All is well! Eventually. :-bd It took me three goes to get the lacing-up right. Followed the instructions from the Wheel-Pro book but hit snags and didn’t have the knowledge to see where I’d gone wrong so it was easier just to strip and start again. Truing up in the bike frame was easy by comparison...

So I now have a new rim and can start swapping over, but, a couple of things have made it a bit harder. a) The new rim is not quite the same. For one, it’s got more of a curve in the cross-section so the ERD is smaller and 2) the spoke holes are slightly staggered. I’m probably over-thinking this an...

Thanks for all the tip/helpful advice chaps. Just waiting for my new rim before I embark on my new rite-of-passage that will make me less of a frog at the farriers.

Right then Mr Frog... This was the exciting news I mentioned earlier... https://i.imgur.com/I9JJE5L.jpeg If of any interest and the price is right (all money will go straight to the Syria/Turkey Earthquake relief effort) then I could part with these beauties... Only reason the front is unlaced is c...

Thanks for the replies chaps. All I've got to do now is learn how to lace a wheel. This could end badly. It might be easier and safer to look for a complete wheel. Align the new rim on top of the wheel and tape them together. Remove one spoke at a time from the wheel and place it into the appropria...

Lu kindly invited me to partake of breakfast in his luxury accommodation, although we both declined to consume any of the stash of porridge or baked beans (although Lu carried the Pringles round for the rest of the weekend! Once you pop.....) I did carry the pringles the rest of the way. In fact, I...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2023 2:57 pm No, it won't really make any difference Lu.

Thanks for the replies chaps. All I've got to do now is learn how to lace a wheel. This could end badly. It might be easier and safer to look for a complete wheel.

40mm rim here, 32 hole https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/wtb-kom-tough-i40-tcs-rim/rp-prod175848 Am I missing something here? I'd assumed that the i45 rims were 45mm, but if that’s not the case it opens up the options. Realistically speaking, I don’t s'pose 2.5 mm each side wouldn’t make that muc...

For my recent trip to the Peaks with RIP and Raggedstone, my bike of choice was the Ramin but I found that it’s got cracks in the rear wheel rim - around the spokes. I had to use the fattie instead. The wheel is the WTB Scraper i45 650b+ that came with the bike. I can’t find one. Not even just the r...

What a fab weekend, thanks Lu, although I woke up yesterday feeling like I'd spent two days tumbling inside a washing machine :roll: :-bd . Still, can't be all bad, am 64 as of 30 seconds ago but as we said on our ride we all still feel about 10 years old... bikin', dens, ripped trousers, grazed kn...

I was hoping RIP or Raggedstone would get going on our trip-in-the-peaks report, but nothing happening so... I drove up to Macclesfield on Friday night to meet Reg and Kev at the station for the start. It would have cost £15 to park for two days on the station car park so I opted for a cheaper (free...

thenorthwind wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 10:59 pm I expect much fun will be had

'T was...

This 'un would be a BaM, but there'll be another one from the Peaks soon, so here goes. A ride from home. I've bivvied in nettles, in wild garlic (phew!), in violets, in primroses, in bluebells and in wood anemones. Todays' aim was to sleep in snowdrops. The ride was mostly on tarmac or towpath, - n...

Krupnik - in a graveyard full of snowdrops

*bugger - i find I've got to get out (and back in) to this bivvy bag before I go to sleep..

An easy ride today, on lanes and towpath and two tunnels, to see a choo-choo train on a viaduct. :grin: Pictures. Tunnel... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52652629288_e6eb858628.jpg Train on viaduct... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52651657287_b12a60c2d5.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/...

voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 7:58 pm Nate’s in the 60threads aren’t that nice, ridiculously heavy. …… there is about 400-500g difference between the two versions

500 grammes. That’s lot of extra inertia to get moving.

(a) The 120tpi Nate is a much more supple beast than the 60tpi equivalent. I'd not hesitate to pay the extra cost. A good answer. I think I’ll go with that. (b) The 26 x 4" tyres may well be on the same carcase as the Nate and will actually be the same dimensions. This may well be true, but I ...

WRT last May I managed to get a hole in my fatbike tyre that Stans wouldn't fill. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52048661774_d18daa5ae8.jpg It's a Bontrager Hodag 26x3.8 that came with the bike when I bought it (back in 2014). It's stood in the shed unused since May, but now it's time to get a ...

Verena wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 6:59 pm
In other news, cached in a late Christmas/ 50th birthday present (o the joys) and attended my very first routine mammagram screening session.

Now I know how a panini feels

I hope you haven't got the burnt stripes

Neil removed shoes, socks, lifted leggings, and threw said shoe over the watercourse (it worked once over a stream in summer). With too much effort applied, catching my fingers on exit, my first shoe went vertical, thence nose diving to sit like a boat on the fast flowing water. :lol: Can I just as...

Hmm that first pic ploughing through the bog shows up my sartorial elegance a little too closely for my liking :smile: . Washing up gloves, sandals, inside out fleece leggings with no shorts or knickers etc. Then again I suppose that's exactly what all the best-dressed bikepackers are wearing these...

Not listening, but watching.

https://youtu.be/z9RZ5ul4SOs

I was there. Some parts gave me moist eyes, especially the kids playing. It was a good time to be a kid - we didn’t know we were poor.

Here we go again...

At the WE 2023. Brigands Inn, Mallwyd.




That's 1/12 for 2023.

Reg has given a comprehensive account of our trip, so there's not much more I can add except a few photos, so here's my contribution... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52618180470_5e1c2e0066.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52618181075_092883dfe2.jpg I think it was at this point that Pete...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 7:07 pm Before you all go and get drunk,

Too late!. A few? bottles of Leffe and a couple of bottles of whatever and a general portion of G&T...Happy New Year I've lost the power of speech.. bblfroofther...