Thanks guys

How is this so expensive, the sodding tent only cost 100 squid :(

Hi guys

This is a bit left field but my old (ish) Blacks Tent needs a new pole (3.5m), is there somewhere easy to get hold of one? It's a big heavy cheap tent I use for holidays, not expeditions, so they can be cheap and heavy!

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The last 2 nights I tried sleeping in just my synthetic jacket and legwarmers (in a bivi bag but that was just to try and keep the bugs off*) but I woke up a bit cold in the legs. I'm thinking one of those half sleeping bags might be a good solution. I had to unzip the jacket a bit! (*it's a Rab one...

Yo Getting ready to pull the trigger on one of the cumulus quilts so I emailed them to get the definitive response their reply... Hello David, thank you for your e-mail. Quilts are 77cm wide. It is the widith of the top part. When lying flat in total quilt is about 118cm wide with bottom part. Will ...

Have a good weekend everybody. Just a boring normal weekend here in NL!

The Bike Show Podcast of the event last year is what drew me to the forum.

My latest attempt at becoming an epic Woodsman - https://davekio.wordpress.com/2016/04/2 ... adventure/

As of the weekend I have and Exped AirMat which goes into a 13l Drybag on the front, into which I also put my sleeping bag, bivi bag and the shorts I sleep in. I will ad that with a lot of sleeping mats i ve found that folding them into different shapes can make them easier to pack rather than only ...

Great Western you have to book a ticket, THEN ring up the station and book the bike (though I have gotten away with it)

(Holland it's a flat Eur 6.10 to go anywhere, but not at peak times)

Ok got you.

Have to say having had a night that was close to being really unpleasant Saturday I'm reconsidering the need for a summer bag. What flipping Summer!

Brrrrrr

Thanks, my concern is not height so much as width as I have big shoulders (L-XL t-shirts) so I want to be sure I can snuggle down nicely - especially as I\m a side sleeper I have just bought an exped airmat so I can go and sleep in the tulips tonight I guess the reality is that I just need to buy on...

Norm. When the dimensions of the cumulus quilt is given as 77cm, does that mean the full width or is that with the "sides" tucked under?

I'm hoping to head out to one of these this weekend so did a bit of research. There are more in NL - https://sites.google.com/site/paalkampeerders/kaart (there are otehr, less well kept charts that suggest there are even more but it's not easy to tell. It's a tad frustrating as I'm planning on going...

Depends what you re doing on the trip obviously but my Koala is not really big enough for a short, but multi day trip. One big problem I have is that because I'm a short arse (though at 173cm I'm not THAT much of a short arse), I don't have much room in/on the frame. There was an instagram of an Ope...

The prices Ive seen look like they vaguely match Apidura pricing ~ perhaps a little more The best thing about Apidura over Alpkit however is that they have stuff in stock! I want to like Alpkit but it's taken a month to get hold of a joey and a dry bag (in a colour that isnt rancid) so i ve given mo...

True, I meant more "ultralight" overnight trips, I'm still new at this. Hoping to do a simple one this weekend which will be my...second!

The spark or the ember (the ember does tn seem to be very common in Europe)

I'm not sure I can stretch to a custom bag quite yet. Plus I think i need to do a lot more actual biking to decide what I'd need

Ah ha, well done sir!

The cumulus quilt 150 looks like the sort of thing I need...

Is sea to summit, always so much more expensive than other options? It looks like good stuff but man!

Interesting, the more I read about it it seems like a quilt might not be for me. They don't seem to be widely available out of the US yet either...

Just an FYI - our america cousins have written a review - http://www.bikepacking.com/gear/ortlieb ... ck-review/

Hi guys Another noob question sorry :oops: I was looking at quilts as in general I am a hot sleeper and so would really appreciate the venting possibilities a quilt would offer. However It occurred that in a bivi bag this could be limited anyway. Further, at the other end of the temperature scale, F...

see that says a lot eh?

Do you know when we might be able to get some ourselves? Is it days, weeks, months etc..?

Are you running them for the TD (very jealous btw) by choice or are you being "forced" to?

Thanks guys, so to put it bluntly, an apidura bag is going to be no more stable than an alpkit joey and an Airlock?

(it's not worth starting a new thread for this question so I ll use this one) Does the extra rigidness help with bags? I ask as I'm a short ass and so I don't have a lot of room in the frame for bags. Hence I need to use seat/handlebar packs a lot more. I had some issues on my first trip with the al...

The parents always took us out of camping/climbing/walking holidays in the Alps when my sister and I were nippers (and on into teenagers I suppose) and by doing things like 10 Tors I learnt how to deal with being outside carrying my own stuff, navigation etc. That said I couldnt build a shelter at a...