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- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22143
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Having arrived at the bothy to find it full upstairs (three uni students studying outdoor activities and leadership apparently!) I tried to squeeze in downstairs, which made of a less than ideal space 3 upstairs, they must be good friends! That bothy is full with one person in it, overflowing with ...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hammock in the garden
- Replies: 14
- Views: 267
Re: Hammock in the garden
I'd have thought any pair of A frames with a top rail using those 3-way metal sockets would do it. Similar to the 'bike weigh' frame at WRT or pub garden swing/slide type frame.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 5:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The next Eclipse
- Replies: 29
- Views: 584
Re: The next Eclipse
I believe she lives in Portugal these days so she won't be too far away. At least she won't be lost in France
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 1922
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
I believe they have a bike packing area at St Pancras Station for the Eurostar. Apparently it's where you can pack your bike.
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:46 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
- Replies: 29
- Views: 534
Re: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
Aye, and on Greathough Brook in Forest of Dean
... and they have been breeding
... and they have been breeding
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: packable fleece?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 750
Re: packable fleece?
This talk about functional clothing reminded me of my wool jumpers, especially the one made of lettlopi (an Icelandic wool), which are, for specific weather, incredibly functional. Best is, my girlfriend made them :-bd Way, way back my mother crocheted a short-sleeved jumper for me which worn next ...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hap.... no, I'm saying nowt :)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 455
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: packable fleece?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 750
Re: packable fleece?
I practically live in short-zip long-sleeved fleece tops. Comfy as! They squidge up a bit more bulky but how many would you be carrying?
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 6:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 1922
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
CyclingUK seem to have a lot of content on the topic and discussion: https://www.cyclinguk.org/article/cycle-touring-and-bikepacking-whats-difference if it gets more folks out on their bikes then it's all good :wink: Of course, Cycling UK were formerly CTC, the Cyclists Touring Club, and if I remem...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:31 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22143
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I went beyond two sentences and read the whole post. A picture paints a thousand words but your fewer words did indeed paint the picture(s) for me. Except... in my mind those pictures mostly had a Scottish mountain in the background until I realised they were in fact 'selfies'
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 1922
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
Just trying to tally up past and future riding with the currently designated boundaries so I don't stray too close to being fashionable, doing what I would have done anyway. :wink: I think that's probably the point though, there really aren't any "currently designated boundaries". Or rath...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:07 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 1922
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
Interestingly now that 'self supported' has been mentioned, they refer to their journey in the article as "... a self-supported, multi-day adventure." In these days of marketing, influencers, social media, diversity, bike manufacturing, adventure holidays, self-identification... maybe we'r...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 1922
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
thenorthwind wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:08 pm I knew exactly what this was going to be about before I opened it
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 1922
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
Thanks for that insight Jack, very valid points :-bd In the last decade or so, the term seems to have become a bit linked to soft strap-on luggage rather than traditional racks and panniers. It's interesting that rear racks are increasingly being favoured along with soft strap-on luggage, albeit lig...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 1922
Is this 'bikepacking'?
I've just had a nosey through the latest Cycle magazine (the magazine of Cycling UK) and there is an article titled Great Rides Bikepacking Beginners [subtitled: Bivvying under a tarp isn't the only bikepacking option]. So far so good. The article relates the story of a couple of gents who went on a...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 27
- Views: 683
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 27
- Views: 683
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:39 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4931
- Views: 1208085
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Apparently "squeezing slows you down".
If I slowed down anymore I'd fall off the bike, so maybe I need a couple of these
If I slowed down anymore I'd fall off the bike, so maybe I need a couple of these
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:31 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 1125
- Views: 190732
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:27 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 27
- Views: 683
Re: WRT GR's
Mmmm... just got to decide whether to have Sunday morning breakfast in Newtown, dinner in Llangollen or vice versa?
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:46 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Trans cambrian way improvements.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 322
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Trans cambrian way improvements.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 322
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
- Replies: 15
- Views: 628
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
I did think that just before I posed (only because of the ear ring) but the Marin hoody completely threw me. Was initially thinking one of the repack lads from back in the day (again, due to the hoody) :oops: I'm not surprised the Marin hoody threw you, it's "Made in" !!! :lol: :wink:
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Barkley Marathons chitchat
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2827
Re: Barkley Marathons chitchat
Crikey that were a close hobbling thing! I think she's the first Brit to finish it - the early years on the spreadsheet don't have nationality so can't be sure. Largest ever number of finishers despite “That new section is brutal. You are a bad man.” Crazy. Imagine the mental state, just 2 minutes ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1049
Re: Lowest useable gear
WRT 2022? I remember riding up a steep grassy slope not long after leaving the Towers, passing a couple of groups, regrouping and chatting at the gate near the top. If it was me you met, let's say I was doing well to hide the effort if you think I was casually chatting to you. It was indeed you Gia...