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- Tue Dec 04, 2018 12:50 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Unwieldy luggage
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1957
Re: Unwieldy luggage
These are all brilliant. I too have transported a sofa by skateboard and wish it was a more common activity.
- Sun Dec 02, 2018 11:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Unwieldy luggage
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1957
Unwieldy luggage
I do not have a car but wanted a Christmas tree for my flat. Now yes they do deliver them but that is right boring so I had a better idea. I would take it on my bike. I picked up a few, trying to find the lightest and shortest, then saw one I liked so went for it anyway. It was 6ft to the tip. The b...
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:52 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 155726
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
October effort This was totally unplanned and unprepared and I thought I was going to end up missing out October altogether. A chaos filled, but mainly irrelevant backstory lead me and my brother to miss the last bus and mode of transport from Sofia to our destination of Dimitrovgrad. It was only 2p...
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 8:30 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
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Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
September BaM (yes it is October now, but I’m rubbish with months and haven’t had any WiFi) This month was odd in that bikepacking developed from a hobby into my means for survival. The first week was incredible riding the TNR. Slept in some cool places, saw some big hills, great trip. I would be qu...
- Mon Sep 24, 2018 12:16 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: FS: Sub 500g down quilt
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1364
Re: FS: Sub 500g down quilt
Not really the weather for a lightweight quilt like this, but I have been gazing longingly at them all summer. I’ll take it if still available
- Sat Sep 22, 2018 2:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Headlamps (Lockable specifically)...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2790
Re: Headlamps (Lockable specifically)...
Not necessarily lockable but my alpkit gamma has removable aaa batteries which amounts to a similar thing. Plastic casing looks like it could be used a fair bit but this would still be a faff. I’m sure there are better options out there but it’s 180 lumen output is enough to bimble by, darkness desc...
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bamboo shirts update.
- Replies: 66
- Views: 12043
Re: Bamboo shirts update.
Keen for a medium
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Torino nice who's doing it this yr
- Replies: 379
- Views: 63432
Re: Torino nice who's doing it this yr
What a trip! Start to finish it was tip top. Route, riders, rowdy descents, roadie climbs, riding my bike. Day after day it took my breath away. You may appear to really enjoy doing it James but it is proper fab so thanks for the experience. Didn’t want it to ever end, then, due to a monumental cloc...
- Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:20 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Welsh Winter Bivvy .........
- Replies: 111
- Views: 22565
Re: Welsh Winter Bivvy .........
Keen to get involved with this riding of bikes and associated activities
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 9:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Blueskylavendar eBay
- Replies: 3
- Views: 988
Re: Blueskylavendar eBay
What use have australians got for quilts? I thought it was hot over there
- Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:44 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 155726
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Board was boarded at every available opportunity. On the smooth ups a bungee chord was used to secure the frame bag and a dog walkers lead used to haul it along. Not as daft as it looked, but that isn’t hard as it looked right daft. I’ve gone from 0 to 2 bikes in the space of a day so reckon a prope...
- Mon Aug 27, 2018 11:22 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 155726
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
So I am in a bit of a sticky situation in that I didn’t have a complete working bike I could ride til I go back to Birmingham at the end of the month. Rules can be a bit boring and I gave it a good substitute. I am interested in what defines a bike. Self propelled motion? Wheels? Gliding downhill? W...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Can we have a new jersey yet?
- Replies: 234
- Views: 38600
Re: Can we have a new jersey yet?
Love a bit of cuddle bear and think it fits well on the rear pocket. Orange zombie just looks like a pumpkin to me. Is a casual orange and black feather boa on the cards?
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 5:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11458
- Views: 1989531
Re: The post man's been ...
...wouldn’t want this in any of my mealsmetalheart wrote:Some Japanese Ti porn
- Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:32 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 155726
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
7/7 This one was a bit different in that wasn't about the cycling or the sleeping in the wilderness. Yesterday afternoon eating my Falafel Mama I saw a flyer for an event in Gloucester that evening. Mix of beat box and theatre on the roof of a multi story car park. Last minute plans are my favourite...
- Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Portrait of a bikepacker - photo comp. WINNER!
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18105
Re: Portrait of a bikepacker - photo comp.
This was a main road. In Wales. In March. I was prepared to risk being uncomfortable to experience something out of the ordinary
- Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Multiday (more than 2 nights) Adventures
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2390
Re: Multiday (more than 2 nights) Adventures
I was in a similar situation with life always being too busy with stuff to do more than a few days. Just go for it. I didn’t take any more clothes but allowed the luxury of a flannel which can make you feel fresh and didn’t really use it. Getting dirty happens slowly and you get used to it. Ride you...
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:23 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 155726
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Out of Wales yeah, but I’ve got a job in the Cotswolds so am living here now Have a scout about mate and let me know if your about in September and I'll have a trundle down ,more beer and talk more bollox as on wrt Cheers Stuart Sounds grand. Have poked my head around a bit and keep seeing potentia...
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:19 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 155726
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Out of Wales yeah, but I’ve got a job in the Cotswolds so am living here now
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 11:53 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 155726
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Finally got round to going on a "proper adventure" on my adventure bike. Went to an entire different country, Scotland, for a week of grrrravel and gwwwoar. Initially it was going to be the Wild About Argyll Trail, but two days in I realised my bike could take me anywhere and the embedded ...
- Mon May 28, 2018 8:01 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11458
- Views: 1989531
Re: The post man's been ...
No pictures of lightening as it was too quick for me. I do however have the arty farty prints from the WRT including a spooky one of the Mawddach estuary as the temperature inversion rises like a sea of ghosts
- Sun May 27, 2018 7:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11458
- Views: 1989531
Re: The post man's been ...
I rushed out to the back garden. Felt like I was part of an artists impression of a music festival as the sky was lit up in fantastic ways followed by a great rumbling of thunder that wobbled my mat. Super cool! Finally had the chance to test out my tarp rigging skills in rough conditions after all ...
- Wed May 23, 2018 6:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: On the modern origins of bikepacking
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5431
Re: On the modern origins of bikepacking
Loved the article and the iPlayer link too. That video gives me some more ideas for my any bike is a bikepacking bike two-wheeled tramp trip next time I find myself stuck in London
- Sat May 19, 2018 6:15 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 155726
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Keen to try out my ultracheap (£7.35) gorilla cage alternative and make use of yet another ridiculously lovely weekend of Welsh weather, I set off. Whenever I tell anyone here I have a mountain bike here they have been like "Have you been to Coed y brenin? I hear it's amazing" "Nah I ...
- Thu May 17, 2018 8:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Footpaths
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6683
Re: Footpaths
I am not keen on the idea. How is us riding footpaths breaking that rule any different from lads on scooters ripping up our nice bridleway tracks? Yes we know how little damage we cause to paths, and our stench is merely natural, but to the rulebook rambler we are all lumped together as disturbers o...