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- Mon May 06, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Frame bag hydration hose solutions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 201
Re: Frame bag hydration hose solutions
Neodymium magnets might work. Likely stronger than what you’ve previously tried. I’ve not used them for this application but seems to me they might do the trick. I have a clip that uses magnets, Google magnetic hydration hose clip and they turn up in various guises. I've had a couple of the clip on...
- Sat May 04, 2024 8:00 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Frame bag hydration hose solutions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 201
Re: Frame bag hydration hose solutions
I think I follow you Phil.
- Fri May 03, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Frame bag hydration hose solutions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 201
Frame bag hydration hose solutions
I'm not a fan of carrying water on my person, or bottles, so use a bladder in a frame bag most of the time. I've never quite found the ideal way to route and attach the hose so it's accessible for drinking and not flopping around too much. For a long time I just attached it to the bar with two o-rin...
- Wed May 01, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What is ádventure?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 777
Re: What is ádventure?
Burn him!fatbikephil wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 8:01 pm I'm fairly relaxed about this one - anytime you venture away from the built environment under your own steam anything might happen = adventure.
Do we really need another pointless definition thread?
And yes, I know I could just ignore it
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bike maintenance book recommendations
- Replies: 10
- Views: 268
Re: Bike maintenance book recommendations
Another vote for Zinn. The internet is a great resource and sometimes needed for very specific things, but having a general reference in the garage which I know is reliable (rather than spending ten minutes watching Chad from Instagram fail to explain something very well) is nice. If you get the lat...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 145752
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:20 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Bum bag cover
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1784
Re: Bum bag cover
Have just stumbled across this one and it's not a bad idea. I don't see Ortlieb doing a waist pack anymore and all the rest seem to be made of materials that would wet out eventually. Some waist packs I've used in the past (I'm looking at you Batpack6!) were chronic mud catchers...I'm interested to...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 145752
Re: Wildlife
Another "badger on the way home from the pub" incident in Sheffield this week. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Badgers_Badgers.gif :lol: Ah, you have to be of a certain age/disposition :grin: Up in Deeside (Aberdeenshire). Today's haul: woodpecker (great spotted), numerous ...
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:35 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Spring clean: BB7s, arm warmers, climbing shoes, messenger bag, bladder, grips, tyres, softshell
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1462
Re: Spring clean: BB7s, arm warmers, climbing shoes, messenger bag, bladder, grips, tyres, softshell
Benji beat you by half an hour I'm afraid!
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3992
- Views: 520552
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
According to an old GPS track I found, today marks the 10th anniversary of the first time I used a bivvy bag. Of course, the obvious way to celebrate this would have been to go out for a bivvy, and I did have half a mind to, but in the end wasn't in the mood... :| In more cheery news, not going out ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bike packing full suspension frame/ bike recommendations
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1551
Re: Bike packing full suspension frame/ bike recommendations
I've a 2022 Occam and while it's pretty good for 'Lakes XC' find it a bit too much bike for longer bikepacking-type rides: I don't think I've ever done longer than ~70km on it. Fair. I've done pretty long rides on its e.g. BB200, Cairngorms Loop, but my only other option is my rigid steel Longitude...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bike packing full suspension frame/ bike recommendations
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1551
Re: Bike packing full suspension frame/ bike recommendations
I'm on an Orbea Occam TR. Bought it for similar situations and love it. 130mm travel. Carbon and alloy versions available depending on budget. There's two different travel versions in the range iirc. Newer frames look less amenable to a frame bag
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 5968
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hammock in the garden
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1923
Re: Hammock in the garden
The shallower the angle of the suspension the greater the force - in theory if your hammock was strung perfectly horizontal there'd be an infinite force acting on the wall I think you might need to check your working there Bob :wink: But it's a fair point... Although with the right fixings and appl...
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 5:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hammock in the garden
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1923
Re: Hammock in the garden
Ah, yeah that arrangement does need more space. Is there anything (e.g wall) you could attach one end to?
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hammock in the garden
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1923
Re: Hammock in the garden
I've got a hammock in the garden - it is indeed a lovely place to be on a sunny afternoon. I've put rings on the uprights of my covered deck to hang it from now, but it came with a stand of sorts: each end has two lengths of wood with an eye bolt through one end so they open out into an A-frame. The...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2195
Re: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
Probably not relevant to the OP, but I just stumbled across this relates article about a new sleeper service. Doesn't mention bikes though.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/2024 ... eat-cities
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/2024 ... eat-cities
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 1:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The next Eclipse
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2642
Re: The next Eclipse
Ha, I was looking at this yesterday too. I've got a mate who lives just outside the NE boundary of the path of totality who I've been meaning to visit...
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Exped Downmat clumping... maybe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 292
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:46 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Exped Downmat clumping... maybe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 292
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Exped Downmat clumping... maybe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 292
Exped Downmat clumping... maybe
I thought I had an issue with my Exped Downmat with the down clumping at one end of the mat... but I'm not actually sure. I can feel a soft lump all across the end of the mat where the valve is and where the chambers are linked together. I inflated in and tried to work the down, er, down and with a ...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Spring clean: BB7s, arm warmers, climbing shoes, messenger bag, bladder, grips, tyres, softshell
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1462
Re: Spring clean: BB7s, arm warmers, climbing shoes, messenger bag, bladder, grips, tyres, softshell
Sold items removed. Open to offers on what's left.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cranktank 3 vs cages on fork + smartwater bottles
- Replies: 20
- Views: 894
Re: Cranktank 3 vs cages on fork + smartwater bottles
Agree with most of the above really. Personally I use a 1.5 or 2l bladder, and that's just about enough for cooking an evening meal, morning coffee, breakfast, minimal washing up and general hydration for that time. I often use a filter, but to be honest, if I come across a tap not long before I'm g...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:26 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Spring clean: BB7s, arm warmers, climbing shoes, messenger bag, bladder, grips, tyres, softshell
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1462
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Spring clean: BB7s, arm warmers, climbing shoes, messenger bag, bladder, grips, tyres, softshell
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1462