Another Brand X + Top Peak thingy user here. Advantage of Brand X is that swapping to a standard post is dead easy - release the cable and go. Hydraulic posts are a bit more involved. the Brand X get rebranded as all sorts - I have a Bontrager branded version from years ago.

I've some SIDs going spare - SID RL, 120mm travel, 51mm offset, solo air, Motion Control, bar mounted lock out, 110x15mm maxle. Black and 1740g on my scales with remote and cable. Stickers are a bit tatty and the thread has gone on the hose clamp (could be re-tapped or use a self tapper, or a cable ...

I took Rebank jnr (or one of them) for Bikeability last year. I think Mrs R has taken to writing too. I'm reading The Flow by Amy-Jane Beer https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/flow-9781472977397/ Easy to read, dip in and out of, and of interest to anyone who stops on bridges to watch rivers/becks/burns.

Did you win?

Wife, who's a Deputy Head, had to delay for 2 days as Ofsted decided the best day for them to turn up was the day we left Holiday in term time? :o Looks great. Enjoy. Very happy with my recent Rega Planar 3 50th Anniversary I've got a Rega Planar sat in a cupboard upstairs - redundant since 2016......

To chip in to the 'legality bit', there is, I believe, a bylaw specifically banning cycling on footpaths within open access land in the Peak District. I seem to remember it being a response, years ago, to cyclists using Fps along the gritstone edges, which was damaging SSSIs and the like. This is fr...

....a new pair of wheels - DT swiss 1900 (370 hubs and 500g, 30mm wide rims). Arrived already taped with tubeless valves, and only £200.

Not light or especially bling, but going on Solaris trail bumbler - I'll go with strong and cheap (and reliable hopefully)

Test ride tomorrow

Weather's looking a little worse this weekend

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-67111475

Last check-in was 2019 - have they brewed it again? Yeah - I'd spotted it on their FB page recently. Wasn't aware that they'd brewed it before. Just back from the cinema at Rheged, having seen the 'Reel Rock' climbing films. There was one about the climbing community in Palestine (West Bank). Reall...

Ooh, whatcha got? I'm just about to investigate the fridge too. See you over in the drinking thread

Kirkby Lonsdale brewery are now doing a beetroot stout - good excuse for a longer pedal on that commuter bike
https://untappd.com/b/kirkby-lonsdale-b ... le/2926642

Just seen these 170mm SLX chainset with a 30t chainring on CRC for 49.99. Bargain with the chainring included too. https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/p/shimano-slx-m7100-1x12-speed-chainset?color=black&chainringTeeth=30T&crankLengths=30T+170mm DT Swiss wheels too at better than half price.

rocky technical poor show

"Fair janky" is the best description of the 'Ledmore plod' I've ever heard/seen

HT_Short (TM)

Ooh, is it like a highlights package, skipping the janky bits?

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 10:33 pm Good that. Will catch part 2 tomorrow.
I wonder when they did it - looked rather damp.... Plus they were using the 2017 route by the looks - it does worry me how I can recognise every bit of that trail!

Next year Phil?

Boab wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2023 11:13 pm Oh no! Oh no!

That a quote from Katy's River crossings commentary? She's entertaining for sure. I liked the bit at the start of the Drumbeg roller coaster road when she says "thank god, nearly there", and he gives her that 'oh dear' look

Really good videos of a 'posh' tour from Katy Winton.
https://youtu.be/Tuz5s048M7Y?si=GpL9NbOR-RF9tVkp

https://main.talkytoaster.me.uk/ ??

Any use?

What wheel size are the Hope wheels (assuming 26 is rim width mm)

From recent Alps traverse. Seemed to catch the mood for that day pretty well.

"Buxton, while possessing a pleasantly low temperature in summer, rightly enjoys the reputation of being the coldest place in England during the winter." :grin: Yes, admittedly, descending from the Cat and Fiddle (I worked in Macc) into the frost hollow occupied by Buxton, was occasionall...

My Spearfish is DUB. SRAM original was pretty short lived, but replaced with Nukeproof and it lasted a couple of years. Just replaced, though only one side was gone really. Heavily reduced if you don't mind green: https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/p/nukeproof-horizon-bottom-bracket-sram-dub-bsa?co...

Vocation Crush Hour , refreshing from the fridge after a 'day off' pedal around Coniston/Langdale, while I make pizza for the girls tea. I've some Salt Huck a Back and some Northern Monk Heathen Club too. Tasting better for a week of no beer. I hope you're drinking it on Axe Edge for the full exper...

Looks like you've put a lot of work in - good luck with getting it going. Date's not good for me unfortunately. I need an excuse to return to the Peak (Sheffield student and lived in Buxton for a few years).

In. Global warming - it'll be spring by then, right?

17-18 Feb, 100 miles, common Sat night campfield, entries open Friday 29th 9am (tomorrow)
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la ... ShzxwjW9XI

Flights to Geneva and from Nice. Train to Montreux is regular from the airport. Mate booked huts, hostels, hotels and we ate in/near them. Packed lunches from hostels etc, as didn't pass open shops/cafes as often as we hoped. Not exactly cheap for 'bikepacking'. I reckon I could have ridden it in 8 ...