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by thenorthwind
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:06 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
Replies: 4
Views: 75

Supertramp 2024: A Challenge

BAM seems to be a great motivator for getting people out the door, and often people do it as part of a bigger trip, but I've been thinking recently how much more rewarding it is to get out for at least two nights in a row. Waking up outside (or, more often, coming round from the final nap of the nig...
by thenorthwind
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:56 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
Replies: 6
Views: 178

Re: Matthew Fairbrother

PS for those that haven't come across him before, he has previous for this sort of deviant behaviour... A couple of years ago (?) he raced the Enduro World Series as a privateer, bikepacking between races out of necessity. It got quite a lot of coverage, and he seems to have got quite a few sponsors...
by thenorthwind
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
Replies: 6
Views: 178

Re: Matthew Fairbrother

That seems a jolly sporting thing to do - fair play. Who carried his bike on the kayak crossing though? :lol: Nobody - he strapped it onto the deck of his sea kayak... That was his plan, but because of the bad weather someone took it for him. What a cheat! :wink: How must the other riders be feelin...
by thenorthwind
Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:20 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18430

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Congratulations Reg :-bd Sounds like the celebration distilled all the elements of your inimitable style down into one trip :grin: the middle of Stoke… I believe from The Influencers that that's what we're all aiming for, so congrats on that :wink: This influencer? "Tunstall TikTok influencer ...
by thenorthwind
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:02 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
Replies: 6
Views: 178

Matthew Fairbrother

I thought this feat was deserving of attention on here: https://m.pinkbike.com/news/photo-story ... orted.html
by thenorthwind
Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:48 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18430

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Congratulations Reg :-bd
Sounds like the celebration distilled all the elements of your inimitable style down into one trip :grin:
RIP wrote: Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:41 pm the middle of Stoke…
I believe from The Influencers that that's what we're all aiming for, so congrats on that :wink:
by thenorthwind
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: The post man's been ...
Replies: 11406
Views: 1894213

Re: The post man's been ...

Bearlegged wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:46 am Image

Top marks for trying though.
I genuinely considered taking it out to the garage and doing just that, since it seems destined for the bin anyway.
by thenorthwind
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:54 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Winter Jennride video !
Replies: 5
Views: 211

Re: Winter Jennride video !

Christ, that's hung around for long enough :shock: Not sure about May, got quite a few other things in the calendar, inc. Tor Divide the weekend before. Also, possibly NYM300 (haven't ruled out an extended ride either - will probably look at starting from Thirsk if that's the case though. The logist...
by thenorthwind
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:21 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: The post man's been ...
Replies: 11406
Views: 1894213

Re: The post man's been ...

A new (to me) phone. Kind of relevant here becasue my old phone died in the torrential rain on the winter Jennride. I would have put it in a waterproof case, but I assumed the pocket in my new Evoc bum bag specifically for a phone would be waterproof. Apparently not. (I also had to get replacements ...
by thenorthwind
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:03 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you reading now?
Replies: 397
Views: 40156

Re: What are you reading now?

Re-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at the mo just because I'm struggling with what I think a bike should be vs the mainstream industry take on bikes so maybe it'll produce some inspiration in how to handle the way bikes are going a similar way to cars in closing off the basic mech...
by thenorthwind
Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:53 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Winter Jennride video !
Replies: 5
Views: 211

Re: Winter Jennride video !

boxelder wrote: Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:16 am not even spoiled by me and Dave appearing a couple of times
:lol: we were even riding our bikes at one point
Yeah, nice work. Helped me explain to my mum what I was doing :lol:
by thenorthwind
Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:33 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: They have finally arrived
Replies: 8
Views: 351

Re: They have finally arrived

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/jim-carey-the-grinch-1665564473.jpg Despite the choice of "rave" or "sexual deviant", I'm genuinely pleased to see they're making Outdry stuff again because I thought they'd binned it. I really want some of the trousers, but £180 is a ...
by thenorthwind
Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Replies: 101
Views: 2677

Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn

I'm afraid the plants and animals will have to go How do you see that working out for your children and grandchildren? This has been taken out of context. If you read the whole paragraph it should be clear that I'm referring to the plants and animals that will be displaced by the wind farms not eve...
by thenorthwind
Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:05 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you reading now?
Replies: 397
Views: 40156

Re: What are you reading now?

Stewart quotes from 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby in that book, which I highly recommend - not just an insight in Afghanistan but also the world in the 1950's. Another classic of travel writing. I have it somewhere - another one I've read, know I enjoyed, but couldn't tell you a si...
by thenorthwind
Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:02 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you reading now?
Replies: 397
Views: 40156

Re: What are you reading now?

Just started two books I picked up from the library: Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the dark . Thanks for the recommendation faustus. I'm only one chapter in, but already hooked. The Curtain and The Wall: A modern journey along Europe's cold war border by Timothy Phillips, which I found by coincidence on ...
by thenorthwind
Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:37 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Replies: 101
Views: 2677

Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn

Itchynuts wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:21 pm I'm afraid the plants and animals will have to go
How do you see that working out for your children and grandchildren?
by thenorthwind
Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:59 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Recommend me a decent stills camera
Replies: 18
Views: 698

Re: Recommend me a decent stills camera

I need to think how i'm going to process pictures, so any insight into how others use their camera photos would also be useful. I only have a work laptop now, which I can't plug anything into and I don't own, and it has many admin restrictions in place. I don't enjoy 'processing' photos very much a...
by thenorthwind
Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:54 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Replies: 101
Views: 2677

Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn

RIP wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:26 pm It amuses me that people frequently denigrate 'environmental' initiatives. What? You don't want better air and water quality? More pleasant living spaces? Streets where kids can play like we used to? etc etc.
Brings to mind:
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by thenorthwind
Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:42 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Replies: 101
Views: 2677

Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn

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by thenorthwind
Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:49 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Replies: 101
Views: 2677

Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn

I love how this thread is full of reasoned argument and polite disagreement between people with wildly different views... Except one person who compared it to the other place and flounced out :lol: oh the irony
by thenorthwind
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:59 pm
Forum: MYOG
Topic: Massive top tube bag
Replies: 6
Views: 303

Re: Massive top tube bag

Looks great! :-bd

I've not got a rotary cutter, but may well try one - the cutting out bit takes a lot more time than you think.
by thenorthwind
Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:49 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
Replies: 388
Views: 18430

Re: Bivvy a Month 2024

Reported previously, but raided the SD card from my now defunct phone for this photo from last weekend's pre-Jennride bivvy:

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by thenorthwind
Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:08 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Recommend me a decent stills camera
Replies: 18
Views: 698

Re: Recommend me a decent stills camera

Re. old lenses, I liked the idea that I could use some of my old Pentax lenses on an inexpensive M4/3 adapter, since my previous camera was a Pentax dSLR - in fact the main reason I bought into the Pentax system. But in reality, I rarely use them. The light weight and bulk of the modern M4/3 lenses ...
by thenorthwind
Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:06 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Recommend me a decent stills camera
Replies: 18
Views: 698

Re: Recommend me a decent stills camera

Just to provide one experience... I've got an Olympus M4/3 mirrorless (E-M10 MK3) which I've been very happy with - probably 4 or 5 years old now. It, or a similar, newer model probably meets most of your spec: Useable manual focus Depends on the lens focus ring to an extent, but the focus peaking i...