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- Sat Jul 20, 2024 6:13 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Better Slate Than Never 2
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1396
- Sat Jul 20, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fatbike 1x11 drive train
- Replies: 8
- Views: 309
Re: Fatbike 1x11 drive train
I missed the 2x9 bit. :oops: You might need to swap out the chainset to get a better chainline. That needs some digging around to find the offsets (from the centre line of the bike) of the current chainrings and what the ideal offset for a 1x should be. I'm used to Shimano with HT2 bottom bracket an...
- Sat Jul 20, 2024 12:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fatbike 1x11 drive train
- Replies: 8
- Views: 309
Re: Fatbike 1x11 drive train
Any derailleur and cassette will do (the splines need to be compatible). You’ll need a new shifter as well plus might as well get new cable and outer. Unless the chainring is shot you shouldn’t need one of those.
- Fri Jul 19, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Pain and suffering
- Replies: 22
- Views: 588
Re: Pain and suffering
The other week Cath and I descended a bridleway near Addingham that I’d only ever run up many years ago. It was basically a bridleway version of those sunken cart tracks. The sides were about a metre apart but there was 30cm of nettles and brambles covering each side :o You could only just push the ...
- Thu Jul 18, 2024 12:48 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Pain and suffering
- Replies: 22
- Views: 588
Re: Pain and suffering
Reminds me of the first time I went orienteering. I wore shorts
My legs looked like I’d been flogged
Didn’t make that mistake again
My legs looked like I’d been flogged
Didn’t make that mistake again
- Thu Jul 18, 2024 12:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Could I have explained myself better (on a cyclist hate thread)?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 646
Re: Could I have explained myself better (on a cyclist hate thread)?
Thinking a bit more about this. Maybe better to push against the hatred part rather than the cyclist bit.
As Phil notes, playing the logic card doesn’t really work as you are battling against a raw emotion.
As Phil notes, playing the logic card doesn’t really work as you are battling against a raw emotion.
- Thu Jul 18, 2024 10:39 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Could I have explained myself better (on a cyclist hate thread)?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 646
Re: Could I have explained myself better (on a cyclist hate thread)?
Sadly Shaf, some people are just full of hate. If it wasn’t cyclists being the target it would be the disabled or any group that is “different”. Unfortunately this attitude is then fed by the culture wars from certain sections of politicians and the media who use it to divide the country and distrac...
- Mon Jul 15, 2024 7:14 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 711
- Views: 167936
Re: Wildlife
Most likely a Jay - about the same size as a woodpecker (maybe a little bigger) - pink coloured with flashes of blue. You usually hear them though as they make a right racket.
- Sun Jul 14, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Isla bikes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 569
Re: Isla bikes
I think that was GCN+. The core GCN plus racing has continued.voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2024 7:01 pmI naively assumed GCN died when the subscription to the channel disappeared last December
- Sun Jul 14, 2024 1:44 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Isla bikes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 569
Isla bikes
Not a "tell me about them..." request. I thought there was a thread about them stopping making bikes but a search shows that it was part of "Wiggle going into receivership" so... GCN did a piece on Isla that came out yesterday (2024-07-13) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhnRE2g6...
- Fri Jul 12, 2024 6:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tubeless pump?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1000
- Fri Jul 12, 2024 12:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tubeless pump?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1000
Re: Tubeless pump?
The pump end of a tubeless valve is just standard. They usually have a removable core to allow for adding sealant and faster air flow for seating the tyre but apart from that nothing unusual
- Fri Jul 12, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tubeless pump?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1000
Re: Tubeless pump?
Welcome
Are you after a pump for use at home getting the tyres on or one for the trail to reinflate?
The Airshot style ones are fine for home but any pump will do when out on the trail
Are you after a pump for use at home getting the tyres on or one for the trail to reinflate?
The Airshot style ones are fine for home but any pump will do when out on the trail
- Fri Jul 12, 2024 8:01 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend a dry bag for saddlebag holster
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1089
Re: Recommend a dry bag for saddlebag holster
I can't remember if it was Dave Barter or John Climber but a few years ago someone did a test - they filled a Wildcat dry bag and an Alpkit dry bag with water and left them hanging up overnight*. In the morning the Wildcat bag was still full, the Alpkit wasn't. I've worn both out with use. But then ...
- Thu Jul 11, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 80 summers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 879
Re: 80 summers
I read that last bit as “carpet bowels”
- Thu Jul 11, 2024 7:19 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Better Slate Than Never 2
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1396
Re: Better Slate Than Never 2
The Croesor-Rhosydd through trip was one of those things I always wanted to do but never got round to. It came about because the owners of the two mines realised that their workings were very close and Croesor only had the one entrance so tunnelled the connection as an escape route, it's only a few ...
- Wed Jul 10, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 711
- Views: 167936
Re: Wildlife
We had a male Bullfinch in the garden earlier this evening. Not seen one of those here before. One of the more spectacular small birds. well it's a finch so it's gonna be small
- Mon Jul 08, 2024 7:01 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2257
Re: BB200 2024
I didn't find Strata Florida as bad as the moorland section before it. The moorland just had me wishing for a fat bike, I followed the gpx quite tightly which meant some interesting pushes, had a brief stop to sort myself out and put warm clothes on before the descent to SF but then it went dark on...
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2257
Re: BB200 2024
I think Stu has commented that 2014 was a shock as it was a radical departure from the previous three which had been basically the same route. I didn't find Strata Florida as bad as the moorland section before it. SF was just keep moving and don't bother about getting wet because you are as wet as y...
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Gravel Bike Tyres
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1341
Re: Gravel Bike Tyres
DON'T get the Panaracer Gravelking SK in green compound - they are lethal in the wet We've a pair in the back room - Cath wouldn't let me put them on the Genesis.
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: A small world
- Replies: 1
- Views: 408
A small world
With a bit of a dodgy forecast* I decided to go for a walk to pick up some VeloViewer squares above Gisburn Forest that are on the edge of my max square and ticking them off would bump that up a bit. Neither are legally accessible by bike but the first would have just been hike-a-bile there and back...
- Sun Jul 07, 2024 3:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2257
Re: BB200 2024
Anyone able to share some more info on Strata Florida pls. I didn't manage to get there last year (not complaining at all) as my last shakedown ride caused me to go into long terms cramps for a good while. Anywhere that we can read about how and why 'substandard it was'. Ta :smile: It was basically...
- Sat Jul 06, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2024
- Replies: 44
- Views: 2257
- Wed Jul 03, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy Monday!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 350
Re: Happy Monday!
Bloomin' heck!
If your head hadn't been in the way you'd have done some serious damage to that helmet
Get well soon
If your head hadn't been in the way you'd have done some serious damage to that helmet
Get well soon
- Mon Jul 01, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ultralightweight 2season sleeping bag?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 811
Re: Ultralightweight 2season sleeping bag?
You're quickly getting in to the "Light, cheap, quality - pick any two" terrain. For "ultra-cycling" events the question is really do you want just to recover and get a bit of rest or do you want a good night's sleep? For the former you want a system that lets you sleep but after...