Shewie wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:02 am A good soak with some Milton tablets will often remove mildew, worth a shot anyway

Thanks, as you say, well worth a try.

Thanks, just knowing it’s “clean mouldy stains” will be fine!

Thanks, I’m glad it’s a “thing “ , being so close to 1st of April I didn’t want my question to be thought of as a joke!

I have been given a 2nd hand tent, not a particularly expensive one but decent enough. There is a bit of a problem with it, that being it’s moderately manky inside where it was packed away damp, I was thinking maybe that Fabreeze spray that gets advertised a lot on TV but I was also thinking of stic...

After reading these great posts about this year’s BB200 it makes me want to come out of BB200 “retirement “, next year Mac?? Got to be done Rob. If you don't climb those hills, they wither and die. I think we could make up the Home Guard section for next year. The harder it sounded the more I thoug...

After reading these great posts about this year’s BB200 it makes me want to come out of BB200 “retirement “, next year Mac??

Your half may need to be a bit bigger than my half though Mac

Not a bad place to live!
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23657 ... -price-3m/

Jump Around by House of Pain.
Last time I tried this , I answered so wrongly it was amazing!

I am so glad they used a Mannequin and not a real Model!
"What`s the highlight of your Modelling career?"

"My best work was hanging from a strap pretending to $hit in the woods"

https://odditymall.com/crapstrap-hands- ... ping-strap

If the strap or tree snapped the out come would be messy!

Verena wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 8:26 pm
Anyway, while tidying up yesterday came upon bottle of spare vodka,

I am still a bit stumped by the description " Spare"

ChrisF wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:59 am In the interest of scientific enquiry I think you should tap out one of the cups and press it back in at room temperature and report back to us.

If I were to do that I would use a steel hammer next time so would not be a true comparison!

Just a quick update, In a very non scientific experiment, The old headset ( in the frame 8 years) took a lot of whacks, brute force and ignorance ( a quality I am blessed with) with the rubber mallet on the removal tool to get the upper and lower cups out. However.... the new headset from the freeze...

It does shrink if you freeze it, but not by much. Coeff thermal expansion for aluminium alloys approx 13 x 10^-6. Temp difference +15C to -12C gives total of 27C. Diameter of headset say 45mm... total contraction 0.015mm. So not enough to make much difference with the tolerances of manufacture of p...

Thanks for the replies, this is the first time using the freezer, I have previously not bothered and just pressed it in, but as it is a nice Hope headset I thought I would try it.

I will be fitting a new Headset into a steel frame and I have put the new Headset in the freezer, Is it an urban myth that it helps? From a Physics point of view it should but does it actually help in "Real life"? My home made press is ready and I have the knocking out the old headset tool...

godivatrailrider wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 10:23 am East of Eden - John Steinbeck … such a great writer.

A great writer, I love "The Grapes of Wrath"

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One of these little cuties will be accompanying me "dog packing" one day!
We have 8 of them, Labrador X Australian Kelpie so should have plenty of stamina.
2 Boys and 3 Girls still available if you like your bikepacking company to have 4 legs!

Roads! Where we`re going we don`t need roads!


Doc from Back to the future.

It would be nice if those paper *balloon things with a flame in them were no longer sold too!
A grassland fire ready to happen where ever the wind blows it.
* I dont know what they are called.

edit, I think they are called Sky lanterns?

Cheery here! Mainly as I still have a full compliment of fingers on my right hand,I was inspecting a piling shackle when the 1" diameter spring loaded pin decided to let go dragging my index finger into the sharp edged location hole. Much hilarity ensued with myself screaming for help and not ...

I read about his death ( and life) this morning, a very brave man with a noble cause,
Your memories of that " excitement" are no doubt still vivid!

I am very sorry if by posting this thread I have caused offence to anyone in any way.