Hah! : ) Yes....an evening at the Ragleth should be on the cards...and perhaps the Star.
I've a rough idea to take the lad over Trans Cambrian to get to BB country but then it's all open. Gotta strap kit on him this week and get him used to carrying.
Greetz
S : )
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- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Old and New - UK Tour 2024
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3593
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:56 am
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Old and New - UK Tour 2024
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3593
Old and New - UK Tour 2024
Getting in a bit late to make WRT this year...but will be tramping about Wales/England from 15th May through to first week of June. My brother wants to break his bikepacking cherry in Bearbones country...there will be pushing involved as I don't think he understands the geography yet. Sing out if yo...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3124
Re: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
I'll give it a go. Should be able to knock off 6 'n 4 during May 'n June tramping around UK....3 might be trickier with time limits for rest of year and will require creative thinking but 2 should be reachable with a weekender.
Greetz
S. : )
Greetz
S. : )
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 209719
Re: What are you listening to now?
"Give me convenience or give me death" Any other options available please? Not a big fan of either of those TBH. @ Reg - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables....with such classics as Kill the Poor, Drug Me and Holiday in Cambodia. Currently listening to The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 9:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11457
- Views: 1985060
Re: The post man's been ...
...and dropped off some soft luggage from Big Dave @ Nuclear Sunrise Stitchworks. Managed to snag some old stock of the Trinity and Little Boy bags at a good price.
Greetz
S : )
Greetz
S : )
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11457
- Views: 1985060
Re: The post man's been ...
...and dropped me a size small Revelate Pronghorn. Giving bar harnesses another go. It's not as robust as the normal Rev. harness, but we'll see how I get on with it.
Greetz
S : )
Greetz
S : )
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:05 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What's your single best item you own for camping?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2333
Re: What's your single best item you own for camping?
Hands down...Hexamid Solplex. Neoair and Skeletool get an honourable mention.
Greetz
S : )
Greetz
S : )
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 12:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Suggest some socks.. pls
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3687
Re: Suggest some socks.. pls
+1 for Defeet. Wooleators in summer...Woolie Boolies in winter.
Greetz
S : )
Greetz
S : )
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1925
Re: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
Mmmm....Ben Riach 21. Yum : )
Had a nice Tomintoul with mum at xmas just gone. I'd go that again.
Bruichladdich The Laddie 22yo unpeated....yes please!
Greetz
S : )
Had a nice Tomintoul with mum at xmas just gone. I'd go that again.
Bruichladdich The Laddie 22yo unpeated....yes please!
Greetz
S : )
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11457
- Views: 1985060
Re: The post man's been ...
...and gone...left me a flextail zero (loud...not for stealthing), some fresh T tape and dry bags. Left my brother a zpacks Offset Solo tent and neve gear Waratah quilt. Quilt looks well made with a zippered lower and draw string to make a toe box. The Offset Solo has a footprint not much bigger tha...
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 10:20 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Torino-Nice Rally logistics - tips?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 886
Re: Torino-Nice Rally logistics - tips?
Fly to Nice. Ride to Turin. Ride back. Fly home. One of the best trips I did and a firm favourite.
"Just wing it."
James Olsen, Vinardio, IT. 2018.
Greetz
S : )
"Just wing it."
James Olsen, Vinardio, IT. 2018.
Greetz
S : )
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:41 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 209719
Re: What are you listening to now?
Will have to start calling you Reggie Knuckle ; )
OT....listening to The Honeymoon Is Over - The Cruel Sea. Summer-time grooves for melting in the Qld heat.
Greetz
S : )
OT....listening to The Honeymoon Is Over - The Cruel Sea. Summer-time grooves for melting in the Qld heat.
Greetz
S : )
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Which Exposure light?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1632
Re: Which Exposure light?
Joystick user here. They've come a long way in 10 years.
Great with a diffuser in the shelter of your choosing. Mk7 on the lid....the others on the bars.
Mode 3, low setting for good battery life.
Greetz
S. : )
Great with a diffuser in the shelter of your choosing. Mk7 on the lid....the others on the bars.
