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by sean_iow
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
Replies: 4
Views: 80

Re: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge

Good idea :-bd So to clarify, can we use paid for accommodation during the trip? Rules as per BAM, except any accommodation is acceptable for part of the trip to allow for the unpredictability of longer trips. However, at least half of the nights must be BAM-compliant. For example, on Mike's Canals ...
by sean_iow
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:23 pm
Forum: Classifieds
Topic: Potential Emergency Carbon Fork Needed
Replies: 4
Views: 129

Re: Potential Emergency Carbon Fork Needed

There's a Prong on STW, was still there this morning.
by sean_iow
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:22 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
Replies: 6
Views: 187

Re: Matthew Fairbrother

I was going to suggest they change the format so they were all self-supported to give him a better chance.... oh hang on he won anyway :o

How must the other riders be feeling after getting beaten by a guy who rode all the way when they arrived fresh from the truck/helicopter.
by sean_iow
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Congratulations, another excellent trip there :-bd Mrs Perrin was as thrilled as ever as I covered the washing line with all my soaking wet kit. Ahh, the post bivi kit drying :grin: If it's raining mine gets hung about the house, I even have some strategic screw eyes in the picture rail* in the dini...
by sean_iow
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:27 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3932
Views: 465009

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Just partaken of a pleasant luncheon. Chatted with my pal at the Council about how he's going to spend the £1m we managed to wangle for new cycleways and footpaths around the town, so that was nice. Based on the rates for HS2 I'd estimate that £1M will be enough to construct nearly 12m of new cycle...
by sean_iow
Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:58 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Mike took the bridge picture so should get the credit.

When we got to the hide we worked out which side we normally lay on, me on my left and Mike on his right, then worked out which side of the floor to have so as not to wake up face to face inches apart :lol:
by sean_iow
Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:24 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

This is my official BAM entry for March so ignore the previous hammock one. Mike (from Bromsgrove) has never seen the Island and has been threatening to come down for the last few years. He had a few days off and the forecast was good so he rode here to get the opportunity to ride some more :lol: I ...
by sean_iow
Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

The number of times I've woken up with a start thinking someone is shinning a torch in my face only to realise the clouds have cleared and it's the moon :lol: Unless you sleep outside you don't realise just how light it is on a full moon, but it needs to be otherwise how would the werewolves see whe...
by sean_iow
Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:47 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3932
Views: 465009

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

I heard the longing for proper controls in cars like we used to have is...

Knobstalgia :lol:
by sean_iow
Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

This one is an extra bivi for the month but before my much more exciting real bivi later this week :???: Needed to get out as I've ended up with a weird tradition where whenever I have a new bike or a substantially changed bike the first ride*, and I mean the very first ride, is a bivi. Having built...
by sean_iow
Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:33 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
Replies: 9
Views: 351

Re: Narrow-wide chainrings

I'm pretty sure that I've not engaged the clutch on my derailleur for several years, the NW works well enough. Me either :wink: 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 going to try this. I currently run a NW chainring, narrow ss chain an...
by sean_iow
Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:02 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Replies: 101
Views: 2677

Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn

As has been said, getting people to change if it is an inconvenience is the issue. Several of my friends have electric cars... they are all 2.5 tonnes + and 500bhp+. If they were tiny and slow would they be so keen, I doubt it. On a lighter note :wink: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53559524793...
by sean_iow
Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:49 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

gecko76 wrote: Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:40 pm How did you get it to write r-i-g?
How many others?
If you click to reply with quote you'll be able to see what they've written.

Microadventure is another one = short ride.
by sean_iow
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:45 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Bearlegged wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:23 pm New shelter arrived this morning, a second hand Deschutes.
I've had mine for nearly 5 years yet somehow your first pitch appears to be better than any I've managed in that time :roll:

Was it dark when you pitched it? I seem to get better results when I'm rushing and cant see :lol:
by sean_iow
Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:25 pm
Forum: MYOG
Topic: Massive top tube bag
Replies: 6
Views: 303

Re: Massive top tube bag

Nice work :-bd sorting the order of construction is the key to making stuff. I was saying to a friend the other day that sewing gear is just like fabricating in sheet metal but with a sewing machine instead of a welder, once you've worked out the sizes, order of construction and cut the parts you've...
by sean_iow
Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:58 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Another one
Replies: 5
Views: 327

Re: Another one

Happy Birthday Mike...just seen its the big one, all down hill from 50.... but maybe it just seemed like that as my 50th was Feb 2020 and we all know what happened in the March. I don't have a copy of 'that' photo with the found outfit so instead here's a picture of Javi, Mike and myself on top of H...
by sean_iow
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you drinking now?
Replies: 704
Views: 68486

Re: What are you drinking now?

Brewdog Rattle and Rum, rum and oak chip stout, 7.4% and it's very nice.
by sean_iow
Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:22 pm
Forum: Anyone playing out?
Topic: GB Duro Entries open
Replies: 37
Views: 935

Re: GB Duro Entries open

Not a race but you get "ranked" Sections that are "cheeky" But seen as the premier UK backpacking event No fly, no plastic, fires OK :-bd And if you win you must use your Instagram account (and all the new followers you'll have) to promote flying all over the world and riding :w...
by sean_iow
Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:51 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Access Islands
Replies: 3
Views: 225

Re: Access Islands

I'd seen that article on the BBC. There are a couple of open access areas on the Island where rights of way go past the boundaries but there is no way (that I have found) in to them :???: One of which looks a possible bivi location but unless I'm climbing over a high fence I cant work out how I'd ge...
by sean_iow
Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:43 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Tubeless question
Replies: 11
Views: 322

Re: Tubeless question

The most important thing is once you have switched over to carry a plug kit, I use this one https://nukeproof.com/products/horizon-tubeless-tyre-repair-kit But I have also used the Lezyne ones. If you get a puncture that won't seal then you can plug it. The alternative option of fitting a tube will ...
by sean_iow
Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:38 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Hopefully some were out last night. Down here at least the forecast from now until the end of the month is rain, he says smugly having managed to get out last week when the rain was only in the middle of the night :grin: On the plus side, when it's raining you're pretty much guaranteed to have the w...
by sean_iow
Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Not as exciting as Reg's recent exploits but I did go on the correct day :wink: Another school-night bivi, I sleep as well (if not better) on the bivis as I do at home so no issue with going to work the next day. I left home just after 8 which even after all these times still feels a little bit naug...
by sean_iow
Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:37 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18433

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Excellent work there Reg :-bd

The rain Gods may often be against you but the other deities seem to be on your side, like the God of being offered dry places to sleep and the God of unexpected breakfasts.
by sean_iow
Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:53 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
Replies: 65
Views: 1703

Re: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?

Yet, if we'd like to save the planet, then eradicating the human race as quickly as possible would likely provide the best outcome. You've hit the nail on the head there Stu. I've said to my friends that my only hope is that we manage to make ourselves extinct before we damage the planet so much th...
by sean_iow
Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
Replies: 65
Views: 1703

Re: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?

I once described a uk event that had a rule about 'no fly and having to use public transport' to get to the start as tokenism. This upset some on here who I assume know the organisers. My point was that myself (and I'm sure others too) live where the public transport links make it a pain to get to t...