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- Mon Dec 18, 2023 6:51 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
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Re: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
Read it now, excellent write up. Sounds like a memorable trip, if not entirely as planned. But then what ever is!
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 11:56 am
- 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: 3318
Re: Tour de France 2023: Injuries, disaster bivies, failure to complete the ride - a great time all round
I've not had a chance to read the whole post, just scan and look at the pics. From that alone, James, it looks like a bloody ace trip! Thanks for sharing I drove down through France in the summer with the family, from Caen to not far from Limoges, and thought how good a place it would be for a bike ...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1162
Re: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
That was cracking Allen, nice work
- Mon Dec 04, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat slick tyre
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4566
Re: Fat slick tyre
Something from Schwalbe? They do lots of touring tyres
I used to use a 38F/35R Marathon plus combo on my commuter (started narrower and went wider each time I wore a tyre out)
I used to use a 38F/35R Marathon plus combo on my commuter (started narrower and went wider each time I wore a tyre out)
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Winter bivvy....... without a tent ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5510
Re: Winter bivvy....... without a tent ?
Definitely fine Tony, although you do need to be a bit more organised with kit. Most things will have frozen in a tent anyway, but it's worse in a bivy bag - shoes, bottles, water filter, electronics and breakfast all need to be inside or under the bivy bag so they don't freeze Also might be helpful...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 10:29 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Whats your trouser of choice?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11243
Re: Whats your trouser of choice?
If you're tall and don't have the required waist size that most companies assume you have, then finding MTB trousers is tough My two recommendations are keela roadrunners and the alpkit floe, both of which are available in a long leg length. The floes fit better with knee pads than the keelas. The k...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 150247
Re: Wildlife
Out for a spot of geocaching and dog walking with the family in the New Forest at the weekend. Always take my bins with me on any walk Spotting something unusual in the middle of the field nearby and the bins confirmed it was unusual. White tailed eagle. They're resident in this area but I've never ...
- Thu Nov 02, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dealing with the damp
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2126
Re: Dealing with the damp
Putting on damp clothes in the mornings save you the weight and extra space needed for dry clothes that will just get wet anyway. I always have a dry set for the night Having clothes that can cope with being wet does help, but putting on cold, damp clothes in the morning can be pretty miserable. My ...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Has anyome used any stuff from Haglofs?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2021
Re: Has anyome used any stuff from Haglofs?
They are a fairly high end Scandi brand, their stuff isn't cheap but I've found it to be very good Most of my walking troos are from Haglofs, I find their long is a genuine long unlike many, helped by Scandi folks generally being fairly tall. I have 2 pairs of rugged mountain pants and they are unbe...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:54 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Riding the Gr5 (ish), Montreux to Nice
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4510
Re: Riding the Gr5 (ish), Montreux to Nice
Nice trip report, Andy. Looks like a fantastic trip
The exposure in the pic on day 4 would have me absolutely bricking myself riding my bike. I could walk that no problem, but I wouldn't be thrilled on a bike. It's like a very high stakes boardwalk!
The exposure in the pic on day 4 would have me absolutely bricking myself riding my bike. I could walk that no problem, but I wouldn't be thrilled on a bike. It's like a very high stakes boardwalk!
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 10:56 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Sold
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1234
Re: FS: Tyres - 50mm Ramblers, 3" Nobby Nic, Conti X King 29", cheap 650b Nanos
If those nanos don't get taken, i'll have them for my sons bike please
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 5:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Baselayer recommendations?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5091
Re: Baselayer recommendations?
Huge Brynje fan here. I have both the short and long sleeve super thermo varieties. I sometimes wear two baselayers with the Brynje underneath, particularly if I know it's going to be wet I think I'd combust / dry out to the shrivelled-scrotum level Stu mentioned elsewhere with 2 baselayers :shock:...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 12:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Baselayer recommendations?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5091
Re: Baselayer recommendations?
Huge Brynje fan here. I have both the short and long sleeve super thermo varieties.
I sometimes wear two baselayers with the Brynje underneath, particularly if I know it's going to be wet
I sometimes wear two baselayers with the Brynje underneath, particularly if I know it's going to be wet
- Thu Oct 19, 2023 11:05 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Swapping out rigid & suspension forks...?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 744
Re: Swapping out rigid & suspension forks...?
I had grand plans to do this. I bought a rigid fork for my Cotic and planned to swap the sus fork in and out as wanted. It was fairly easy to swap, but it's still a faff. In the end I kept it as fully rigid and have a full suss to complement it
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 2:36 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Jennride 2024 25/26/27th May
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5592
Re: Jennride 2024 25/26/27th May
Nice one Rich. Can bag the slot in the diary before all the family stuff goes in!
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 10:38 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Sept with Sean (and Andy, and also Reg, Verena, Hux and Ralph)
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10068
Re: Sept with Sean (and Andy, and also Reg, Verena, Hux and Ralph)
Enjoyed the write up. Green chalk is horrendous stuff
I remember that pub from a Chilterns event. We were comfortably the smelliest and dirtiest folks in there, food was very good on quality but a bit lacking on quantity
I remember that pub from a Chilterns event. We were comfortably the smelliest and dirtiest folks in there, food was very good on quality but a bit lacking on quantity
- Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:38 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: "Wye?". No, no.The question is of course "Wye not?"
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3406
Re: "Wye?". No, no.The question is of course "Wye not?"
Cracking write up
- Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1246884
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
You could try some clear gorilla tape?
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 5:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A small amount of assistance required.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 778
Re: A small amount of assistance required.
Sorry Stu, was all set to do it and then went into a meeting!
Shout if you need any more
Shout if you need any more
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 1:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A small amount of assistance required.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 778
Re: A small amount of assistance required.
Yep, anything in particular?
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 10:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lake District guide coming soon
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1352
Re: Lake District guide coming soon
Sounds like father Xmas having a day off
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:12 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11456
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Re: The post man's been ...
two chains for my cargo bike. It's a Big Dummy so needs two as it's so long. Hoping they're the right ones!
- Fri Aug 04, 2023 11:53 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1246884
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Winter boots in size EU47 - https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/p/n ... nter-boots
- Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:21 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: FS: Victorinox Swisstool Spirit 3 multitool
- Replies: 2
- Views: 382
Re: FS: Victorinox Swisstool Spirit 3 multitool
You haven't put a price
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 2:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tyre Patches
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1810
Re: Tyre Patches
I literally do exactly as per fatbikephil - clean area, key it to help with adhesion, normal rubber glue for inner tube patches, mushroom plugs with the metal spike on the end Has held up very well I did try that but it started to push out and I didn't want to risk the split becoming bigger. When y...