I'm going to have to up my game.... Portmadoc to Berwyns..... okayyyyy!

*edit to admit idiocy - I'd confused Berwyn with Brecon, as one does.

Brake pads...

...a selection of tyres.....
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....and a Salsa side entry water bottle cage
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1 of 2 new bikes. 3 out 2 in.
my cycling based stockpile is now very very tidy and trim. 1 mtb 1 road/tourer 1 pair of cycling shoes 1 helmet
it has taken me a hell of a long time to get down to this............


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In preparation for the WRT and my Scotland visit.
Mucky Nutz Gut and Face fenders, got both just to see how they work, nice and light compared to what I have.
Lezyne Flow SL side loading cages (L&R) disappointingly my favourite bottles have the groove in the wrong place but others fit.
And a few days back, a pair of Nukeproof Electron Evo pedals, certainly a lot lighter and grippier than the Saints I was using up until now, and my first plastic pedals.
Other stuff due soon and yet more just ordered

Just received some permavent from Wales with a nice surprise inside, and a cumulus 250 Offa backcountry Scot,very happy man today and it's Friday the end of a very long week

And delivered my replacement race face cranks, so now I have a functioning bike again.

I have to say raceface really do stand by their product, posted back Tuesday and replacement received Thursday, but there again if your going to invest serious money on exotic light weight kit you expect some support, often this doesn’t happen, you get “oh it’s out of it’s warranty” etc.

Interestingly they did replace my Next SL with the new Next R cranks ( rated for downhill etc) perhaps they think us bikepackers are hardcore. Even so I’ll accept the 60g weight penalty if they last.

Today: 9 OS maps for the north (even though some are west or even south of me).

Yesterday: a XT 11-46 cassette and some peaty odi grips.

Oh and a Cesaria Evora cd.

Alpkit 400ml Mytimug - what a dinky little thing it is too - to fit my new BBB Hyperstove.

Also, many thanks to a gentleman in Wales, some other cooking items for experimental purposes. My entry form for Masterchef will be going in next week. "You have 30 minutes to produce a gourmet meal for four, using AK Mytimug 400+750, a 22g stove, a Hyperstove, a stream, some sheep-poo, some moss, and some indeterminate fungi that's been growing in your seatpack".

He wont stop delivering parcels to me
Today i took delivery of

Some merino arm warmers and legs
A new roadie cap ( marks trick seems to be the way forward for this summer )
some juicy lube - for the bike!!
Oh a new Neoair Xterm mat ( this is the mutts nutts and the price was fantastic )
A few missing links ( turns out the skipping problem i had with my bike last month after all the swopping of stuff and new stuff....it was that old missing link i was using!!! )
alpkit kraku stove ( sold the last one for some reason )

Hes due again in a few days with more two pairs of shorts and more bike stuff

Got some of those spesh drop bars with the 15mm rise. I'd noticed my cowbells seemed to have gotten bent - must have dropped the bike at some point - and the spesh ones were a chunk cheaper. Slightly wider, similar flare and not as much drop. with the 15mm rise it puts my bars up a wee bit so will hopefully make it more wrist and back friendly.

Gebla Rohbox and some Rival 22 shifters to get my second Rohloff working on a drop bar bike. Can't wait

An MSR Trailshot (after the recommendations on here). I already had a Travel Tap which is okay but a bit bulky if you don't actually need to carry it full of water. With the Trailshot I hope to save a little space (albeit with a slightly lower level of protection).

htrider wrote:Got some of those spesh drop bars with the 15mm rise. I'd noticed my cowbells seemed to have gotten bent - must have dropped the bike at some point - and the spesh ones were a chunk cheaper. Slightly wider, similar flare and not as much drop. with the 15mm rise it puts my bars up a wee bit so will hopefully make it more wrist and back friendly.

Could have had my spesh bars cheap once removed from my sequoia

The riser bit is a pain for mounting stuff on the bars

I’m swapping to cowbells.

Asposium wrote:

htrider wrote:Got some of those spesh drop bars with the 15mm rise. I'd noticed my cowbells seemed to have gotten bent - must have dropped the bike at some point - and the spesh ones were a chunk cheaper. Slightly wider, similar flare and not as much drop. with the 15mm rise it puts my bars up a wee bit so will hopefully make it more wrist and back friendly.

Could have had my spesh bars cheap once removed from my sequoia

The riser bit is a pain for mounting stuff on the bars

I’m swapping to cowbells.

Hey ho, someone else will buy them!

...and dropped off a map. Now i just need to work out what I actually need as opposed to what I want.

...and dropped me off a pair of fresh Nanos for my XWA ride. Gettin' excited now.

Greetz

S.

lune ranger wrote:Gebla Rohbox and some Rival 22 shifters to get my second Rohloff working on a drop bar bike. Can't wait

Please, let me know how that works out for you. The Rohbox is so much better than the crappy Cinq5 which is made of cheese, very soft cheese. But I find the Rohbox shifting is much heavier and never imagined it working with drop-bar shifters.

...and bringst me a trail of shot, most lovely in it's plasticness but lovelier still in it's twenty six pound cost.

And left lying on the front porch a set of maps covering the WRT and Jenn Ride.

A Cycliq Fly12 camera because I am fed up of constantly nearly being killed on my road commutes

I'm assuming a camera doesn't actually stop you from being killed to death Dave - just a way of hopefully finding the culprit?

The swag-man brought swag from all over - from our very own Archie Fufkin a PHD jacket and some stupid-light trousers, from the lovely folks at Lyon Eqpt a Synmat, and from over the pond a mini lockring remover that works with thru axles. Not sure I'll ever need it, but feel naked in the back of beyond without one.

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... and dropped off some maps and a replacement Alba crankset

... with the ubiquitous Trailshot, 300 Bikeability certificates and badges, James Acaster's book "Classic Scrapes", and four baby pandas.

Exit one baffled postman.

RIP wrote:...and four baby pandas. Exit one baffled postman.

We need a simple 'like' button on this forum, that one made me chuckle.