Oh yes. A rotary cutter makes a huge difference. I use it with a tailor ruler (about 15 x 60 cm) and cutting mat (60 x 60 cm or so).thenorthwind wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:59 pm Looks great!
I've not got a rotary cutter, but may well try one - the cutting out bit takes a lot more time than you think.
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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:07 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Massive top tube bag
- Replies: 7
- Views: 370
Re: Massive top tube bag
Nice job
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:02 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Frame bag number 2
- Replies: 9
- Views: 388
Re: Frame bag number 2
Framebags are superb to get into making soft goods yourself.thenorthwind wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:01 pm Cheers! It's a satisfying project, and might be easier than you think.
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cleaning tyre sealant off a frame
- Replies: 2
- Views: 93
Re: Cleaning tyre sealant off a frame
Usually I get mine (OKO HighFibre, probably same as Milk It stuff) off the carbon frames quite easily with isopropyl alcohol and/or WD40 and a cloth. I have some sealant spots on my bead blasted titanium fatbike frame I can't get off with above solutions and a cloth. Didn't clean it when it happened...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Monks trod - wtf
- Replies: 30
- Views: 894
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:09 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
- Replies: 15
- Views: 535
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Cheers folks
I'm sure there's some info in your answers Google or Chatbots don't know about.
Well now it kind of should know since it's on here, but that wasn't my intention.
I'm sure there's some info in your answers Google or Chatbots don't know about.
Well now it kind of should know since it's on here, but that wasn't my intention.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
- Replies: 15
- Views: 535
Re: This chap has turned up at our local gravel ride
Sean Yates ? I know Simon Yates - the rope cutter :lol: (Touching the Void made him "famous"). But Sean Yates? Before I look him up myself, ask a chatbot search engine, I'd prefer a Bearboner explain him to me... please? Thanks :YMHUG: I'm not surprised the Marin hoody threw you, it's &qu...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Crashing....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 254
Re: Crashing....
[...]Lying on the floor my head felt wet, felt it and thought my brain had leaked out but it was only a large amount of rabbit inards.. [...] Had to read it thrice. Really wasn't sure if you were trying to describe to us the inside of your head or the parts of the buzzard's prey. Now I realise it's...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New (carbon?) wheels
- Replies: 24
- Views: 619
Re: New (carbon?) wheels
I'm looking to upgrade my monstergravel bike and I'm looking at wheels first. I'm a clumsy 90kg(14+stones) rider and use my bike on a bit of everything from tarmac to singletrack, including some gnarly Peak District trails. Tyre widths I use go from 45mm to 2.3". I have 2 cheap 29" alloy ...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend me a decent stills camera
- Replies: 18
- Views: 704
Re: Recommend me a decent stills camera
Thanks very much for the further detailed replies and your experiences, all really valuable to know. :-bd Thanks for reading it all :lol: I need to think how i'm going to process pictures, so any insight into how others use their camera photos would also be useful. I only have a work laptop now, wh...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:52 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 360
Re: Narrow-wide chainrings
I had so much wear in the chain of an all new set-up in under 150 miles that the chain was so slack I had a dropped chain sprinting for a traffic light, less than ideal in the morning traffic :o In my case the issues came after about 500 km. On my ssp bikes I run RaceFace/Easton and Absolute Black ...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 360
Re: Narrow-wide chainrings
Hot tip for ssp mtb riders: If you use a n/w ring, I suggest to use a 11 spd chain and a n/w cog. I'm writing this 'cause I had issues with dropping chains and surprisingly lots of wear running n/w rings, wide ssp cogs (in my case Surly) and any 8 or 9 spd chain I could find (whichever would work wi...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:34 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend me a decent stills camera
- Replies: 18
- Views: 704
Re: Recommend me a decent stills camera
As stated fuji has the retro user interface of an old film camera. Fuji is not full frame, just in case the FF “look” matters to you. What Fuji? Are you meaning the compacts? Not long ago I used a GFX 50S II. Biggest digital sensor I ever took photos with. Basically the first ever camera that's med...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend me a decent stills camera
- Replies: 18
- Views: 704
Re: Recommend me a decent stills camera
Long time (11 or 12 yrs) Oly MFT user here. Coming from mostly Nikon's burly APS-C (DX) and full frame (FX) DSLRs (and never quite quit using them for certain stuff) I was waiting for compact mirrorless camera with bomb proof weather sealing and interchangeable lenses. Oly OM-D E-M5 (I) came out as ...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Which chain lube?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 601
Re: Which chain lube?
