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- Wed Sep 18, 2024 9:23 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 450
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Re: What are you reading now?
No spoilers! When I researched The Year I found that riding the railway lines was common in the USA as it was a better choice than waggon trails. Many did it on penny farthings .. nuts In a moment of idle curiosity I was going to try and dig out a photo of railway lines in 1890s America to see what...
- Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:31 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 450
- Views: 67728
Re: What are you reading now?
No spoilers!
When I researched The Year I found that riding the railway lines was common in the USA as it was a better choice than waggon trails. Many did it on penny farthings .. nuts
When I researched The Year I found that riding the railway lines was common in the USA as it was a better choice than waggon trails. Many did it on penny farthings .. nuts
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11484
- Views: 2122249
Re: The post man's been ...
My race number for The Torbay 10k in two weeks time. Not pinned a running one on for 25 years .. what could go wrong?
- Tue Sep 17, 2024 8:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 450
- Views: 67728
Re: What are you reading now?
I’m well into Round The World on a Wheel and am loving every page. Just got past the passage where they got off their bikes and fought Cossacks with pistols and fisticuffs. So much more entertaining than the modern social media friendly tales of endurance boredom. These guys rode on fumes for days, ...
- Mon Sep 16, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 1098
- Views: 174360
- Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 1098
- Views: 174360
- Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 1098
- Views: 174360
Re: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
Smells suspiciously of an AI generated site/idea/wind-up/scam
Googling the founders brings up not a lot for supposed industry experts. The Trustpilot reviews are fake.
Googling the founders brings up not a lot for supposed industry experts. The Trustpilot reviews are fake.
- Thu Sep 12, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Pied d'elephant quilt from old jacket
- Replies: 7
- Views: 480
- Thu Sep 12, 2024 8:28 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lael Wilcox off round the world
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1388
Re: Lael Wilcox off round the world
She may not hold it for long…
- Wed Sep 11, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4204
- Views: 633909
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I stayed in the van at Tarbet in an excellent lay-by..but got midged in the night. Little fuckers got through my roof vents
- Wed Sep 11, 2024 8:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 1098
- Views: 174360
Re: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
Have we done this Ganesha stove?
https://www.ganeshacookstoveproject.com/
I can’t see anything that hasn’t been done before here yet good marketing has got them a sh11t tonne of backing. Maybe should turn our influencer hats on and get Stu funded for a new stove?
https://www.ganeshacookstoveproject.com/
I can’t see anything that hasn’t been done before here yet good marketing has got them a sh11t tonne of backing. Maybe should turn our influencer hats on and get Stu funded for a new stove?
- Sun Sep 08, 2024 6:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: That Tent Question
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3936
Re: That Tent Question
I’ve got a Big Agnes Fly Creek which I really rate. I used it hiking the Cape Wrath Trail in some horrific weather and it held up. Definitely needs the footprint as the base is way too flimsy and it has to be put up inner first which is pants in bad weather. Not enough to make me look elsewhere thou...
- Tue Sep 03, 2024 3:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Has bike packing (off the beaten track ) gone full circle?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6408
Re: Has bike packing (off the beaten track ) gone full circle?
That's just gone to the top of my reading list.
"because we are more or less conceited" <- every influencer ever
"because we are more or less conceited" <- every influencer ever
- Tue Sep 03, 2024 11:08 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Has bike packing (off the beaten track ) gone full circle?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6408
Re: Has bike packing (off the beaten track ) gone full circle?
Early bikepackers? fraser-1899.jpg So much to see here. 1) the hats, no straps so they were heading off at a leisurely pace 2) the pose of the guy in the middle, I suspect frilly knickers and maybe a corset I can't even work out how he is standing up? 3) racks AND framebags 4) no beards 5) could ar...
- Tue Sep 03, 2024 9:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Has bike packing (off the beaten track ) gone full circle?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6408
- Mon Sep 02, 2024 3:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2024
- Replies: 137
- Views: 15812
Re: BB200 2024
2018 were wet. REALLY wet. There was no way you were getting round that one with any part of your clothing not being soaked. Surprisingly about 12hrs in, the weather cleared out. Of course by then it was dark so you needed to keep moving just to stay warm. That was the year of Mr Barter nearly depa...
- Mon Aug 26, 2024 7:44 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Has bike packing (off the beaten track ) gone full circle?
- Replies: 75
- Views: 6408
Re: Has bike packing (off the beaten track ) gone full circle?
My 1st week long tour in 1986 aged 14 with a mate was on a handbuilt steel road bike with 14 speed downtube shifters, a couple of pages torn out of an old road atlas, a cheap steel rack and even cheaper nylon panniers. Everything worked, nothing broke and I survived! Happy days 14 speed! You lucky ...
- Wed Aug 21, 2024 8:22 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Mu travel adaptor
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1436
Re: Mu travel adaptor
I almost did. I need the EU adaptor which I can’t find anywhere. Would be so grateful if you have that
- Sun Aug 18, 2024 4:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Garmin oregon 600 info req
- Replies: 4
- Views: 968
Re: Garmin oregon 600 info req
There is a way by hacking the map style on the device. I really don’t recommend it as you need to know how the Garmin styles work. If you have a typ file on the Oregan then you can edit the style for the Route or Track line. It’s quite involved as typ is a weird format. I have never tried it myself
- Sat Aug 17, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 915
- Views: 162022
Re: Today's Run
Parkrun was considerably faster at 19:31. Can’t work out why as I felt pretty destroyed in the last kilometre.
- Fri Aug 16, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4204
- Views: 633909
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Well done the Rapideye kiddos. Happy Friday here after a few beers watching the sun go down over the harbour
- Fri Aug 16, 2024 2:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Osmand v maps . Me
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1696
Re: Osmand v maps . Me
The massive advantage of OSMAND is that you can add to the map if it is wrong/missing information by becoming an OSM map editor. It's a great app and is privacy focused whereas Google will use whatever workaround they can to get your data.
- Thu Aug 15, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 915
- Views: 162022
Re: Today's Run
Tough week as I build volume and start working on intervals. Today was a pyramid session at 7am. Rest day tomorrow then Parkrun which I suspect will be slower this week
- Sun Aug 11, 2024 7:08 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 915
- Views: 162022
Re: Today's Run
I ran my 5k PB yesterday at Parkrun so pleased to get 19:52. Now working up to the Torquay 10k next month
- Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4204
- Views: 633909
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Cheery Friday here as I have both kids around this weekend (lol both over 25) and no plans apart from much blathering