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- Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:33 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 490
- Views: 22026
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I'd originally planned to get out last week but riding home from work in the rain on the chosen day made me suspicious that weather forecast for dry and clear might not have been right :lol: I pushed it back to Monday but looking out the kitchen window on Monday evening to see rain bouncing off the ...
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Gobowen->Berwyns: Wayfarer & Dirt Bike School 13-15 April 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 138
Re: Gobowen->Berwyns: Wayfarer & Dirt Bike School 13-15 April 2024
Excellent work there Not seeing the issue with the footbridge Obviously it's on the bank to stop it being washed away
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:37 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 490
- Views: 22026
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Thankfully I decided to head towards Wicken Wild Camping (currently shut) It's a shame that they closed this place :cry: When I phoned them about booking it in December last year, they said they were hoping to open it again later this year. I'm assuming the composting loo needed moving or something...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 496
Re: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
@slarge, I did know that, which highlights just how bad planes are.
If I had to do a 3000 mile round trip and could afford the fuel I'd take the SC RR, it would be the best place to be plus I do 3000 miles a year riding my bike to work instead of driving so that counts as offsetting?
If I had to do a 3000 mile round trip and could afford the fuel I'd take the SC RR, it would be the best place to be plus I do 3000 miles a year riding my bike to work instead of driving so that counts as offsetting?
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 496
Re: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
Just fly and when you get there tell them you drove there in a supercharged Range Rover, when they kick off about the fuel consumption tell them you flew as it's a lower carbon footprint
Javi would ride there
Javi would ride there
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
- Replies: 29
- Views: 534
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
- Replies: 29
- Views: 534
Re: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
having previously been here other than they were on the Mainland and 7000 years ago we were connected to the Mainland As you were connected to the mainland for 6000 years after the ice sheets retreated it may be a fair assumption that at the time of separation beavers were on the island, how long t...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
- Replies: 29
- Views: 534
Re: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
That puts in my mind a vision of someone pointing sternly at a Beaver gnawing a tree down - "NO!" If they are introduced* here I'll have to say NO in a stren voice when I pass :lol: * I say 'introduced' as it appears there's no evidence for them having previously been here other than they...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
- Replies: 29
- Views: 534
Re: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
There were objections to the introduction
Sadly this sign is gone now as always made me smile when I rode past
Sadly this sign is gone now as always made me smile when I rode past
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 10:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
- Replies: 29
- Views: 534
Re: Happy 'International Beaver Day'
Still not seen any beaver on my comutte, but given the weather and the state of the area it may be too wet for them
I'll have to see what happened to the proposal to introduce them here.
I'll have to see what happened to the proposal to introduce them here.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 490
- Views: 22026
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 10:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hap.... no, I'm saying nowt :)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 455
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 8:23 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hap.... no, I'm saying nowt :)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 455
Re: Hap.... no, I'm saying nowt :)
Does he have 2 a year like the Queen used to? It only seems like 5 minutes since the last one! But thanks anyway - to him not you Reg.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:32 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 490
- Views: 22026
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
What has happened to our weather when someone who lives on an island off the south coast (practically the Med) is mentioned in dispatches for the coldest bivi
I wish it was still -4 as it would be dry.
I wish it was still -4 as it would be dry.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 1906
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
And on the Crane cousins Journey to the Centre of the Earth they used panniers, and were incredibly minimal. There's TLS, then there's take even less than that and then there's what the Cranes packed for that journey. On the front cover the panniers look to be about 10 litres max. Great book, I've ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 83
- Views: 1906
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
I don't see how anyone can legitimately claim one usage is in some way the correct usage. Of course we can, you do know this is the intent and that's how it works :wink: I think if you travel by bike from place to place carrying all the stuff you need for that journey then it's bikepacking. It's no...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 490
- Views: 22026
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I left home near Halifax at 1am Saturday, caught the sunrise in the Forest of Bowland and arrived in Morecambe at 7am. I'm beginning to suspect that you may have something wrong with you :wink: Who leaves home at 1am :???: Another cracking ride John :-bd It's making me feel rather lazy reading that...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4931
- Views: 1207653
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Howwwww much??? You mean you don't want to curate your kit down to the last detail...? 🤔 Was just about to post that quote too :smile: . Utterly hilarious. If you're only "sipping" from it what's the point of the "innovative high flow design"? (its got a bigger spout?) Stop it R...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Bum bag cover
- Replies: 2
- Views: 115
Re: Bum bag cover
I made one for mine, so nice to be able to hose the cover off and chuck it in the washing machine and have a clean bag underneath.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 490
- Views: 22026
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
So has anyone studied what looks like an inverse correlation between the time remaining in the month to get in a bivvy, and the likelihood of it being raining? I think it's more that it rains every day (since October) but as the end of the month approaches and the time remaining for that month's BA...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tarmacs Route Planner?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 374
Re: Tarmacs Route Planner?
Just had a quick play and it routes you along footpaths and the wrong way down one-way streets, so might need a bit of refining yet
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Monks trod - wtf
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1036
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Monks trod - wtf
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1036
Re: Monks trod - wtf
I used to be the Chairman of the IOW4x4 Club (many years ago) and we had a code of conduct for green lane use that 'should' prevent damage. When they closed the longest lane on the Island the idiots still drove it and damaged it, there's not the resources to police it. Also from my 4x4 days, we were...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11441
- Views: 1919617
Re: The post man's been ...
An 11 speed cassette, not in itself of much interest but, this will be my last ever parcel from Wiggle/CRC
Since I got back into cycling in 2007 they've always been there when I needed them. There wasn't even a last packet of Haribo, end of an erea.
Since I got back into cycling in 2007 they've always been there when I needed them. There wasn't even a last packet of Haribo, end of an erea.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 109
- Views: 2312
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
£100 an hour for skilled labour We live in very different worlds if you think £100 an hour is a reasonable hourly wage for any human beimg to earn. ( shaf is a nurse and is nowhere near that for example nor is a teacher etc or indeed almost anyone working. £100 an hour isn't what they earn it's wha...