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- Sun Jun 08, 2025 10:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Iceland Divide 2024: need advice on tent, sleeping mat and stove
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6703
Re: Iceland Divide 2024: need advice on tent, sleeping mat and stove
How do you find the Defy? Its fine. Does require a working phone but only £5 per month ( but only 5 messages and no tracking ) I carry it loads but rarely use ( has always worked when i sent a text ) it as not needed to use SOS and dont really bother texting. No " free" message like the i...
- Sun Jun 08, 2025 1:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Iceland Divide 2024: need advice on tent, sleeping mat and stove
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6703
Re: Iceland Divide 2024: need advice on tent, sleeping mat and stove
Had an inreach and now a motorolla defy IMHO its better to have and never use than need and not have ( i have ne er bothered with trqckong personally..people know I can contact them if i am in trouble so no news is good news. It's like travel insurence or car breakdown recovery or an inner tube and ...
- Sat Jun 07, 2025 11:51 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Retrogrouching (new XTR content)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 763
Re: Retrogrouching (new XTR content)
Still not seeing what problem that fixes 

- Sat Jun 07, 2025 8:09 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Retrogrouching (new XTR content)
- Replies: 49
- Views: 763
Re: Retrogrouching (new XTR content)
No to internal routing. I dont bother using it myself. Just means you cannot take your brakes or mech of ( or forks on road bikes ) and aesthetically I can only see the bars and the front wheel. I dont see what problem it is trying to fix tbh. I have sram 1 x12 road shifter with mtb mech. Its good a...
- Wed Jun 04, 2025 11:51 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Volunteer tandem riding for the blind
- Replies: 4
- Views: 210
Re: Volunteer tandem riding for the blind
Contacted the bury one.
Also not a FB user will message OP
Also not a FB user will message OP
- Sat May 31, 2025 5:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Back/bikepacking bidet
- Replies: 19
- Views: 456
Re: Back/bikepacking bidet
Yes , who is going to take a (s)hit for the team
- Sat May 31, 2025 3:48 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Hydrodynamicists! piss bottle slosh reduction?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 617
Re: Hydrodynamicists! piss bottle slosh reduction?
I know fuel tanks use foam to stop fuel sloshing about but you would then, presumably need a straw or some serious sucking to extract all the water.
- Sat May 31, 2025 3:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Back/bikepacking bidet
- Replies: 19
- Views: 456
Re: Back/bikepacking bidet
So glad it had a picture of it on a bottle as was worried you used it like a bottle stopper up yer ****
No experience of them at all.

No experience of them at all.
- Sat May 24, 2025 6:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11651
- Views: 2495627
Re: The post man's been ...
Post upma review on it will yousupposedly this is better anyway.
FWIW i have a 15 mm dynamo hub on a 21 mm rim.so its ok.for road gravel and mtb ( withing reason ) but interested in a review of the above.
- Fri May 23, 2025 8:01 am
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Son to sinewave wiring tips
- Replies: 7
- Views: 322
Re: Son to sinewave wiring tips
I bought these and then just used the actual.connections (.not the plugs ) which can be crimped on to your wire and then covered with shrink wrap. They just push toether and give a tight connection. One worked loose* when pushed together after about 2 years but a gentle bend of it made it firm again...
- Tue May 13, 2025 7:04 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Best bikepacking bike?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 2751
Re: Best bikepacking bike?
Really depends on what you want( it for terrain wise) a rigid or a suspension bike .
No one bike is the best for all scenarios.
I own 3 sonders including a broken road , never had an issue with any of them.
No one bike is the best for all scenarios.
I own 3 sonders including a broken road , never had an issue with any of them.
- Sat May 10, 2025 7:41 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Gloves...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 841
Re: Gloves...
https://www.merlincycles.com/gripgrab-shark-padded-full-finger-summer-gloves-309752.htmla Bought these recently ( out of stock now but available elsewhere i assume)and done a couple of 20 hour rides withour hand issues. Fingers have no seams ( or none at end as my finger nails usally hole gloves ove...
- Wed May 07, 2025 9:19 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Wanted …. Hope shifter adaptor
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1879
Re: Wanted …. Hope shifter adaptor
Can you do a link for what it looks like ?
I have a hope shimano one and iirc its a flat bar to connect with 3 holes, is that the right one ?
I have a hope shimano one and iirc its a flat bar to connect with 3 holes, is that the right one ?
- Tue May 06, 2025 4:02 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD bar end plugs to go under slide on grips
- Replies: 4
- Views: 434
Re: WTD bar end plugs to go under slide on grips
Probably got some to give away cheap plastic push ins that come with bar tape if any use .
Not at home to check till thursday
Not at home to check till thursday
- Tue May 06, 2025 8:11 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Stoves and dry ground…
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1281
Re: Stoves and dry ground…
In most cases, it can take as little as one month, perfect, right? Well, in the wrong conditions it could take anywhere in between one and three years for it to fully decompose. And in the wrong conditions your poo.would still take longer than the paper. The claim is toilet paper decomposes faster ...
- Sat May 03, 2025 8:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Stoves and dry ground…
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1281
Re: Stoves and dry ground…
The paper takes months less than your poo to decompose
- Fri May 02, 2025 3:17 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Lakes BW advice grassmere-easdale gill stonethwaite
- Replies: 4
- Views: 715
Re: Lakes BW advice grassmere-easdale gill stonethwaite
I was hoping for something a bit clearer
Thanks ( both now )
Looks for another route

