May I suggest the reader draws inspiration from the monthly RegRides, documented herewithin?
It provides plenty of suggestions for riders of a more civilised persuasion
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- Mon Nov 20, 2023 7:46 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Easy / Shorter BP events
- Replies: 7
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- Mon Nov 20, 2023 5:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Are you analogue?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 22033
Re: Are you analogue?
Cheers!
Do I get extra points for using a Karrimat and Buffalo bag for winter bivis, too?
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 2:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Are you analogue?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 22033
Re: Are you analogue?
I'm also a bit fed up of the increasing rise in sprocket numbers with a need to go to electronic shifting to make 12 speed work. Hence use of one sprocket! 3x7 (22/32/42 & 11-32 on 26" wheels) gives me all the range I need. Any lower and I'd be too slow to stay upright :grin: . Just gone b...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 1:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Are you analogue?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 22033
Re: Are you analogue?
Perfection comes from removing complexity, etc. "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Going *slightly* off-tangent - the recommended service interval of many suspension forks and shocks wouldn...
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 1:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Are you analogue?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 22033
Re: Are you analogue?
I am also on the look out for a Series III Land Rover to embrace a more simple way of motoring (simple means sh1t and unreliable, but with soul) Analogue Land Rovers are currently very overpriced and, as you say, corroded and unreliable :sad: . If you're looking for some minimalist, classic British...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 10:20 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Are you analogue?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 22033
Re: Are you analogue?
Given my age (32) and my job (web development) I would say I am unusually ‘analogue’. He says, typing this on his phone and wearing a smartwatch. I think peak analogue/manual was intentionally buying a second hand push mower and having to take it apart and sharpen the blade, instead of an electric ...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 12:54 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
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Re: Todays ride
Well, this weekend's really. My stepson's first cycle/camp/bivi/motorsport trip and most definitely not the sort of things he learned on DofE Gold :grin: . Friday : train to Penrith; cycle to Keswick for lunch, then ride to Borrowdale YHA to camp. £10 per person camping: £12 for 2 pints of beer (wha...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 9:40 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 202098
- Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:01 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 202098
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
"Wyld Stallyns"...very subtle
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 202098
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Managed to survive my night with "Hurricane Reg" :-bd . It was indeed a stellar bivi spot (but could so easily have been a "Stella" bivi spot :???: ). Good job we packed the Halloween costumes :YMDEVIL: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53306991779_87ae4705a9_z.jpg ... yes she ...
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:17 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Winter Bivvy?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 40414
Re: Winter Bivvy?
Glad to be of service .
- Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Winter Event entries now open.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 15740
Re: Winter Event entries now open.
Still, Stu's probably laughing his head off 'cos it's probably nowt to do with our power grid :smile: . Indeed...my money's on politics, landed gentry, the disenfranchised underclass, a distinct lack of energy supply, or quite simply tussocks so huge you wish you had more power to overcome them :wi...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
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Re: Todays ride
Same route as yesterday, but with more sunshine .
Riding along Bulbarrow ridge gave me a lovely view of several small cloud inversions across Blackmore Vale .
Back to Beds today to prepare for "Storm Reg" on Thursday
Riding along Bulbarrow ridge gave me a lovely view of several small cloud inversions across Blackmore Vale .
Back to Beds today to prepare for "Storm Reg" on Thursday
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:56 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 202098
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 202098
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:56 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Winter Bivvy?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 40414
Re: Winter Bivvy?
Oh no you're not!
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:38 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 202098
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
It's nights like this that remind my why bivvy bags are not for me. I Well done for making the effort :-bd . Bivis can be a bit of a chore sometimes. I've found the simple stuff like getting the stove on and a tot of Bailey's in the coffee, instead of milk, usually perks me up for the ride home in ...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:51 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
- Views: 651254
Re: Todays ride
Dorset. Last night's BIBLICAL :shock: rainfall on Bulbarrow created the essentials for an hour of good, splashy fun on the C2WFH this morning :-bd on the tried-and-tested "Airman's Loop". https://maps.app.goo.gl/s8pETg2kXCZMd4Pr9 Start from Okeford Hill; head for the WW2 memorial; a slithe...
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 3:11 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Winter Bivvy?
- Replies: 53
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- Sat Oct 28, 2023 8:07 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3992
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Earlier this week discovered the cup-n-cone bearings in the skip bike were worn out :| . Friday - new wheel with sealed bearings delivered by my LBS :-bd . I look forward to wearing these ones out, too :lol: . Also: the thumbies I fitted last week to the P7 have been ace. No more faffing with precis...
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:33 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
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Re: Todays ride
Excellent stuff, Reg.
Gritty urban realism is underrated .
Gritty urban realism is underrated .
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: First attempt...
- Replies: 9
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Re: First attempt...
Good stuff :-bd . When it comes to shelter, think like a tramp. Leave the tent at home and use whatever shelter you can find that's provided by nature or man-made (possibly by recce-ing during a previous ride :wink: ). Such as: beneath the canopy of dense fir trees; under a cricket pavilion porch; b...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
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Re: Wildlife
Blimey Lu, sounds epic. Glad you're back safe and sound.
Keep losing your glasses as often as you do and eventually you'll start finding them again.
("Blimmin' pensioners, coming over here, leaving their spectacles lying around all over the place...grumble grumble")
Keep losing your glasses as often as you do and eventually you'll start finding them again.
("Blimmin' pensioners, coming over here, leaving their spectacles lying around all over the place...grumble grumble")
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:43 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5196
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:40 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5196
Re: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
I was sure the UCI had standards for fording, proscribed in the grovelly bike bit of their ever evolving regs, so I checked, and indeed they do. When fording, to oount as a ford and therefore grant UCI Ford Points in an affiliated race,, the ford must be 5cm above the rim of a 700c bicycling device...