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- Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sleeping Socks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 528
Re: Sleeping Socks
My answer to cold feet is a hot water bottle (actually, a small platypus bottle) and dry socks. Half fill with cold water (not the socks :grin: )then top up with hot. I find I can’t get to sleep with cold feet, but once they’re warm, they stay warm. As an extra bonus, the water still has some heat i...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:53 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536389
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 780
Re: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
I had a tank slapper on a 1939 Royal Enfield Flying Flea. It wasn’t terrifying, because it was on a grassy field and I doubt the speed was over 25mph.yourguitarhero wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:26 pm I once had a tankslapper on a GSXR600 at full throttle. Absolutely terrifying!
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47494
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I’m in again.
1/12 on the WE with RIP, MuddyPete and Raggedstone. Reg has brilliantly covered the trip in the WE thread and I have no more to add.
1/12 on the WE with RIP, MuddyPete and Raggedstone. Reg has brilliantly covered the trip in the WE thread and I have no more to add.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5050
Re: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
Well, what a weekend it was! It was great to ride with (follow - I had nothing to do with routing, I just tailed along) RIP, Muddypete And Raggedstone. And we got to see THE waterwheel in the mine. Impressive! Apart from the riding and good companions, my WE was notable for forgetting my riding jack...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2893
Re: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
It's almost to late to post WE coz that’ll be done in a few days.
WRT.
And an OT tick-off of the bucket list….. the Great Glen Canoe Trail. This with my daughter, two sons and at least one grandson.
WRT.
And an OT tick-off of the bucket list….. the Great Glen Canoe Trail. This with my daughter, two sons and at least one grandson.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:03 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Ideas for old self inflating sleeping mat?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2856
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536389
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Thanks. So do I. I'll take him to the vets tomorrow and get him checked out.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536389
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
It’s been a pretty miserable Friday up until 7 o’clock when our big cat came home after being AWOL for three days. The day he went missing, I came down in the morning and found the utility room that the cats are shut into at night literally covered in cat poo. It was spread about the floor, on a pil...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536389
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:23 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536389
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Tomorrow will be a lot cheerier than it might have been. Emergency op to fix a torn retina yesterday, after a previous attempt with lasers two weeks ago. This time they used cryotherapy - freezing with liquid nitrogen. Scary stuff. Only a local anaesthetic. I don't think they actually pop your eyeb...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:19 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1272
Re: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
Thanks for a beautiful video. I don’t know how you do it - have you a Time Machine ? It must take hours to set up the shots - I’m thinking, stop, set up the camera, ride back the trail a bit, turn around and ride past the camera, then stop and retrieve the camera. Not to mention the drone video. And...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205397
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
A brilliant effort there, Reg & MP, though I wonder how you reconciled all the extra weight given what a weight weenie you are. You have eclipsed my steak'n'chips from my WRT this year by a long shot. :-bd ….And yes obviously one has to have a f*** (now then now then) at Crimbo, but equally obvi...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: My winter event - Freedom Ride for Dr Aafia Siddiqui
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6809
Re: My winter event - Freedom Ride for Dr Aafia Siddiqui
Oh Lordy! What an introduction to bikepacking for poor Nasir. He’ll probably never speak to you again, poor thing…
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Let's have a photo comp. VOTE NOW
- Replies: 43
- Views: 31814
Re: Let's have a photo comp;.
From this morning…
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 2:33 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205397
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Last BaM for 2023. Coinciding with Global Fatbike Day. I'd wanted to make more of an effort, but I was working nights last night and didn't get out of bed early enough, so the Fatty was hastily loaded and I set off mid-afternoon to bivvy in a spot I've had in my sights for a good while. Arrived afte...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205397
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
The original plan was an open sided barn two and a half hours away. While I actually managed to sleep last night, it was drug induced, and I think another night of that might be a good idea. I've never bivvied in the same location twice, but there is a local open sided barn, only a few KM away, tha...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205397
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
BaM for November. There was a frosty layer on the car as I left home at around seven o’clock, bound for a place I’d bivvied in my first year of BaM. Twelve miles of lanes later, I pitched my hammock on Larkton Hill, and found I’d forgotten to pack my tarp. Again! A dry night was forecast so it seeme...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536389
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Actually, Lu, one of the advantages of these temperatures is you could do a re-enactment of the famous 'watertrough' bivvy and be guaranteed not to get an accidental dunking because it would be frozen! There’s a thought. Hmm. I think I'd need better insulation to prevent me from melting a hole unde...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536389
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
There was a bit of ice on the puddles, yes, but only -1 on our wall thermometer in the garden when I got home. I was too warm, with an Alpkit cloud cover inside my Cumulus 350 and UK hammocks underquilt. I had to uncover in the night.
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:46 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536389
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
...and you're a bit early for December? On yeah, so it is. Today's even cheerier then, because theres still another four weeks 'til Christmas. Have a picture from my bed… https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHdWiLdFspQK48KyhANB_IQI007j5HZnLvgvw9ddAIehK7r91L4KBCMJuE93gi23YOe9jmpLsOXZFntj0kiWUIF...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 10:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536389
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Cheery coz I'm in my hammock BaM-ing for December. I've still got a couple of slurps of Captain Morgans and I can go to sleep looking at the stars through the trees. Less cheery because I can see the stars, because I've forgotten my tarp again. Doh!
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Coming now ... only 2 days left.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6500
Re: Coming now ...
OT, sort of, but my dream T is a Zombie Bear, with more visible graphics (WRT 2020?) in bamboo.
Sorry to butt in.
Sorry to butt in.
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 1:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: I seem to have lost my cursor...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2218
Re: I seem to have lost my cursor...
Can't help you, sorry, I'm too old to manage technology. Haven't you got a 5-10 year old grandchild to do it? They're the experts.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:52 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205397
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
October BaM. Just Made it. As it's Halloween, where else but a churchyard. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHc1nArkbTpEPqyVs-AwhQ2-MyIqa1f8GGwTSu8rYjGtO031gzjuHM8HuBQt5KnTfevZPaxZPsUfEEPyOBNJop8Pz9ASLgP5lN844zN4LP-Fn1k8I08=w1920-h1080 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHfc_YGgYItHICL...