Thanks ( both now )
Will rigid and + tyres helpI got so annoyed



Looks for another route
- Fri May 02, 2025 1:19 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Lakes BW advice grassmere-easdale gill stonethwaite
- Replies: 4
- Views: 715
Lakes BW advice grassmere-easdale gill stonethwaite
As above has anyone ever done it ?
I have looked on geograph but wondered if there was any real world view.
I have looked on geograph but wondered if there was any real world view.
- Sat Apr 26, 2025 2:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3510
Re: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
Reduce should come before renewable Its not either or ; reducing and relying on fossil fuels slows damage down but its the equivalent of smoking less cigaregttes or having one packet of biscuits a day and not two. Its a improvement but its not the solution. That is before we get to the change to el...
- Thu Apr 24, 2025 7:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lakeland 200 starting point
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3604
Re: Lakeland 200 starting point
Its dooable i the sense you could do anything on any bike . You could do it on a unicyxle if you wanted.
Its not the best tool for the job as you would walk all the best bits/ many downhills
Its not the best tool for the job as you would walk all the best bits/ many downhills
- Wed Apr 23, 2025 8:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3510
Re: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
Nothing can meet your high bar of green as that would mean no resources used to produce itor the end product of electricty . In this case coal can emit around 740-1689 g CO2e/kWh, while hydropower emits only about 4 g CO2e/kWh.I would suggest its not hard to see why renewable energy is called green ...
- Wed Apr 23, 2025 3:48 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3510
Re: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
It shouldn't be forgotten that 'green energy' (sorry, no such thing) is often simply a exercise in box ticking with very large sums of grant and subsidy money dished out in various directions I could not disagree more, its a genuine attempt to have renewable energy that addds less ( billions of ton...
- Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3510
Re: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
Or just like when folk complain about traffic , when they are also traffic , some of us expect solutions that dont involve us doing anyhing.. others shall give up cars , others should have turbines Nimbyism will always be an issue even though we all know we cannot rely on imported gas as its really ...
- Mon Apr 21, 2025 4:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3510
Re: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
The Barnett formula needs reviewing but UK govt seems unable to get its finger out to do so - sound familiar?... Yes its never scotlands (our) fault its always someone else,(them) usually the english ? Its often true mind, its not like we vote tory. My point still stands scotland does benefit from ...
- Mon Apr 21, 2025 12:20 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
- Replies: 30
- Views: 3510
Re: Lochan na h-Earba pump storage hydro scheme
The barnett formula where by scotland gets higher per capita spending than the rest of the uk and more tax money spent than it generates , that sort of thing? Its also kinda of obvious that densely populated places need the power and low demsity areas have the space. I dont really see a green altern...