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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 410
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
BaM for March '24 - Done :-bd Continuing my flower-themed BaMs. I've bivvied in violets, in primroses, in wild garlic (phew!),in bluebells and now in Daffodils. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczO2B0MXB7V4EfRuBIVhlEJ_kNrSWmPI0YZCyR6zPxOPptx0G5Qq33OKVFRXgIFIy8Gvwi3ZyIS3AYy-qt5NxakWjTnUIvY4Pm...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3950
- Views: 484543
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Only not off topic because it’s Cheery Friday, but… I like words. I learnt a new one yesterday - Christofaschist. A lovely word. A lot of ‘em in USA apparently… Also, a disappointing truth. I’ll explain… Who’s heard of the song “Alouette, (gentille Alouette)”? I’d always thought it was about a boy s...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 9:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 106
- Views: 1864
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
It’s a prime example of “the innate hostility of inanimate objects”. In your case, it’s just sitting there, saying “Nah, I don’t wanna. Now what are you go in’ to do?”.
Aaagh! I feel your pain
Aaagh! I feel your pain
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 410
- Views: 19576
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
You’re a man after my own heart. A bit of good food is worth carrying the extra weight for a few milesdorsetshirelad wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 1:25 pm
…before breakfast of bacon, egg, sausage, mushrooms and tomatoes all washed down with cowboy coffee….
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sunday conundrum.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 313
Re: Sunday conundrum.
‘S one of life’s great mysteries - like the ways of a man with a maid or how does a horse do that while he’s walking…
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3950
- Views: 484543
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
….. my first batch of sauerkraut has seen the light of day. Congratulations. Enjoy. :-bd Making sauerkraut is very satisfying. Mine is made in a 10 litre plastic bucket, then bagged up in manageable quantities (for two), then frozen. Kefir is fun to make too. I made lots last summer but Mrs Frog ch...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 410
- Views: 19576
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Berwyn tour with Reg - Supplemental. Reg very kindly skirted around my little mix-up re start date. Mea Culpa. There, I’ve said it - but anyway, moving swiftly on…. Here are my few pics:- The night before…. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV87BDJjyzyDEj-2Q1Vx8scVs6OnaxjYs2C-kH1ONltlbI6VHNu8o...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3950
- Views: 484543
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I’ve got some old doors you can build a shed out of.Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:26 am Cheery Friday here as we take ownership of our new allotment today. I'm off to buy a pipe and some tobacco and a hoe later.
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 289
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 9:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 289
Re: What to do about this tubeless sealant
You'd say the sidewalls are porous Lu and the sealant is simply doing its job. Is the tyre still going down? Yup. Well I say Yup but I haven’t ridden it since the WE. It’s soft now but I wouldn’t like to say how quickly it went down. I had noticed in the past that it would “sweat” clear stuff but n...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What to do about this tubeless sealant
- Replies: 7
- Views: 289
What to do about this tubeless sealant
Before the latest Winter Event I thought to make sure my tyres wouldn’t go down and topped up (with more Stans) the Stans sealant that had been in for a year or so. Next morning:- https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ABLVV85SaH3sCFU18GxDdOhWegdn71RhvyDXYbUtSyiURzYXIHRqxzoKwZFaVpEHDfbD6VdPSFZ7PyJuqLv...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 8:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sleeping Socks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 338
Re: Sleeping Socks
My answer to cold feet is a hot water bottle (actually, a small platypus bottle) and dry socks. Half fill with cold water (not the socks :grin: )then top up with hot. I find I can’t get to sleep with cold feet, but once they’re warm, they stay warm. As an extra bonus, the water still has some heat i...
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 1:53 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3950
- Views: 484543
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 9:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
- Replies: 13
- Views: 637
Re: Near death experience - > what road/gravel gearing
I had a tank slapper on a 1939 Royal Enfield Flying Flea. It wasn’t terrifying, because it was on a grassy field and I doubt the speed was over 25mph.yourguitarhero wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2024 6:26 pm I once had a tankslapper on a GSXR600 at full throttle. Absolutely terrifying!
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:14 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 410
- Views: 19576
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I’m in again.
1/12 on the WE with RIP, MuddyPete and Raggedstone. Reg has brilliantly covered the trip in the WE thread and I have no more to add.
1/12 on the WE with RIP, MuddyPete and Raggedstone. Reg has brilliantly covered the trip in the WE thread and I have no more to add.
- Thu Jan 11, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2336
Re: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
Well, what a weekend it was! It was great to ride with (follow - I had nothing to do with routing, I just tailed along) RIP, Muddypete And Raggedstone. And we got to see THE waterwheel in the mine. Impressive! Apart from the riding and good companions, my WE was notable for forgetting my riding jack...
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
- Replies: 52
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Re: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
It's almost to late to post WE coz that’ll be done in a few days.
WRT.
And an OT tick-off of the bucket list….. the Great Glen Canoe Trail. This with my daughter, two sons and at least one grandson.
WRT.
And an OT tick-off of the bucket list….. the Great Glen Canoe Trail. This with my daughter, two sons and at least one grandson.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 8:03 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Ideas for old self inflating sleeping mat?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1432
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3950
- Views: 484543
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Thanks. So do I. I'll take him to the vets tomorrow and get him checked out.
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 9:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3950
- Views: 484543
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
It’s been a pretty miserable Friday up until 7 o’clock when our big cat came home after being AWOL for three days. The day he went missing, I came down in the morning and found the utility room that the cats are shut into at night literally covered in cat poo. It was spread about the floor, on a pil...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3950
- Views: 484543
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:23 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3950
- Views: 484543
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Tomorrow will be a lot cheerier than it might have been. Emergency op to fix a torn retina yesterday, after a previous attempt with lasers two weeks ago. This time they used cryotherapy - freezing with liquid nitrogen. Scary stuff. Only a local anaesthetic. I don't think they actually pop your eyeb...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:19 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 714
Re: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
Thanks for a beautiful video. I don’t know how you do it - have you a Time Machine ? It must take hours to set up the shots - I’m thinking, stop, set up the camera, ride back the trail a bit, turn around and ride past the camera, then stop and retrieve the camera. Not to mention the drone video. And...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183868
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
A brilliant effort there, Reg & MP, though I wonder how you reconciled all the extra weight given what a weight weenie you are. You have eclipsed my steak'n'chips from my WRT this year by a long shot. :-bd ….And yes obviously one has to have a f*** (now then now then) at Crimbo, but equally obvi...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: My winter event - Freedom Ride for Dr Aafia Siddiqui
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5816
Re: My winter event - Freedom Ride for Dr Aafia Siddiqui
Oh Lordy! What an introduction to bikepacking for poor Nasir. He’ll probably never speak to you again, poor thing…