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- Fri Dec 01, 2017 10:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11458
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- Fri Nov 24, 2017 1:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Black Friday deals, post them here
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8835
Re: Black Friday deals, post them here
Anker Power Banks are 25% off on Amazon today.
- Wed Nov 22, 2017 4:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Christmas / present / ideas ... sorry.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3737
Re: Christmas / present / ideas ... sorry.
Our family sidestepped the issue in an attempt to collectively save money since it was getting silly - no-one buys presents for the adults any more, we just buy stuff for the various children (that still leaves 6 kids to buy presents for)
- Tue Nov 21, 2017 11:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Musings on May 2018
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3771
Re: Musings on May 2018
I am giving this serious consideration. Easy on dates. Although I do have one real concern, I hate eggs (and I am a veggie too) My missus is veggie and and she had quite a few issues a few years back when she did part of the Camino: Most things are not marked veggie and when buying cooked food you ...
- Sat Nov 18, 2017 8:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Winter reading recommendations?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12905
Re: Winter reading recommendations?
No, Guy Pearce - he’s the father in the group that Vigo’s son ends up withrestlessnative wrote:PaulB2 wrote:The look that Guy Pierce gives at the end of the film .
err Vigo Mortenssen?
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 4:24 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Winter reading recommendations?
- Replies: 77
- Views: 12905
Re: Winter reading recommendations?
I remember the Road as being relentlessly brutal and with very little extraneous content. It wasn't an easy read but it had an uplifting end if you chose to interpret it that way. The look that Guy Pierce gives at the end of the film made the ending a bit more ambiguous for me. The Passage while als...
- Fri Nov 17, 2017 10:26 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The Official "Post Your Bike" Picture Thread!!!
- Replies: 98
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Re: The Official "Post Your Bike" Picture Thread!!!
As a bikepacker, you should know not to get your longitudes and latitudes mixed upBurko73 wrote:That latitude looks like it’s running 29 x 3” tyres. Thought that yr they didn’t have clearance for that size tyre? It’s a 2016 right?
- Sat Nov 11, 2017 1:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Black Friday 2017
- Replies: 35
- Views: 8149
Re: Black Friday 2017
Most people in IT are wary about them because most of them are easy to hack. I think there was an article on Ars Technica about a bored developer who whiled away an otherwise boring evening in a Hotel by working out how to turn the lights on or off and the heating up and down in every room through t...
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 6:17 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Beware of the lynx in Ceredigion ... but mostly snipers.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 7577
- Tue Nov 07, 2017 2:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Entries open on the... some time in November.
- Replies: 105
- Views: 17721
Re: Entries open on the... some time in November.
Not a day over seventy!Bearbonesnorm wrote:How old do you b'tards think I am?I was looking closely to spot Stu in his photo though.
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Medium sized seat bags
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3004
Re: Medium sized seat bags
I use a wildcat tiger wayfarer with the 6L tapered dry bag. Not cheap but as long as I remembered to cinch it tightly it was rock solid and I barely noticed it while riding.
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 12:33 pm
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: words for travel lovers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4287
Re: words for travel lovers
That line of thought leads to "Zen and the Art of Tussock Hopping"
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 11:16 am
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: words for travel lovers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4287
Re: words for travel lovers
Perhaps it's the route to enlightenmentRIP wrote:(Er shouldn't this be in 'Banter', unless there's a subliminal route described in the OP).
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:53 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Buying gear from UK
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2154
Re: Buying gear from UK
I think I only got stung once in the 8 years I lived there for custom charges - that said I left about 8 years ago so things might have changed.
- Sat Oct 07, 2017 9:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Heated Grips
- Replies: 20
- Views: 5807
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 9:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This Is Not A Tour - new Audax events in memory of Mike Hall
- Replies: 269
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Re: This Is Not A Tour - new Audax events in memory of Mike
Any route that contains a section called the Staircase is vaguely worryingTaylor wrote:I've gone for B, only because I've ridden most of the other two 100's. At least half of B is new to me.PaulB2 wrote:I've not done 100k for a decade, which of the 3 routes looks the easiest to people that know the terrain?
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 5:24 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This Is Not A Tour - new Audax events in memory of Mike Hall
- Replies: 269
- Views: 78433
Re: This Is Not A Tour - new Audax events in memory of Mike
I've not done 100k for a decade, which of the 3 routes looks the easiest to people that know the terrain? IMO B or C would be the nicer rides but C doesn't take in the Staircase and has less climbing. At 1800m, it's almost flat :wink: Considering that that's 6 times my usual amount of climbing in a...
- Sun Oct 01, 2017 3:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This Is Not A Tour - new Audax events in memory of Mike Hall
- Replies: 269
- Views: 78433
Re: This Is Not A Tour - new Audax events in memory of Mike
I've not done 100k for a decade, which of the 3 routes looks the easiest to people that know the terrain?
- Wed Sep 27, 2017 11:08 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: OT question for the hive mind.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 5335
Re: OT question for the hive mind.
I believe my reenactment group has used some form of gunpowder impregnated material (sheep's fleece?) wrapped around the top of the shaft. Doing that generally needs a gunpowder license though (and strictly speaking so does loosing the arrow)
- Mon Sep 25, 2017 1:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fear of a flat earth.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5683
Re: Fear of a flat earth.
I really miss hills
- Mon Sep 25, 2017 10:45 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The new shand
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3309
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 8:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sonder Colibri
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2611
Re: Sonder Colibri
I'm guessing they released the copy early since it's both an endurance road racer and a trail hard tail while having clearance for 30mm tyres in one place and 28mm in another. Free is nice though
- Wed Sep 20, 2017 6:24 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Where to go at Christmas
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3020
Re: Where to go at Christmas
You should get sent to Coventry for that one
- Thu Sep 14, 2017 11:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Alpkit site
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1348
Re: Alpkit site
It looks like a fairly standard bootstrap / jquery site that's using a video plugin that isn't compatible with older browsers - that causes a cascade of javascript errors. Is it an old tablet?
- Tue Sep 12, 2017 4:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Genesis "Fugio"....
- Replies: 34
- Views: 13804
Re: Genesis "Fugio"....
It's working fine for me...Mariner wrote:Is the Genesis website substandard at present?
When I open it there is a large Genesis logo over the screen and none of the links work.