This all sounds great. :cool: food order placed. Think I might need a warmer sleeping bag! I did a dry January this year, (from Jan 4th as my wife had over catered for new year and I had to finish the cider....) and I'm still going. Probably best if I don't re-start on this ride, otherwise I'll be i...

Agreed, some very nice bikes shown. The bike in my first picture is a Muddy Fox Sorcerer. given to me by its original owner after it had sat unused for many years. It's tange prestige tubing and has some lovely touches like a paw print 'embossed' detail in the seat tube cluster and diamond detailing...

This one tends to get used for mixed on road and gentle off road riding And now has some compass tyres on it... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v637/westywagen/20150716_114230_zpsc2enss5j.jpg aithough it has been in proper off-road mode before (but still with moustache bars) http://img.photobucket...

Very very late to this party but one more (slow rider!) to the list please.

good point.. but a certain retro charm,, or perhaps that;s just my weird taste...

quick camera phone pic...

So I bought myself a new bike carrier this weekend.... The weekend that coincides with my step-daughter going off to York Uni. The two facts are not unrelated. My wife was driving her up there, and wanted to stay over, but she couldn't find a hotel to stay in for under £150 (prices up fro the start ...

Thanks Stuart and Dee for all the vaguely exciting efforts to make a fab weekend happen.
Lovely to meet some familiar faces and new ones too.

Becky had such a good time she's now talking about joining me on some bike-packing excursions

in

scared

need to get fit

Arriving early evening with my wife Becky, a late departure/ arrival for us, as she has a wotk event to go to first...


A very brief road ride is the plan - B on her lwb recumbent 'thing' and me on my genesis fortitude

Not at all lightweight is the plan:
A roomy tent and fat comfy sleep mats!

I'm an alt bar convert! I run nitto moustache bars on my road bikes (if a 1963 Moulton and late 80's muddy roadifed mtb count as road bikes). I've recently replaced the on one Mary's on the proper mtb with Jones loops. Interesting comment about the Ergon grips designed for back swept bars. I use erg...

Interesting question and answers. I've only ridden a Jones+ briefly a couple of times on borrowed bikes and I have to say it's one of the few bikes that just felt right straight away. From my brief tests I'd happily ride one a long way for a long time, and possibly have it as my only bike. My Genesi...

A pair of black Jones loop bars and some looong extra chunky esi grips for said bars..

My reward for spending 65 hours putting the fence up (I'd like to thank the house's previous occupant for leaving me 3ft cubes of concrete around the existing 2 inch square fence posts!!)

blackburn side roller. very happy with mine. they alow proper side entry not partial... as you can set the angle of sideways-ness....

Mine survived my WRT-ing ok.

Cheapest place I found is here...

http://www.woollyhatshop.com/blackburn- ... e-in-black

I'll see your 26" wheels and downtube shifters and raise you with 26" wheels and bar end shifters...



although now with Compass tyres (recently delivered to keep this vaguely on topic)

Zippy wrote:Don't forget the postcrete

Oh yes, 30 bags of postcrete arrived too!

20 fence panels, 21 posts, 20 gravel boards... and the hire man delivers the petrol powered hydraulic auger tomorrow.

Thats my long weekend sorted! Wish me luck...

With knackered knuckles on my left hand from an old sporting injury l struggled for years with achy and tingly fingers, which was bad enough to make me consider suspension, however I didnt succumb to the lure of the boing. Bigger volume tyres, run at lower pressures and ESI extra chunky grips have t...

That's great. Thanks very much indeed...

@BenS

Yes please! That'd be great.

Cheers
Nick

My are std not the extra lights and came from velo vitality in Brighton. (velovitality.co.uk)

Not that it probably helps much, but they give a slight discount if you visit the shop...

Thanks all.

@jameso: that's very useful.
@rufus748 does your mate ride through gloopy mud ok with no clogging problems?

Cheers,
Nick

Annoyingly my calipers are with a friend, so I'll get them back and do a proper measure later this week, but in the interim measuring my trusty g clamp (!) That was placed snugly around the tyre gives a measurement of: 50mm at the widest point of the tyre's width and 50 mm from outside edge of rim f...

They are. With pleasure. I'll give them a measure tonight...

thanks both. I'll check the measurement when home this evening. When funds allow I plan to build up a dyno hub'd front wheel probably with a Velocity blunt 35mm rim, and build the Alfine rear hub into a matching rim... mud clearance is in the back on my mind too... alternative forks are of course an...

I keep on meaning to. I receive compass' /JH email updates, which are always a good read, and I run a pair of 2.3 Compass tyres on my moustache bar'd roadified 80s MTB.