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- Wed May 15, 2024 7:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New bike, thoughts!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 289
Re: New bike, thoughts!
If he's not planning on racing, surely a gravel bike opens up far more terrain than a road bike, even if it's just disused railways and canals... likely got lower gearing, be more relaxed, probably more comfortable
- Wed May 15, 2024 7:14 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14626
Re: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
1st Jan 15st 10.5lb /220 lb / 100kg 6th March 15st 4.5lb / 214.5lb / 97.29kg 12th April 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 96.84kg 17th April 15st 2.5lb / 212.5 / 96.5kg 1st May 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 96.84kg 15th May 15st 2.5lb / 212.5 / 96.5kg 2nd swim last weds was 1300m up from 800 the week before. That inc...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT 24 thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 406
Re: WRT 24 thanks
We saw virtually no-one but then we headed in the opposite direction to the GR's, out the back of Stu's and up and over to Nant yr Arian, then Nant Syddion Bothy, and back through Hafren on Sunday. We all had commitments on Monday so a Lite was required this year.
- Wed May 08, 2024 7:50 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT 24 thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 406
Re: WRT 24 thanks
Massive thanks to all involved but especially Dee & Stu. Best event of the year for sure.
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14626
Re: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
1st Jan 15st 10.5lb /220 lb / 100kg 6th March 15st 4.5lb / 214.5lb / 97.29kg 12th April 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 96.84kg 17th April 15st 2.5lb / 212.5 / 96.5kg 1st May 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 96.84kg Snuck up again.. vagaries of body weight. Been watching "Always Another Adventure" on youtube...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: If you could recommend 1 gravel route - what would it be?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2320
Re: If you could recommend 1 gravel route - what would it be?
I'm doing a variation on the Woods Rat Run which I believe is gravel and looks SUPERB !! https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45384349
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:34 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: If you could recommend 1 gravel route - what would it be?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2320
Re: If you could recommend 1 gravel route - what would it be?
I've done the Wayfarers on the CDF and it's a tough ride. I did it west to east..
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:32 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: If you could recommend 1 gravel route - what would it be?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2320
Re: If you could recommend 1 gravel route - what would it be?
Shropshire borders, Epic Cycle of Ludlow have the Cross Cartel with some great gravel routes and one BEAST of 600km https://thecrosscartel.com/
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:35 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Weather report
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2110
Re: Weather report
It's a bit blimmin' nippy, though. 3°C at the end of April! :shock: . Be grateful though cos as say was -4 in '18 or '19. Ice on tarp job.... Must have been '19 '18 was fine ... too flippin hot in the day time ... I remember struggling up from Aberhosen to the Wynford Vaughn Thomas viewpoint trying...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:22 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fork Mounted Bottles...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2158
Re: Fork Mounted Bottles...
https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/bike-bott ... R-p-119989
they may still do a strap version too... worked well on my boys bike
they may still do a strap version too... worked well on my boys bike
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14626
Re: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
1st Jan 15st 10.5lb /220 lb / 100kg
6th March 15st 4.5lb / 214.5lb / 97.29kg
12th April 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 96.84kg
17th April 15st 2.5lb / 212.5 / 96.5kg
Every little helps...
6th March 15st 4.5lb / 214.5lb / 97.29kg
12th April 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 96.84kg
17th April 15st 2.5lb / 212.5 / 96.5kg
Every little helps...
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: It burns !!! It burns!!!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1705
It burns !!! It burns!!!
There's a yellow thing in the sky I don't recognise ..... we're doomed!!!
- Fri Apr 12, 2024 7:31 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14626
Re: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
1st Jan 15st 10.5lb /220 lb / 100kg 10th Jan 15st 5lb /215lb / 97.72kg 17th Jan 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 97kg 28th Feb 15st 6lb / 216lb / 98.2kg 6th March 15st 4.5lb / 214.5lb / 97.29kg 12 April 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 96.84kg I was here in January ... glad to be back here again. With WRT looming large...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 49414
Re: What are you reading now?
Just finished Lionel Shiver's - Big Brother.
No not yet more Orwellian stuff.
It's about having an obese brother, ( I have a morbidly obese son ) I hoped for hope and got none. He'll be obese until it kills him. I doubt he'll see 50.
Just gotta love him while he's here.
No not yet more Orwellian stuff.
It's about having an obese brother, ( I have a morbidly obese son ) I hoped for hope and got none. He'll be obese until it kills him. I doubt he'll see 50.
Just gotta love him while he's here.
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14626
Re: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
Just read Big Brother - Lionel Shriver about an obese big brother. Having an obese son I hoped for hope and got none. He'll be big his whole short life. Love him while he's here. "As the brother, Edison, explains in the novel, “I used to look pretty good. Then I didn’t. That’s the point. Once I...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:18 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 64
- Views: 6351
Re: WRT GR's
I had a route going out to Aberystwyth ... then back through Hafren .... that's out the window Even in previous years I don't think I've ever plotted a route picking up more than one or two GRs. Whilst I'm generally a misanthrope and I'd be happy enough being alone on a trip, WRT is different, and ...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 64
- Views: 6351
Re: WRT GR's
So I'm assuming it's all primarily NE of BB towers this year ? Yes. E & NE Cheers. I've already plotted a route for myself, my son and a couple of mates and were heading due South through Hafren, only because the route is known to us, I'm confident my son could ride it, and it allows us some ca...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 1129
- Views: 207928
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 49414
Re: What are you reading now?
"The Sea is not made of water - Life Between the Tides" - Adam Nicolson. Very Robert Macfarlane, which I like.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 531647
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
As we've kinda just touched on analogue, I'm hoping for a cheery Friday as this is coming tomorrow. Apologies in advance as it's now a certainty that the next 4 weeks will be very wet. https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBV8IfVKgku1_x4Px0b-TxAmX62ahVS-HNon8MCTJ4Si4YSGZKDupiy...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 152878
Re: Wildlife
I had the pleasure of following a Barn Owl along a hedge line in the dusk a couple of nights ago ... 100m or so then it banked right, across the road and over a field ... beautiful bird
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
- Replies: 121
- Views: 14626
Re: Fat Fighters '24. The year for deflation!
1st Jan 15st 10.5lb /220 lb / 100kg
10th Jan 15st 5lb /215lb / 97.72kg
17th Jan 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 97kg
28th Feb 15st 6lb / 216lb / 98.2kg
6th March 15st 4.5lb / 214.5lb / 97.29kg
Heading in the right direction at least.
10th Jan 15st 5lb /215lb / 97.72kg
17th Jan 15st 3.5lb / 213.5lb / 97kg
28th Feb 15st 6lb / 216lb / 98.2kg
6th March 15st 4.5lb / 214.5lb / 97.29kg
Heading in the right direction at least.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 49414
Re: What are you reading now?
"Coming Up For Air" - Orwell.
Loving it.
Loving it.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:36 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 4211
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
we need electricity for almost everything we do. except cycling.... unless ... oh. Yes it will be awful and yes some flowers and animals will become extinct but if the alternative is for my children and grand children to become extinct then I'm afraid the plants and animals will have to go. I'm sor...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 49414
Re: What are you reading now?
The Pearl - Steinbeck.
Excellent short story in typical Steinbeck prose.
Excellent short story in typical Steinbeck prose.