A nice pair of Fjallraven shorts.
Just in time for this weekends snow...

...and dropped me off a new chair mat as I've destroyed another...and yet another guitar pedal. I'm now convinced pedals are to guitarists as crack is to an addict.

Greetz

S.

3 Voile straps..
Think I need longer ones tho.. but hey.

The postman delivered (to work, wife avoidance) a sale Alpkit Cloud Cover quilt as a hammock under quilt.



Looks to fit my DD hammock perfectly, but I wasn't going to test it swinging off the oven door handle

JohnClimber wrote:The postman delivered (to work, wife avoidance) a sale Alpkit Cloud Cover quilt as a hammock under quilt.



Looks to fit my DD hammock perfectly, but I wasn't going to test it swinging off the oven door handle

I bought a Cloud Cover back when they cost £67. Been using it for a winter quilt extender. Last December, bivvying out with my son, I forgot to pack my big underquilt (doh) and it was a case of give up and go home or use the Cloud Cover under the hammock. It worked very well - I had no cold spots. I'm going to sew some tabs along the sides that'll allow me to stretch some thin bungee lengthwise. This will let me slide it up and down as well as keeping the edges tight against the hammock. It's going to save a few hundred grams and a lot of bulk from my pack.

frogatthefarriers wrote:I bought a Cloud Cover back when they cost £67. Been using it for a winter quilt extender. Last December, bivvying out with my son, I forgot to pack my big underquilt (doh) and it was a case of give up and go home or use the Cloud Cover under the hammock. It worked very well - I had no cold spots. I'm going to sew some tabs along the sides that'll allow me to stretch some thin bungee lengthwise. This will let me slide it up and down as well as keeping the edges tight against the hammock. It's going to save a few hundred grams and a lot of bulk from my pack.

What temps do you use just your Cloud Cover down to as your underquilt please?

frogatthefarriers wrote:I'm going to sew some tabs along the sides that'll allow me to stretch some thin bungee lengthwise. This will let me slide it up and down as well as keeping the edges tight against the hammock. It's going to save a few hundred grams and a lot of bulk from my pack.

Great idea. I am going to blatantly copy. I'll let you know how I get on with the missus's sewing machine......gulp!
Thanks,

Dave

A pair of Revelate Pogies from Backcountry.scot - that's the end of winter then!

Some nice stickers from a chap in deepest Wales.....cheers

A couple of merino tops via Sport Pursuit. Half-price expensive hipster brand and very nice too. They're exceptional in that they don't say "Expensive Hipster Brand" on them anywhere.

JohnClimber wrote:What temps do you use just your Cloud Cover down to as your underquilt please?

Hi John, I've only used it as an underquilt the one time. Don't know what the temperature was, but it was December, between Christmas and new year. It was frosty when we went to bed, but warmer by the morning. It should be said though, that I was wearing a down gilet and hoody, down booties with heat pads inside and fleece-lined trousers.

Expensive hipster brand bibs for new life in Brittany.
Hope they last a long time!

DHL have just delivered a big box with a new bike in it!

Unfortunately the box is at home and I'm at work. It's going to be a very slow afternoon.
It's a heavily discounted 2017 model and all the UK stores who claimed to have stock were fibbing (and still are three weeks later) so I ordered it from Germany on March 7th.

Pics later. As someone who usually rides rigid steel framed bikes it's definitely a paradigm shift!

My (late) mother gave me specific instructions to buy something I really wanted, that wasn't silly, was of good quality, that I'd enjoy for years, but that I wouldn't usually buy! Thanks mum!

And delivered a box containing spokes Also some nice Park tools, a pair of quite large sprocket holding pliers ( used instead of a chain whip) and hugely chunky park lock ring remover


Serious toolage

Dr Nick wrote:DHL have just delivered a big box with a new bike in it!

Playing out over the bank holiday weekend then?

Just went for a quick spin (on road only). It's surprisingly un-draggy and bloody good fun! When assembling it I was surprised (in relative terms) how little the front wheel weighed. Being tubeless must help... This is going to be fun I think

BDS - possibly, family commitments allowing...

Not living somewhere with significant snow, I've never wanted a fat bike, but that ^^^ looks really cool!

Very nice Nick, I must say that my eye was drawn to the coffee machine and cake lurking in the background

Very nice Nick, I must say that my eye was drawn to the coffee machine and cake lurking in the background

.... and the big tub of Castrol Moly grease.

Nice bike!

Dr Nick wrote:

Just went for a quick spin (on road only). It's surprisingly un-draggy and bloody good fun! When assembling it I was surprised (in relative terms) how little the front wheel weighed. Being tubeless must help... This is going to be fun I think

BDS - possibly, family commitments allowing...

vaguely exciting! Shame the snow has gone now

vaguely exciting!

I've always wanted a Lefty. That front wheel looks even bigger with one.

Dr Nick wrote:As someone who usually rides rigid steel framed bikes it's definitely a paradigm shift!

True!

My (late) mother gave me specific instructions to buy something I really wanted, that wasn't silly, was of good quality, that I'd enjoy for years, but that I wouldn't usually buy! Thanks mum!

Based on that criteria I'm sure she would have approved, that's a lovely looking bit of kit

Pickers wrote:

Very nice Nick, I must say that my eye was drawn to the coffee machine and cake lurking in the background

.... and the big tub of Castrol Moly grease.
!

That’s some party

Just had another set of Rab baselayer leggings delivered (after melting my favourite ones at the SE winter bivy, just before I went to lapland... already had some other ones thankfully)

Also a pair of Rab Vengeance winter gloves for my trip to Scotland in a week. Plus another pair of outdoor designs ones, will pick my favourite and return the others

An Alkpit Gnaro handlebar bag and some dehydrated meals. The latter are purely to see what they are like as it's a long time since I've tried any.