Thanks nick - payment sent

Yes please to the cages, if they haven't already gone. Pm on its way

Irritating eh?! Apart from the sizing, I don't mind the fit (got quite a short back) but hey ho.

Just disappeared down a Google rabbit hole that led me via the cycle2charge site back here to bbb and a 2015 blog review of the same. Looks like a very capable alternative to the headset top cap variety of charger, but for 70 euros.

pistonbroke wrote:Save yourself about £100 and google kemo m172n and buy from Conrad, I've got 2, 1 of which is 7 years old and works flawlessly.

Nice one! I'll check that now...

Hadn't spotted them. Look very interesting. Anyone know whether they can be used with an edelux lamp? Thanks for the heads up!

I'm on the lookout for a dynamo usb charger for my new build and am a little baffled by the variety of options. I want something simple and reasonably water resistant that gives good reliable charge and will bump up a power pack while I'm riding during the day (without lights) to charge garmin and p...

Assuming you've got a pc, I'm pretty sure you can generate and export a gpx file to your 810 and possibly the etrex using a USB cable.

I mainly use it on a pc, mostly for road, admittedly. There are quite a few mapping overlays, including cycle osm, and the routes I've plotted have been very accurate, including Spain and France. It gives you several routing options, from mtb to fast road riding, and picks the optimal route accordin...

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Thanks very much - have just ordered the same and bookmarked the website with the gpx.

I can vouch for exactly the same process with komoot and the garmin 820. Also easy to make changes to route on the fly using your phone and then ping updated route across to head unit (Internet access permitting).

Sorry to hijack thread, but interested in where you got a copy of the map for the route from? I've had a bit of a Google and not unearthed anything yet, but was hoping to do it at a similar time of the year. Ta.

Wish I could claim to have found the deal, but someone posted a link to it on the bargains page here, so thanks to whoever that was! Mine turned up today, a day ahead of schedule, and looks very nice on first inspection. At 183cm, I'm bang on the height limit, but figured I'd take a chance on that v...

Good spot! Thank you very much. Sure when I looked the other day they were out of stock...

Thanks for all the feedback folks. in the end, I went with my heart rather than head (possibly), and plumped for the MH. Yet to arrive, but I'll update once it does. As to the previous two posts, I think the predecessor to the Phantom Spark (which is suffixed 28) was the Phantom 32 - reviews suggest...

As title, I'm after a pair of midges in black to go on the back of a tandem. Std or 31.8 clap is fine. TIA

Interested in the sram cassette and chain - email on its way.

I got a very good deal on an XXL shakedry in the rather fetching grey and red. Only problem is its a bit too big for my 42" chest - the reviews I read led me to believe they come up small, but this one seems pretty true to size and more suitable for a 44-46. On the massive off chance that one o...

Thanks James, I'll check the fb page out. And it was the col de lombardi route that I was eyeing up. And thanks for the heads up re the cafe de Cycliste. There's a hotel 4k from the airport that will babysit a bag of any size for 34 euros a week and that may well be the one I go for.

redefined_cycles wrote:If ypu do get the phantom. Dont forget to gice us the opportunity to the Alpkit one

Understood!

Delighted to have a place (thanks James) and interested to hear what people have done /plan to do regarding transport. It fits in better with my work schedule to go out a bit early, rather than having extra travel after the event, so I was thinking of flying to Nice and stashing my bike bag there, r...

Thanks folks. I must admit I'd thought that the bag getting wet at some point was a bit of an inevitability with UK bivvying. And thanks for the comments on the phantom - I'm 6ft so it's good to know it'd be long enough.

Having finally got together the money to buy one of the heavily reduced mountain hardwear phantom spark down bags from rockandrun (300 down to 150), I've been offered a lightly used alpkit pipedream 400 for £100. The alpkit is the one I'd been set on for a while, until I saw the mh deal. They both s...

Hi there. Should be able to squeeze you in. I'm driving up from seaford on the Saturday morning, picking a mate and his bike up from a train station somewhere en route. There are a few bits to iron out, but put me down as 90% good for it! Fab, thanks a lot. I didn't want to have to rely on our supe...

Pmed re seatpost