Mode 3, low setting for good battery life.
Greetz
S. : )
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:36 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2895
Re: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
Happy new year to you from down below, Mr Large....and to all the 'Boners : ) Planned events... - Tasmania in Feb. for RB Hardline and a TISM gig - UK in May for Friends of Cardiacs gig and take my brother out cavorting in the rain for a few weeks around the old haunts as he needs to find his inner ...
- Mon Jan 01, 2024 3:59 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Single skin tents: do they work in British conditions?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 561
Re: Single skin tents: do they work in British conditions?
Never had a problem with my Hexamid. Would occasionally suffer from condensation if I pitched poorly and didn't allow for airflow.
Greetz
S. : )
Greetz
S. : )
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 3:30 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3732
Re: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
Thanks James. The grotty green cup, chocolate sandwich and sneaky bivvies reminded me of good times in the Alps.
Greetz
S : )
Greetz
S : )
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wheel building
- Replies: 8
- Views: 647
Re: Wheel building
I read this a few years ago on recommendation from a friend who builds his own wheels. The lacing part I found interesting...I just never knew : )
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733 ... ycle_Wheel
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S : )
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733 ... ycle_Wheel
Greetz
S : )
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536455
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
It's now a cheery Friday...as I've just clocked off at 23:20. Time for a dram...some Jura kindly sent by a customer for fixing their networks. Gotta love free whisky eh? : )
Greetz
S.
Greetz
S.
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 12:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Are you analogue?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 22205
Re: Are you analogue?
My work is 100% digital. At play it's a mashup.
I'll read maps at home but use GPS in the field.
No eeb...just a bunch of analogue bikes...and I'll take XTR cabled gears over electric all day, every day.
My oscillator modules are analogue...but I sequence in digital realm.
Greetz
S. : )
I'll read maps at home but use GPS in the field.
No eeb...just a bunch of analogue bikes...and I'll take XTR cabled gears over electric all day, every day.
My oscillator modules are analogue...but I sequence in digital realm.
Greetz
S. : )
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:26 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Winter Bivvy?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 41819
Re: Winter Bivvy?
...some of the best experiences of my life on past Winter Bivvies - the various Long Mynd ones springing to mind, especially the notorious 'ice skating' one..... R'amen to that! Winter Bivvy is the best of the year. This one was particularly memorable. https://vimeo.com/148850259 Greetz S : )
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: I seem to have lost my cursor...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2218
Re: I seem to have lost my cursor...
Have you tried switching it off and back on again? ; ) Too much Guinness, Sir? *grins* In all honesty...it's more likely your device and its updates munging things than the website code. Reboot it. Browser caches also suck - as per PaulB2's comment, dump your caches; I say dump them often. Oh yeah -...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 1138
- Views: 209719
Re: What are you listening to now?
Cardiacs - A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke7dmA0qOLI
Greetz
S : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke7dmA0qOLI
Greetz
S : )
- Mon Jul 03, 2023 2:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The Tour Divide 2023 thread
- Replies: 82
- Views: 7644
Re: The Tour Divide 2023 thread
This. I think we left AC at 2am...got to Rawlins at 5pm and ate like animals.
The Basin is a beautiful ride...when it's dry and the wind is in your favour.
The Basin with mud would be testing.
Greetz
S : )
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 9:37 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ludlow
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1784
Re: Ludlow
Plenty of good cycling in that area. I lived in the Corvedale for a while. Many nights spent up on Brown Clee as well as Long Mynd...both within easy reach of Ludlow.
Greetz
S : )
Greetz
S : )
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 12:48 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Songs to play at your funeral
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2076
Re: Songs to play at your funeral
@ fatbikephil - +1 for ND. Short 'n sweet.
They can play what they want when I go...I won't be around to hear it. I wouldn't subject them to Pulse Demon or Space Metalizer...they'd want to die too. ; )
Greetz
S : )
They can play what they want when I go...I won't be around to hear it. I wouldn't subject them to Pulse Demon or Space Metalizer...they'd want to die too. ; )
Greetz
S : )