This has been a real journey to create a new render of my Garmin maps. You cannot know how many technical hurdles I've had to jump to get to this point as almost every library has changed since I did this a few years back. I found horrible errors in Ordnance Survey data and a number of bugs in the o...

Well reading this has changed our holiday plans. The 5 of us are now getting the ferry to Amsterdam, on bikes, and doing a leisurely 250Km loop using eco rated hostels and BnB's. We'll buy local etc and hope the kids don't hate it too much :lol: It was always an option to be honest, but this was a ...

Very sad, a great guy instrumental in the growth of UK 24 hour racing

Looks like Shona and Rich have scratched?

Good to see Steve Moat up there, really nice guy

Hang on we are all forgetting that the best thing we could do for the planet is f**k off and wreck another one. So let's just chuck everything at space travel and colonisation of better places with more beaches and no Merthyr Tydfils

I often think there's a lot of confusion between 'saving the planet' and 'saving ourselves'. If we'd like to save ourselves or at least extend our potential time here, then yes, behaviour needs to change. Yet, if we'd like to save the planet, then eradicating the human race as quickly as possible w...

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:44 pm Visions of Dave heading down to his allotment for a quiet morning indulging his new pipe smoking routine, only to be confronted by Reg and a merry band of BAMmers nestled in the potting shed.

I’ve filled it full of manure to fend off the BAMers

Cheery Friday here as we take ownership of our new allotment today. I'm off to buy a pipe and some tobacco and a hoe later.

Also reading Raw Spirit by Iain Banks, great fun though I confess to skipping the ample petrolhead discursions. I dipped in and out of it, and have now lost/lent out my copy. As a massive Iain Banks fan, it felt like it was under edited, and that he was given free reign. I hated it because of the s...

Won a ton on the premium bonds

Here is is Bob https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAMmVs2rrfJzsAY7wUSiYwWETmfYs9Iyqm0gppkKMX3FLIwzn_YzCaqyCn2pq7KmY_ymHeK7gotYfeFPVxYtowuqTBWB69meYj3NV8Pq2MqJ1HDdoY3f6Mo9hMO-7diRouTX-w8KGH1gWEn0QqNMpqRrhHwl1L8NOkvsp25uH4Ql6NWH8UhJNeLRqk4cUX/s3475/Joolze_Dymond_Stuart_Wright_...

I’ll own up. Never got on with tarps and woken up wet so many mornings. I’m in the whack a tent/bivy up and stay dry camp. My Big Agnes is zero faff, up in seconds and like a little hotel. For me it’s the technology moving on. None of us use canvas anymore? I started out under it.

I’d go back to them with your last paragraph and see what they say

My local had “Landlord” on tap tonight


Marvellous

Ten Year Old Talisker under the Barter tree. Irony was I had van camped next the the distillery a few weeks previously

I'm rendering a full UK version and will upload once the majority of bugs are ironed out.

PM me a location near you and I’ll make you a sample. I’m debating not putting all the ITT routes on as in some places they look really crap due to overlap. I may even leave them off altogether

Thanks all the 2mx looks ideal

Any recommendations for a large travel duffel type bag with wheels? I need to get a set of ski boots and a week's clothes in one. I can find loads cheap online but it would be nice to have something that would last.

Don’t ask me about my T6 which has been in the garage for a month and they are still not sure why it won’t start. I was a big fan until this point. It is possibly the garages fault and I’m in a sticky situation as I cannot prove it. It went in to have a rough idle looked at and they have replaced a ...

Looking for a cheap GPS unit that can track the usual metrics for my 9 year old. Were planning on doing some bikepacking events together this year and he wants to start tracking his rides. I have an Edge 520 been in the cupboard for years. The usb rubber cover is missing apart from that in good nic...

johnnystorm wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 4:28 pm Biggest navigation bargain in a long time.

https://www.scrapehero.com/store/produc ... ionReports

Please don’t anyone buy this free dataset

I swear by Woolie boolies

Definitely give them a try

I will take the multi chain pliers PM me details

I’m going to cox my ladies rowing crew to a win at the world gig rowing champs then do a big ride in Spain with Dunc.