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- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3996
- Views: 524597
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Hmmm. Once again I was idly contemplating spending 10 large on a new (motor)bike the other day but I've cooled again seeing something like that...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: They have finally arrived
- Replies: 8
- Views: 527
Re: They have finally arrived
Hmmm also. I see they do a hat as well. Thinking about it though, green isn't a bad colour for overtrousers and once they have got sprayed with gunge they will look OK.
I take it it's the lightweight stuff?
I take it it's the lightweight stuff?
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 584
Re: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
:-bd Good single speed vibes too :mrgreen: I've eaten 4 energy bars in my life and that was 4 too many - they are all over priced crap. Powders and gels taste like something you use to clean the bathroom... A Pork pie on the other hand! (And with an apple and a lump of cheese makes a meal fit for an...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT entries CLOSE SATURDAY
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1961
Re: WRT entries open
Epic fail on the train front. I could just about stomach the £180 fair but there isn't a bike space on any service between here and there on either the Friday or the Tuesday. Sorry Stu, your event CO2 footprint just went up....
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3996
- Views: 524597
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
That looks a nice thing Stu and suitably analogue. Re the touch screen stuff - it's even appearing on modern motorbikes - give me a shoogly needle on a clock any day!
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:24 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 1400 metre climb over 100km ??
- Replies: 16
- Views: 899
Re: 1400 metre climb over 100km ??
Perth to the summit of the Cairnwell? 65k and 660m of climbing, with a nice little sting in the tale?? Mostly long and steady as per Euro climbs though
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: GB Duro Entries open
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2983
Re: GB Duro Entries open
I've got a place if I pay up. Will give it some thought as in two minds now....
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:43 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: North York Moors 300
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2077
Re: North York Moors 300
I think I'll stick to the 300...
I'll see. If I can get a week off then mebbes I'll do the whole lot
I'll see. If I can get a week off then mebbes I'll do the whole lot
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1244512
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Ooh, tempting in that case. QR too. Let me think about it and I might make you an offer, unless someone else can use them. No rush, I did try selling them on here a wee while back but no takers. https://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=310936&hilit=fork#p310936 Price very negot...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1244512
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
No probs, they do have triple bottle mounts and mudguard mounts, but tyre clearance is limited to 40mm - https://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/genesis- ... -vargn1261
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 1400 metre climb over 100km ??
- Replies: 16
- Views: 899
Re: 1400 metre climb over 100km ??
I was about to say any road ride in mid Wales or the Yorkshire Dales. 1400m climb per 100k is actually quite easy to achieve round here too.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: The Quarries Thread
- Replies: 95
- Views: 19254
Re: The Quarries Thread
All Whinstone in Southern Scotland Shaff. Not been down that way for yonks - that is a nice road!
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:35 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Alternative Winter Ride Event Thing - Pentlands edition
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1422
Re: Alternative Winter Ride Event Thing - Pentlands edition
None of my GR's were like that
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3851
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
A 20x20x6 slab = 5750 T and that's the size of the ones in my local hills. So 8000T probably about right for one in deep peat. Oh and concrete takes a load of CO2 to produce....
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1244512
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 534
Re: Narrow-wide chainrings
Sean, I'm swearing by Superstar rings - got one on the Straggler (surly cog and connex 8 speed chain) and it's lasted for ages - 2 years and a good chunk of miles in all weather (2 chains though). I also use a 26T one on the fatty and it too seems to be lasting for yonks. £30
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: North York Moors 300
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2077
Re: North York Moors 300
Bloody hell, one of the things I like about that route last year was that it wasn't a complete mission (a la BB300 ) I see he has missed the railway line of headwind doom out and added the inclined plain. I think he was also going to try and remove some of the road riding in the forest.
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 543
- Views: 36875
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Select the picture and hit the edit button at the top of the page (microsh*te in the doc / pic viewer) and it opens in paint. The resize button then allows you to reduce it to whatever you want. Sorry that's probably not a great description, doubtless you tube will have a better one...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3851
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
As for 220m turbines on-shore, it's bonkers, the civil engineering in the base is going to be huge I'm interested to learn more about that to increase my knowledge. At the moment we have the highest one in England just outside our town at 147m. Apparently it's also the most powerful, generating 4.1...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 534
Re: Narrow-wide chainrings
I've found using a NW ring without a clutch mech works fine, no issues with chain dropping. Also used a normal ring (full profile teeth, no ramps or pins) with a clutch mech and it needed a chain guide Funnily enough when I ran a triple, the chain regularly dropped of the granny ring. You always spa...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3851
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
I thought it was pretty constructive discussion with an acceptable modicum of personal opinions...
Oh well back to riding bikes with bags on folks....
Oh well back to riding bikes with bags on folks....
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3851
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
this idealised vision of farm maids wandering through an orchard feeding chickens and then collecting their eggs in a trugg* :roll: I thought that was your job, Bob :grin: The issue with windfarms is that they don't generate much electricity for a very large environmental impact - the access roads,...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 543
- Views: 36875
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
A range of mileages being bashed out this winter, very large and very small is good :-bd Mrs Polisherman, try using https://imgbb.com/ Free to register, you don't get spammed to death and unlike most of the other free photo hosting sites, it stays free. Upload a pic (low ish res) by dragging and dro...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: We live in a 'golden age' if your bike preferences aren't off the shelf
- Replies: 5
- Views: 479
Re: We live in a 'golden age' if your bike preferences aren't off the shelf
oof, Overburys. I remember seeing an odd one at a couple of the early days MTB races, quite the things. I subsequently used to see one round Edinburgh, usually locked to a lamppost and looking rather battered Remember this ad? https://i.ibb.co/wyDTZZG/overbury-pioneer-188.jpg The stepped top tube / ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3851
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
One of (many) things that annoys me about wind farm developments is the way they go about developments - put in for a large number of large turbines and if you get planning it's a bonus, otherwise at some point you agree to reduce the size and number, everyone heaves a sigh of relief and you get pla...