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- Sat May 25, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Brakes; mechanical or hydraulic?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 80
Re: Brakes; mechanical or hydraulic?
I've fitted / used both and both work well enough. Like James I'm a fan of BB7 and they've never caused me any grief beyond a frozen cable on very cold occasions. Cheap Shimano hydro have caused me grief with micro-leaks but maybe that's a problem of the past? I've never had any issues with Hope and...
- Wed May 22, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Has anyone rode these?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 266
Re: Has anyone rode these?
'ridden'
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Rigs of the 2024....TOR Divide
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1153
Re: Rigs of the 2024....TOR Divide
Hang on, I was expecting this but there's not a single one in that lot
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: One less place to get a brew.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 237
- Tue May 14, 2024 8:04 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1497
Re: Missing the point?
adventure playgrounds Perhaps caused more broken wrists and lost teeth than anything else :wink: Which begs the question, if you’re following a GPX, especially if a GPX someone else has made for you, is it an adventure in the pure sense of adventure? A good point Jack and certainly valid when you t...
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1497
Re: Missing the point?
But I'm really not sure why anyone would be bothered by this? If it encourages people to get onto bikes and out into the countryside then surely that's a good thing. There's already enough gatekeeping, elitism, tribalism and snobbery in cycling which discourages the average person from bothering. I...
- Fri May 10, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4035
- Views: 540626
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I've just serviced my Buell, so will apologise now for any poor weather that may arrive over the weekend.
- Wed May 08, 2024 8:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT lost and found
- Replies: 0
- Views: 130
WRT lost and found
Not much this year but I do have ...
1/ A pair of sunglasses with red / orange lenses and black frames.
2/ A lovely water bottle with what I think are rainbows on.
Get in touch if you'd like either back.
1/ A pair of sunglasses with red / orange lenses and black frames.
2/ A lovely water bottle with what I think are rainbows on.
Get in touch if you'd like either back.
- Wed May 08, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Mad quilt idea, perhaps!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 210
Re: Mad quilt idea, perhaps!
I don't think you're the first to think of that Bill, so I'm fairly sure it'd work.
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:29 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT 24 thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 460
Re: WRT 24 thanks
As we're doing thank yous ... due to the efforts of all involved the Air Ambulance is better off to the tune of £2848 this morning. Riders - who continue to turn up even after 16 years. No riders, then it doesn't happen. Sponsors - new and old. Thank you for providing me with the opportunity to take...
- Wed May 08, 2024 6:50 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sorted
- Replies: 6
- Views: 274
Re: Spot Tracker Anyone Please?
I've a brand new Gen 1 you can have but you'd need to register it etc. You'd be welcome to it.
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1497
Re: Missing the point?
Really, now I'm surprisedbut am a bit surprised to see this come from your quill.
- Tue May 07, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Today was bike-washing day..
- Replies: 2
- Views: 169
Re: Today was bike-washing day..
Your lad better Lu?
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT 24 thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 460
Re: WRT 24 thanks
Very glad someone made the effort for that one James - I belief the rewards justified that effort
- Tue May 07, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1497
Re: Missing the point?
They believed a good adventure should be “difficult without being agonising, dangerous without being suicidal, exotic without being obscure and awkward without being impossible.” Is riding a bike on a reasonably smooth gravel road for a couple of hours really any of those things for 95% of the popu...
- Tue May 07, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1497
Re: Missing the point?
I think there's a real demand for easy off road (i.e. traffic free) trails that you could ride on what continental Europeans would call a trekking bike and what we used to call a hybrid. Many people just don't want to mix with the ever-increasing traffic on the roads, but aren't adrenaline-pumped t...
- Tue May 07, 2024 4:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1497
Re: Missing the point?
I really don't think anyone including myself is saying it's a bad thing but that the marketing bollox really ought to stop. Personally, I tend to feel that if not, then before too long many people will have little idea about what's real and what's fantasy
- Tue May 07, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend me a quilt
- Replies: 21
- Views: 745
Re: Recommend me a quilt
I believe they may also stock some Enlightened quilts too.Peak valley do synethetic ones, really like mine
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Missing the point?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1497
Missing the point?
Although a bit of me knows I shouldn't mention this, there's another part of me that simply can't resist ... sorry :wink: I spotted that Coed Y Brenin have recently opened 100km of new tracks and obviously that is a good thing if it helps get bums on saddles. From what I can tell these tracks are ma...
- Tue May 07, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend me a quilt
- Replies: 21
- Views: 745
Re: Recommend me a quilt
I've got a Cumulus 150 and 350 ... both very good and I believe the newer ones are wider which is much better. A custom Enlightened winter quilt which is also lovely but probably far too much for general UK conditions. ... and a Sierra Designs Nitro 800 which I find perfect for most of the year. It'...
- Mon May 06, 2024 7:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Water Filter
- Replies: 18
- Views: 548
Re: Water Filter
The only issue with a Sawyer or similar can be filling the bag - weirdly, if you cut the bottom of the bag off, things are far easier.
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Goldilocks - first completion.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 441
Re: Goldilocks - first completion.
That's the one Shaf - one year until it meets another, then that one and so forth.
- Sat May 04, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Goldilocks - first completion.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 441
Re: Goldilocks - first completion.
I only received the email last night Steve. I was a bit up to my ears but said I'd talk to him again after weekend, so will suggest / ask.We could do with a writeup though - I'd like to hear about it....
- Fri May 03, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Goldilocks - first completion.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 441
Goldilocks - first completion.
Congratulations to Ben Hudson on being the first person to complete Goldilocks. It took him around 6 days and 8 hours and I can't imagine it was done beneath blue skies
Sorry, forgot to mention that he was riding SS, so probably a reasonable amount of walking involved me thinks.
Sorry, forgot to mention that he was riding SS, so probably a reasonable amount of walking involved me thinks.
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What is ádventure?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1473
Re: What is ádventure?
Just an average BB trip out