A mate used to carry a monocle around his neck on a string for reading stuff when out on the bike. Great idea, albeit somewhat eccentric.

My Jones bars felt fine on my Jones, and on my Stooge, until I tried some Stooge Moto bars and realised my Jones bars have been far too low. Night and day.

Next step is a longer steerer for the Jones I reckon.

Haglofs Down pullover half price at £95 on Sportpursuit. Weighs 140g https://www.sportpursuit.com/catalog/product/view/id/1899210?click=eyJxdWVyeSI6MTc4NjEsInBhZ2UiOjEsInBhZ2VTaXplIjo0MiwicG9zIjozNH0= Looks nice, I’d be tempted if I didn’t already have a PHD one. The lack of collar puts me off a bi...

I was unable to attend for DIY reasons too.

JammieP/JimmyyG, what route you thinking? I'm either doing 20 mile from St Mary's Loch (which includes a 1.5 mile bikehike) or 12 from the Samye Ling Buddhist temple. Ray, Preferring to avoid a hike a bike section if possible, I'd been thinking of riding in/out as per Borderer's route i.e. an anti-...

Ray Young wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2019 5:14 pm

AlasdairMc wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 22, 2019 8:38 pm

Has this been agreed then? I’m a maybe for the 14th, but the weekends before and after are fine.

I'd assumed it had been agreed as there have been no naysayers and more than a few ok with it.

Cool, I’ll be along if I can. Dryfehead still the planned venue?

Has this been agreed then? I’m a maybe for the 14th, but the weekends before and after are fine.

I used a Platypus patch on mine and it has been fine since. It was wear at the valve which caused a slow puncture that I spent maybe 10 nights on, too lazy to fix it properly

htrider wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 06, 2019 8:36 pm

Ben Alder area using Culra bothy

Just make sure not to inhale while staying there!

That place last time was good, or we could go to one of the Arrochar / Loch Lomond ones?

Dave Barter wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 19, 2019 9:57 pm

I've just finished my slides for my talk. Please can at least one of you turn up as they took me ages.

I’ll be there too, shouting ‘fish pizza’ every so often.

I was planning to bring a mate to this, who now can’t attend. I’ll therefore have a car space on a convoluted tour.

Leaving Atherstone on Friday at 4, heading to the meet, then driving back on Sunday morning to Edinburgh. If anyone needs a lift on either leg, let me know.

A9 into Inverness is the pissing rain, it’s like being on a motorway but with zero hard shoulder. Very scary and not recommended even in good visibility. You hear another lorry bearing down on you and wonder ‘will this be the one?’ I was going to post the A30 in Cornwall, but then saw you'd posted ...

I’ll be along for this. Unsure if I’ll be doing much rafting as I’m completely last minute - I’m sort of in the area (England and Wales) beforehand so will extend my drive home by a couple of days. Looks great!

Didn’t you end up with a Ti one Ross, or is this a second one you’re after?

Clearing out the shed and I've found a tag-a-long and a trail gator. Don't want money for either but definitely the tag-a-long still has a lot of life left in it. I struggle posting up pictures but if anyone is interested I can pm/email some. Postage might be a faff so would prepare to negotiate ar...

EBBs don’t require any extra tools for punctures - you’re working with vertical dropouts so the wheel drops out as per any other frame. As for SS being heavy, mine is a Ti Stooge and it is really quite light! My other SS is a commuter, a Vitus with sliders. The EBB is a far cleaner solution, but Sal...

Mike wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 19, 2019 12:04 pm

Is anyone on here planning to go within the next few weeks??

Rich and Tom are out there at the moment.

Three of us tried it during a period of nice weather at the start of this year. It wasn’t nice. Mild snow on the Great Glen Way, sleet up the Corrieyairack, and then bitterly cold for a while after that. We binned it near Ardverikie. Don’t pack light, don’t expect winter gloves to remain warm when s...

It’s a bit of a thread revival, but I found this in the search. I’m wondering if anyone has stayed in the other Orrin bothy, as in not the hydro one? Just wondering if it’s likely closed for stalking? Next weekend I’m heading over to Raasay with a mate as we’ve both read Calum’s Road. A night in the...

Yup thats the 'summer route' and officially sanctioned :-bd Postie path will now be death by bracken (and ticks) 11 hours from Ullapool to Poolewe is good going. Looks like she stopped for a swim at Loch na Sealga to The summer route is allowed for an ITT? Is that basically cow sub standard bog the...

Charliecres wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:31 pm

Custom Ti Stooge?

This. I'd considered selling mine many times but can't bring myself to do so. I'm looking at alternative setups for it now though as it's really only getting used as a singlespeed commuter / fun bike now.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 18, 2019 6:58 pm

Maybe we need new stickers - "I pay for all my own kit"

'Bikepacking Superstar' stickers are next on the list

I’d like to see ‘self-declared bikepacking legend’ stickers please.

Coastal grasslands would be similar, or any grim and desperate carrying. Sand dunes perhaps?

I hit 17x17 yesterday with a meandering ride mixing road plodding, some mucky trails and some bog trotting. I only needed to get one square but ended up taking a few more, which will make things easier to start getting bigger scores. Sadly the outliers for 18x18 are on opposite sides of the square ...

Greensykes is getting very popular. Only used Dryfehead once and had it to myself. Yep, me too in Dryfehead. This was in January though so it might be expected - the party lot are less likely to venture out while it’s cold. Gameshope thankfully, and deliberately, doesn’t have a fireplace to keep it...