Technically I'd say no, but I'm giving them a pass as a) CyclingUK/CTC are the national cycling organisation as far as I'm concerned, and b) it was a Steve Behr piece which makes for a nice blast from the MTB past.

Johnallan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:05 pm … caught the sunrise in the Forest of Bowland and arrived in Morecambe at 7am.

Top effort, John!

Coincidentlly, I was taking in the sunrise in the Forest of Bowland too, en route to family for Easter.

A cheery end to an almost month's long angst with a lesson learned: don't touch what you don't understand. Early in February I looked to spend an afternoon playing with and learning some machine learning/natural language processing nonsense. I found a demo tutorial using a service that had a free tr...

Osprey Pr0n!

They're back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boqK3DvnpuI

ton wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:12 pm some of the other options are pretty crap.

I liked Komoot suggesting Garburn Pass as 'bike touring' friendly and 'suitable for all skill levels'. That's gonna be a rude awakening for someone.

I use cycle.travel and think it's very decent. Looks like a one-man-band (polish guy) entering a very crowded market. I use cycle.travel sometimes too. That's also a one-man-band as I understand it. It also has the best loading gif around … https://i.imgur.com/gWz4PZw.gif To be honest, I find all o...

Does anyone have any experience using Tarmacs? https://tarmacs.app/routes/edit/new It seems to have some nice bikepacking-relevant features including showing potable water sources and shelters, as well as being able to tinker with the surface and terrain you're after. I've not checked their business...

I'm sure everyone who rode last years BB200 will be well aware of how unsuitable a track used by 4x4 and off road motorbikes can be for cycling on :wink: Oh that's just bloody great, Stu: My therapy sessions were about to end and now I'm back to square one. You weren't there, man … you weren't there!

This has been like a week's plot line on The Archers, nicely finishing in time for the Sunday omnibus edition. Good work Shaf, it's been both entertaining and educational!

Nice1 Hyppy. Nice tap work you got going there. What cutting oil you using :grin: Err … likely a no-no to you proper mechanics but as a one off job (and being only a bottle boss isn't mission-critical) I didn't think it worth buying anything special so just a blast of GT85! 😞 Hope the car's back on...

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:36 pm That said stainless bottle cage bolts corrosion welded into ally frames can be much harder as there is less to hack away at!

And there's your occasional reminder to go loosen and retighten all the bolts! Far easier alloy bolts and steel frame but still … 

I'll be honest Stu. At the time I only had £150 to my name for the week. It's not that it seemed too expensive, but rather daylight robbery. I did'nt tell the chap he was taking the p, byt rather that I couldn't afford... Since then I think I've spent £21 + £8 in drill bits of which at least 80% ar...

I know some of you are riding in the Dales Divide group start. I'm not, but I did ride the first ~45km and last ~50km of it on Sunday so thought I'd report back: It's filthy! If you know the route, there's a fair bit of road, but where there could be mud there was mud, and the forecast doesn't look ...

I run a Ratio Tech cage on a Rival mech to handle a 52 cassette, but have left that 11 speed rather than upping to 12 by switching out the shifters innards. Can thoroughly recommend! I'm not sure I follow what you're looking to achieve though with the parts list you mention needing. Are you looking ...

You can get customised Lightbicycle wheelsets with rims of your choice … +1 for Light Bicyle as a brand. As a related warning though: I built up a set of their AR46's which I bought without holes drilled in the rim bed to save needing rim tape. Lacing those up was perhaps the single worst bicycle-r...

Thanks all for the suggestions. A doubt i have is if 25mm (internal width) rims would be more appropriate for the riding I do, or if I should just go with bombproof 30mm wheels (which would probably be too big for 45mm tyres). Any heavy-handed person out there riding 25mm rims? 30mm seems to be the...

- specialist wheel builder (e.g. wheelsmith): plenty of choice on hubs and rim width. About 1000£ with hope hubs Personally, I'd go with this option, Valerio. There's nowt really wrong with the others (although I've some really sloppily made Hunts) but you're likely to get a more personalised set u...

A decent set of wheels needn't cost that much and as with all bike stuff there's diminishing returns on what you pay. Between my bikes I think I've perhaps a dozen sets of wheels at present, plus a couple of stray dynamo front-only, that are a mix of ones I've built myself, 'artisan' wheelbuilder-ma...

I'm sure his name is out there on the interwebs somewhere, but we still laugh at the bloke who attempted to beat (at the time) Paul Teirney's record for running the Wainwrights, and was fuelling this on protein cookies alone. If I recall correctly, he lost his waterproofs in a gale and called it off...

riderdown wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:59 pm …  with nothing for that community.

Not nothing: We got ~400 metres of pavement through the village in exchange for the local wind farm.

One for the other weekend's Winter Jennriders. Here's what you could have won … 

Kinda knew that this was on its way but bigger than I thought it was gonna be: All the Salsa bargains at Lyon: https://www.lyonequipment.com/bikes

I'm a bit of a wind farm enthusiast, taking in our two local ones—stuck between the Lakes and the Dales—regularly on rides, but understand they're divisive. I also think we're kinda lucky in that they're small farms of only 5 and 6 turbines respectively so perhaps not as overwhelming to the landscap...

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:32 pm I think my maximum immersion is a copd shower for a few mins.

My almost 80 y/o mother gets annoyed with herself if she's in the shower long enough for the hot water to reach the showerhead. I've no idea if this makes her quicker on her omafiets, mind.

Shaff, a blatant plug for a book 'Mrs Hyppy' commissioned/published but this may be of interest: https://www.adventurebooks.com/products/the-cold-fix (Also on AMZ obv. but better for all concerned, save for Bezos, buying direct!)