I was tempted by the Middleburns as I used to own a Duo, but the crankset is a lot pricer than I remember.

I am building up my old Chameleon ready for the dreadful weather and am going to SS it. I've got just about everything lying around the garage but though I'd treat myself to a single crankset up front. Can anyone recommend anything? Also in the old days I did this using a BMX chain, has it all moved...

numplumz wrote:Sportspursuit have a deal on short best before date Cliff Buildbars, a really good protein bar that tastes great. I rate them.

They freeze well. I bought a large number from CRC a while back for silly money as they only had a month to go.

Sportspursuit have a deal on short best before date Cliff Buildbars, a really good protein bar that tastes great. I rate them. They freeze well. I bought a large number from CRC a while back for silly money as they only had a month to go. *edit, just noticed you said Buildbars, I froze the standard...

If its this hard to get a seal at home iv got no chance on the trail So far I have never had to reseat on the trail, I have managed to fix nearly every puncture with a weldtite kit and get the tyre back up with a normal pump. I cannot recommend these kits highly enough once you get the hang of them...

Mine made it without incident. I'm wearing it with pride to work tomorrow.

ps. bit disappointed with the **

I really enjoyed this video it brought back many memories and I could really empathise with Zoe at the end.

They were all removed by some particularly harsh tussocks near Coed-Y-Brenin

Look what fell out of my birthday card today ;-)

The prices are way off the scale for me.

Yes

Go Outdoors is full of cycle tat and has stores everywhere. Yet people still buy decent kit online from the right suppliers. The seatpost strap on my Wildcat Tiger convinced me as I reckon it must take a lot of force over time attempting to negate the swing. Not convinced by those Blackburn straps, ...

Gutted at the WRT/Caingorms clash

Thanks but they forged ahead without waiting, article is on Bikepacker magazine site now and they simply took a few images out of the video.

Would anyone on here who posted pics mind if they got used in an article (online/paper) covering the BB200. I have someone interested in my piece but I took bugger all pictures. There's no cash in it I'm afraid, I'm getting nowt.

Let me know if I could use some of yours

I'll add a few things to a lot of the excellent advise above:- 1) when things go wrong, stop take a deep breath and control the urge to rush any repair of remedy. I broke my light mount and subsequently fecked up a cable tie repair losing 10 minutes to a solution that ultimately didn't work at all. ...

If you need some wattle and daub....I can point you at four good sources of wattle

Yes. There has also been a lot of inspection nothing seems untoward (not sure this thread is going in the right direction)

Sounds like your system might just be a bit shell-shocked

Possibly, but the pain is quite sharp, in the past I've felt more drained than painful.

Good point on the volume. Maybe the bottle of red Sunday evening....

On Saturday I ran out of water on the Bwlch climb to Barmouth and stopped at a stream at the top to fill my bottle. I put a chlorine tablet in and did not drink anything as the instructions said "wait 30 minutes". At Barmouth I emptied it out and refilled it with juice instead but stupidly...

It was a bit off route, trust me to no advantage. I veered too far left then had to thrutch back across more tussocks and climb over a wall ended up prolonging the bike-a-hike.

Right, I can see what has happened. The stitching has stripped the "stopped" segments which explains the super speedy zip over hike-a-bike as I was (effectively in the eyes of the GPS) stopped a lot. I'm therefore hoping I'm still allowed my A493 Kom as I did not stop and analysing the seg...

Entirely possible as I had to stitch two files together to make one. I wonder if Strava is somehow compressing the segments as a result.

BUT I am not having it that I didn't ride the whole course as there were plenty who heard my swearing at the key points of hell throughout!

I was all over the place at the beginning of that clearly!