Time to get the rollers out of the loft and fit some slicks to the Stoater...

rollers seem like they might lead to further injury as well as breakages to household items when riding in to them in an uncontrolled manner trying to break but failing with 2 broken fingers ...

Goin on a speed awareness course Saturday hahaha! Shall become an excellent driver then just have a day of cx then a day of xc I think, if anyone fancying an xc ride in th dales Sunday shout

Lucky I.think.I.have managed to sort a lift home from my dad so I won't have to.try and drive. Back to the lakes totally broken as tgat seems a bad plan

Ye bag survived stays really solid , had it like that on th really rough decent in th dales a few weeks back and was ok then too! Lots of straps is th key !

also just have a couple of those massively bright cree led things ! good n bright have a couple of batteries and they run for like 5 hours on low , but you can stil see where you are going . helmet mounted aswell so you can see where you are going !

ye just give me a shout know a few good evening rides around the place

there was only one or 2 bits that i was happy that i was on my mtb not my cx bike tbh far more of the time i wanted my cx bike ! the bit down off the Forrest to hepple whitefeild was good on a mountain bike an some of the moorland above wooler was butif you stick to the main trail it was all erry cx...

Haha Ye true , its all nice enough , nothing to hard core just a bit well Yorkshire dalesy haha

Your route through th dales looks ok some tussoky stuff after ingleton if it goes where I think it does and some slightly crappy bridle way after sedbergh up through caughtly but it might have been improved since I lived in sedbergh but looks pretty good

if i know the route is going to be hilly i just put a 20t on the back instead of the usual 18t gear . slower on the road but gets you up a few more degrees of incline haha and easier on the knees on the long bikepaking rides

some easy options some hard options 115 miles 27.5 hours a little bit of sleep north bound ok so the sand stone way in 5 points would be - hilly , lots of little hills that make it feel like your never really getting anywhere - gates so many gates the type that are hard to open and close - options p...

did a version of the sand stone way at weekend (very hilly with to many gates and to much mud but kinda fun) 115 miles 27.5 hours generally . felt ok after , litle bit of bum pain and got thunder stormed all night haha but ye felt fit enough :)

will do a better write up in the other place later

i quite like my charge cooker ss frame. nice steel frame with eccentric BB for tension the chine, fairy comfortable geometry so descends rely nicely. ye real good frame ! https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpt1/v/t1.0-9/11028967_10153229391292034_3734844949542661138_n.jpg?oh=c89702e17da147...

looks good , might be cool portfolio tool (im a product designer ) for projects at work and personal portfolio stuff to ... like that you can add video links etc ... on that topik been thinking of doing a bike packing film ( i make allot of climbing films for people and have had stuff in KMF etc and...

could do an evening ride either of those days after work, if you have been fell running all day and fancy a short one could meet in ambleside at like 6 and go round loughrig etc ?

open cycle map is ok , only used it once or twice in alps and not for bike packing just for finding day loops and link ups between dh areas

my drivetrain might disagree....

all about the single speed

looks like getting "that feeling when" for this weekend on sand stone way , but weather forecast is improving so maybe i wont have to take the tarp and stove .... will see

"helmets make you safe" and by extension if you don't wear a helmet then you are being reckless though as Chris Boardman points out: wearing a helmet isn't even in the top ten improvements for cycling safety. I'm just as likely to suffer a head injury when walking down the street if I tri...

off road always why wouldn't you . feel pretty stupid if you fell off and gave your self brain damage if you wernt ! on road also always ass other people are likely to knock you off allso you can go dead fast on a road bike so potential for getting really messed up ! so again you would feel pretty s...

Hi sounds good ! So hello !

Ye we even have a dehidrator at home its dead good , parents bought it like 20 years ago as they are very outdoorsy and my mum used it for backpacking and climbin trips. its like weird round thing with shelves , works well though I have de hydrated everything from curry with rice , to baked beans , ...

Here it is in bikepacking (or should that be touring, so I guess it's a touring bike..) guise:

hehe the forks say CX on so mabe its a cross bike with flat bars so not a cross bike .... so its a notacxbike hahaha

haha epic

as i say enduro DH for middle aged people with to much money :P , spend my life overtaking them on trail centers on a full ridged single speed haha i mean i over took some guy on a nomad the other day when i had all my bike packing stuff on down the track in to clappham near inglebourough pretty tec...