i ride singlespeed on the road all the time, where i live is very rolling with no climb longer that 3 minutes, so riding SS i can essentially do intervals, ride to start of series of climbs with a decent cadence of 85-90rpm but little resistance to warm up, get to where the climbs start, and attack ...

I find as i get older that i still have terrible wanderlust and that my mood, especially at the moment, where i have been sat in front of PC working from home now for 8 months and i only time i leave my small village is to ride bike, or to shops once a fortnight. As you get older life is all about c...

What about running it as a dinglespeed Ton if you're are worried about a climbing gear, so two rings up front and two cogs at back, as long as the combined number of teeth adds up, then you should be able to lift chain off and flick it to other combo, so 32/16 ( = 48) and 30/18 - (48). Gives you an ...

For me i ride a SS road bike in winter with 46/16 gearing and a SS gravel bike with 45c tyres and 40/16 gearing, for me it is certainly not about willy waving at all, i think it best suits certain areas of the country unless you are super strong, places with shorter climbs, ones you can get up and r...

I've done one 500km from Newcastle to London in a oner for charity, that took me 19 1/2 hours... now if you can sit on a turbo trainer saddle for that length of time then all power to you, i had to fit a Brooks B17 to turbo for rides over 2 hours when having to isolate twice! I think they have had t...

i bought a pair of MW7 last week and say that they size a little big, in that i am a 44, and bought 44 and have room for Woolie Boolie merino thick socks, fine, i really like them, very comfortable and have stood up to mud and rain so far.

I remember riding overnight on one of these charity rides, 250 miles from Manchester to London in 24 hour things, going through clubland in Coventry about 2am, when a girl clearly worse for wear and stood in the middle of the road, just looked flabbergasted and was pointing at me shouting "he's...

I really enjoy riding in the dark, i do tend to fall back on a collection of regular routes though and don't try to much that is new, i leave that for weekends, but the dark often means you have thoughts to yourself, less traffic and where i live it turns into a nature ramble, often see deer, barn o...

Living in Norfolk for 7 years now, although from Portsmouth originally, we have never had an issue with anyone local riding the footpaths near us, as many are just farm tracks and link to bridleways and byways, and without regular use, many would easily become overgrown. The only time i have had an ...

Been using one of these, very bright and best of all comes with 3 different mounts, so can easily mount to the stays below rear bag, or can clip onto the loop on back of most bags with the variety of mounts.

https://www.wiggle.co.uk/moon-nebula-rear-light-1

@inreverse that made me chuckle, as an ex-rugby prop forward of a man, with hairy XXL gloved hands, it takes me two cups of coffee to get from amoeba to any where near Neanderthal, let alone human..

Found the route for that one Hamish:

https://www.komoot.com/tour/259470882

Thanks all.

hamish that looks the job, need to try and piece together their route and see if i can find them on Strava or similar

I've ridden through it before but either to get to Belgium or France, and wandered if there were any interesting areas to explore, other than the cities themselves.. i do seem to be drawing a bit of a blank really!

I've a mate who is currently based in Hook of Holland as an engineer on a Saudi gin palace ship being built there and has suggested meeting up for a bivvy trip. He is very much a roadie but has treated himself to a BTwin gravel bike for knocking around on. Anyone know of any good off-road gravel rou...

The 19 minutes stopped was from the bikepacking.com FB page, but as you say still very impressive..

Been enjoying following it, looking at some of the images, really does look barren and some great gravel roads that follow the ridges and stay high.

Just won by Lachlan Morton, 700km in 43 1/2 hours with a total of 19 minutes stopping!!

Very sorry to hear that Dave, she certainly sounded a fighter, i enjoyed the challenge of trying to find the prettiest scenery postcard of the Norfolk coast and a slightly cheeky "seaside" old school card.

I can't comment on KS Lev. but got a Brand X from CRC in one of their sales, and so far it has been faultless, so much better than those daft Reverb. I stripped mine fine, not to service, but to add One Up components shims to reduce travel slightly, and no problems.

I'm the same, become a bit of a twitcher when it comes to birds of prey, always a sight when the buzzards and kites come over. When i used to commute to work at 6am, often used to have barn owl that would follow me for a bit and would always break off at the same field boundary, as if that was the e...

I'm lucky really most rides close to me in North Norfolk i will see a lot of Red Kites and usually a Buzzard, then as evenings draw in, a lot of barn and other owls. Strangely i was riding near Wells next the Sea a few weeks ago where i am friendly with the wardens (having been found sleeping in a h...

Dirt bags bag sold too..

Revelate Shrew and Restrap straps sold.

Psling - Dirtbags bag is yours if you'd like it mate - drop me an email pauljwhitlock at gmail.com thanks

Seem to have amassed a collection of frame bags and some i've not used, went to upload pics to find i have reached max storage, so please message for images: - Brand new Apidura full frame bag - same as this one in medium (fits my 54cm Reilly spot on) - https://www.condorcycles.com/products/apidura-...