I've got an 11 speed on a Pro 4, with the little spacer ring fitted on the inside of the cassette.

It's looking likely I'll show up for this.

This might not directly answer the question, but I just stumbled across this epic multi fuel stove round up:

http://thenextchallenge.org/liquid-multi-fuel-stoves/

Hopefully it contains some relevant info. It looks like hours of effort went into it.

atk wrote:Hathersage or Grindleford is your best bet for a train.

Yep, Grindleford looks very handy.

I was hoping there'd be a station near the start.

Oooh, I'd missed this. I'm currently planning on doing the northern one the weekend before, but the Peak District is virtually on my doorstep so it'd be rude not to do both…

They (Pannier) may be Londoners but have had the good sense to move to Sheffield I believe. Indeed. Stefan (who runs Pannier) spends a lot of time riding in the Peak District. I met him last year at a (fantastic) weekend event he organised just outside of Hathersage, involving camping, riding, talk...

Nope, it just downloads an "image": "IMG_20160731_132224148.webp", which I can't open. Ah, that explains it. WebP is an image file format developed by Google, that's only supported by Chrome and Opera at the moment. I hadn't realised these weren't JPEGs. Perhaps @Trail-rat uploa...

Ian wrote:So am I the only person that can't see the images then...?

Bit weird. Here's a direct link to one of them. Does that work, if you click it?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/M1ZiS ... 1680-rw-no

Pogies in my jones bars are fine. Cheers Ben. I believe that there are Jones specific styles available but not sure who makes them. I went googling. There's some Jones related chat in the comments on here: http://bikepacker.com/pogies/ And Revelate seem to have over done it, though I bet they work ...

Has anybody tried pogies on a Jones bar? I'm wondering if they'd work well with the 45 degree sweep. I'll need to sort something out if I'm doing the winter bivvy. The Tuff Bag mitts look great, but I'm thinking I'd have better control of brakes and gears with full fingered gloves. Or am I over thin...

PM en route…

Nice light this morning, so I went for a quick spin in the woods…

Very interesting, cheers. I'd been thinking it was "the bigger the better" on the tyres front, so it's good to hear that 2" tyres would do the job. What about the grit wearing through your tyre though? That doesn't sound like it'd be particularly easy to avoid, regardless of what you'...

I've got a very lightly used (unmarked) pair of Woodchipper 2's that I've taken off a new bike, and was planning on putting them in the loft.

I haven't googled to see what they might be worth yet. Are you still looking?

I've only ever used my phone (with the Gaia GPS app for GPX files, and CycleStreets for road/sustrans route navigation prompts). My phone isn't waterproof, so it isn't ideal for UK bikepacking. I usually power it by leaving the screen off, in aeroplane mode, and recharging overnight from an external...

Ah, but what if I were to add whiskey?

Bearbonesnorm wrote:There's usually a Welsh version with details cobbled together by me, a northern one in the hands of Chew and Ray takes care of things north of the border ...

Sounds good – I'll keep the weekend free (and pack the aeropress).

I see there's talk of two separate outings for the December bivvy. Is there a traditional location for the northern one, or does that need suggesting/organising/etc?

JohnClimber wrote:Pack some space......

True. It's also useful for food (I often forget to leave much room for it).

That was my first visit to Bearbones HQ, and I had a cracking weekend. Cheers to Stu and Dee for everything – I'm still not quite sure how you managed to squeeze so much fun and tasty goodness out of 20 quid per head. And you're all a very friendly bunch. Thanks @benp1 for teaching me the fantastic ...

vaguely exciting – really looking forward to the next installment...