for the paperback version next year as its only £10.) but chaotic writing in parts which actually was a reflection of the ride so in context. Looks like she suffered horribly and took a long time to recover physicall...

I highly recommend TT maps as the guy does an amazing job maintaining them. The main differences between mine are that I use OS data rather than OSM (apart from rights of way) and also burnt in bothies and ITT routes.

Sorry but I lost my previous build for this and am painstakingly rebuilding it with new OS data and python scripts. It’s really quite complex and I’m dead busy with work. I promise it’s before learning portuguese on the list, just can’t say exactly when

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Sat Sep 30, 2023 7:18 pm

And a nice little sting in the tail

That was referred to as a 'test of character' by someone known for his swearing

So glad I have an excuse this year

Reg we were as shocked as you.It’s great seeing all the dates punks walking round town. Tempted to reinstate the old mohican

Cheery here, off to see Public Image Ltd later

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