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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Potential Emergency Carbon Fork Needed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 108
Re: Potential Emergency Carbon Fork Needed
There's a Prong on STW, was still there this morning.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
- Replies: 6
- Views: 158
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
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.
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.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
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...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3932
- Views: 464494
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...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
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
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
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
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 ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
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...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3932
- Views: 464494
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I heard the longing for proper controls in cars like we used to have is...
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- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
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...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 350
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...
- 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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I've had mine for nearly 5 years yet somehow your first pitch appears to be better than any I've managed in that timeBearlegged wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:23 pm New shelter arrived this morning, a second hand Deschutes.
Was it dark when you pitched it? I seem to get better results when I'm rushing and cant see
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Massive top tube bag
- Replies: 6
- Views: 301
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...
- 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...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you drinking now?
- Replies: 704
- Views: 68449
Re: What are you drinking now?
Brewdog Rattle and Rum, rum and oak chip stout, 7.4% and it's very nice.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: GB Duro Entries open
- Replies: 37
- Views: 933
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...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
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...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
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...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 387
- Views: 18412
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Excellent work there Reg
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.
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.
- 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: 1701
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...
- 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: 1701
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...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Woods Rat Run
- Replies: 14
- Views: 804
Re: Woods Rat Run
I'm not local (Isle of Wight) but I can see it from Freshwater... which isn't much help. East of the pier there is a cliff-top road which I remember as being quiet but west of the pier it was much harder to pick my way through as the roads don't really align. I ended up on the main road going past t...