I'd quite like a hot air balloon. And one of those nice BMC carbon softails with a Lauf fork on it. If you have a friend who sells them and used to race them himself, you may not be wanting one. The black rubber - for complicated reasons I simply can't call it's name - in the seatstay has a very sh...

Custom ti fat bike frame, adventure rather than trail geometry, Suitable for 5" tyres, plus detachable rear rack. Onyx rear hub, SON dynamo front hub, 100mm carbon rims, carbon Jones loop bars, SRAM Eagle 1x12 drivetrain, not sure what brakes. Ti fat bike frame, adventure geo, takes 4.8",...

Here's some bog porn. I rode from Pitlochy past Rannoch Station to Kings House, so the other direction. Some of the landmarks can be well spotted with aerial imagery. Navigation in bad visibility will be dead slow without a rough guiding route to follow. I plotted the route using 50 or 25 k OS maps ...

bloody lovely. i am still trying to get to having just one bike. and for the little bit of offroad i do, i reckon it would be fine. so thinking of selling my ecr and my tourer and buying one. Sounds like a plan to justify a new bike :wink: We all know the right number of bikes is n+1. Why are the c...

journeyman wrote:Has the bog porn been deleted to protect the innocent?

Censored by BB admins.
I'll bribe them.

I know the central section of this has a reputation of boggyness; is it good or should i look for a better alternative to get to the Rannoch area? Nothing too bad. At least if you don't expect to be able to ride all of it. Here's some info to be found too: http://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB3/v...

Just 1.5 h ago, we were told that we could push our fatbikes (tyres still covered with snow) through the restaurant where we had a hot chocolate and some cake (really, really good apple cake and tasty cream), to get access to the cablecar back down to the valley (not possible to ride a bike down the...

I'm happy for summer bivying in the Alps and pretty much anywhere in the UK too with Klymit Inertia X-Lite and two different quilts, though I practically always use some sort of fabric or foil rsp. look for a good bedding of grass, needles etc. For the legs I mostly use a little bit of the tough sor...

I have two quilts in regular use, both with 7d nylon, one must have seen about 150 nights and there's absolutely no sign of use except from being a bit dirty and smelly (yet the down needed some care). My most used winterbag is also completely made of 7d fabric and see loads of use bivying without a...

Just like Surly, though the price is quite different.. Wow. Are we going to name this the 'outlandish comments' thread. Long held grudges thread! :lol: :lol: Creative, not outlandish :wink: Call it what you want. Nobody has to aknowledge my brain farts. It's okay, it's not the first time.

Good way to check and ensure one has drsnk enoigh.. Is mouth/lips feeling dry... if yes drink more Have you been for a wee in the past 4 to 6 hours... if not drink more... if you did go for a wee did it come out like treacle... if so you are in the stages of impending acute kidney injury (urgently ...

I’m assuming it will be similar 7d fabric that would be used on quilts and sleeping bags. In which case - no, not sweaty. I guess a simple sleeping bag liver is one of the easier sewing projects to take on. :-bd Very, very similar. Montbell, Berghaus, Rab, all the very same with a tight Ripstop wea...

DIY from the same fabric I make my quilts. 7d Ripstop Nylon. 60 g. Main reason I use it is to keep my quilts/bags 'clean'. That's interesting, do you have any more info? I had a search in the MYOG forum and couldn't find anything. It sounds sweaty to me! Is it? 7d from Extremtextil.de, just a very ...

DIY from the same fabric I make my quilts. 7d Ripstop Nylon. 60 g. Main reason I use it is to keep my quilts/bags 'clean'. Especially when sleeping without or little clothes, silk is superb, only thing that bothers me is it doesn't last long. Seatosummit make different sizes and seem to last longer ...

He means it was no longer niche/exclusive/special. Everyone interested tried it for them selves and realised it wasn't some magic bullet. *Fat bike owner and proud but it's no magic bullet* Killed it so dead that Salsa, Surly, 9Zero7 and all the other originals are still at it. Loads of other mains...

the quality wasn't great. Nothing terrible but nothing quite right. Just like Surly, though the price is quite different. If you want a packraft, get one from Packrafting.de or Alpacka. From a place that has proven experience. Just buying something for the sake of a cheap deal seems quite wrong to ...

Amazing, the amount of intolerance on here. Never fails to impress me, especially when some then say stuff like 'I don't think we're an intolerant bunch'. I can't speak for anyone else but it never fails to amaze me how apathetic and tolerant of lazy, inaccurate journalism some people can be. Yes, ...

Amazing, the amount of intolerance on here. Never fails to impress me, especially when some then say stuff like 'I don't think we're an intolerant bunch'.

Well we are.

Accept it. Admit it.

I'm off road riding. On my penny. The only thing that will keep me from being sick ontop of peoples cars.

Storing... not really a good choice of word. Have you already tested it's integrity? If not, here's how to do it. https://www.msrgear.com/de/water/trailshot The video says it all. If in doubt, get a new filter cartridge. As soon as water nucleates (read builds ice cristals) it can damage the filter....

frogatthefarriers wrote:

Alpinum wrote: An example for a solo ten day trip with little stoving.

Ten days? I wish! It's hard enough to get a pass-out for three on the WRT

Some are 50 days... some 20, some 2.

Next time, just leave for ten days and when you come back, say you got lost

Bilepacking. I often type that one too. Perhaps we should stick with it. Didn't read the article as to many words related to road make my bile reflux. Which leads to what it actually is. Roadbilepucking I'll ask the presidents of the bikepacking world to make sub categories, so we don't have to be t...

Ahh... the famous fuel discussion. Funny how it always reappears and the same assumptions are made again and again and some will advocate a nuanced viewing point. Again and again :lol: Just weighed one of my small canisters and it's 141g. Probably just over half the gas left in it.150ml of meths is ...

I wash my bags/quilts mostly after about 100 nights in them. No matter how careful I was, they loose loft after good use. Washing them with nikwax has always brought life back to them. I tumble dry them in my modern but regular sized tumble dryer in the lowest setting. Then hang them for at least a ...

Beware, no drop bar related content; All 'regular' bikes I have, have a roughly similar saddle-bar height difference and also overall height. For comfort I just go a tiny little bit shorter on the length, speak stem length and saddle position. The steering will be more direct, which works well with ...

Wondered about the support from sat comms too in terms of emotional support and weather advice etc as opposed to just emergency. Of course. We're all just humans. Exposure and solitude can be suffocating. It's very different if you're traveling with a companion or not. Even just dropping a message ...