Ah, good. Not just me then (the MucOff experience).
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3948
- Views: 484089
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
[...] Aren't bikes brilliant. Indeed! :-bd Was on a nice long ride with loads of new off and on road bits. Crispy cold up top (with fresh snow), warm lover down. Sunny, but not the boring - all blue - kind of sunny. Lovely clouds out and body felt fantastic :-bd After 10 months of tests, scans and ...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Which chain lube?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 601
Re: Which chain lube?
After nearly 30 years with different lubes, starting off as a teenager with the "universal chain lube" from the hardware shop, I went full circle and have been using it again for the last couple of years. I don't find the bike specific stuff to be any better, just much more expensive. Wors...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: One for Reg - The Slate of Tintergel
- Replies: 11
- Views: 311
Re: One for Reg - The Slate of Tintergel
Clearly Ballachulish
Was impressed by the age and state of the tomb stones on Eilean Munde - the isle of the dead - when visited during a stormy kayaking trip, from which Loch Leven gave a bit of a shelter.
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 6:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
- Replies: 88
- Views: 5507
Re: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
Aww, chuffing grand :-bd So happy for you (both) and dog and owl (anything else?). If you had to move, I'm sure you'd have found some other lovely place and took it with your irrepressible positive attitude towards challenges. But of course glad you didn't have to. To a future at Ceulan as long as y...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 289
Re: What to do about this tubeless sealant
I'd probably just ride and keep the pressure in check. I guess after a couple of days the sealant may dry a little on the inside, covering the tyre and sealing it for good.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1014
Re: Lowest useable gear
So along with this ... does anyone else zig-zag up steep climbs [...] When ssp'ing certainly. When I start to struggle with traction when hanging over the bars and pushing & pulling the hell out of the cranks on wide enough off road tracks switchbacking often does the trick. Also roads but just...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How much water do you carry? (inline tricycle content)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 198
Re: How much water do you carry? (inline tricycle content)
Thanks for sharing. I should try to get hold of his book. It never fails to amaze me seeing people wander off, or ride in this case, often driven by pure lust for adventure and trying to do what most find impossible. It never fails to amaze me what willpower, determination and a bicycle can do. Ther...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1014
Re: Lowest useable gear
I really like to be able to read out my speed at a given cadence (I just tend to count revolutions per a certain time frame - only a rough estimate, but works well in practise) to figure how slow/fast I can go with certain gears. https://www.bikecalc.com/archives/speeds-at-cadence.html For those who...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1014
Re: Lowest useable gear
Possibly up the Dylife valley... I usually head up the track out the back of BBTowers but have come down the Dylife descent... I'd definitely be walking up that. Or it could be the grassy climb heading out the back of the Towers then up towards NYA.. Or pretty much any other direction from the Towe...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1014
Re: Lowest useable gear
Also depends if multiday or one day. If one day 'happy' to red line at walking pace multi day I am off and walking to conserve energy. same here Like you say, everyone is different. One person's sit and spin is another person's get off and walk, depends how big your lungs and legs are. Me, I like a...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 7:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3948
- Views: 484089
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
He looks like someone's just confiscated his last bit of cake or something. So does the owl come to that. :wink: :lol: Great portrait of both :-bd Got a new job. News came in last Thursday. By chance had meant to meet me Mum on Friday and Dad today anyways, so was nice to celebrate :grin: Away from...