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- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Stress Art
- Replies: 3
- Views: 136
Re: Stress Art
Always good to keep these artifacts as a reminder! I think I've posted this on here before, but this https://i.ibb.co/vYkysMT/20221231-092957.jpg Is the sump plug out of my old Volvo 240. I stupidly tried to wind it out clockwise doing an oil change due to being in a hurry, and upside down, and inst...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:22 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 106
- Views: 1834
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
Glad there was a happy resolution to this, well done. Definitely character-building this stuff. I've been in that pit of despair where you've dug yourself a hole (not that I'm suggesting you did anything wrong to start with) that's going to sap time/money/energy getting out of, if you even can. In m...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 482937
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
the problem with having multiple bikes True. About 6 miles for me, including the 4 home from the station, though some of it I was able to coast. I was chatting to the guy cleaning the platform while waiting for my train home (my bike attracted quite a lot of attention, not for the mangled derailleu...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:30 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 482937
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Well, I'd gone about 12 miles when my mech hanger spontaneously snapped, threw the mech into my spokes and exploded. Fortunately I carry all the tools I need to shorten a chain, cable ties to fix stuff out of the way, and even an emergency mech hanger, in my tool bag. Unfortunately, today was also t...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:38 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3943
- Views: 482937
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Forecast is for a sunny day but a strong westerly: a north east classic. So bagged a ticket on the 7.40 to Hexham, upwind for a couple of hours easy ride home, for the princely sum of £3.70 A couple of days late, but since the day in question was miserable, today feels like a good day to celebrate t...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Crashing....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 254
Re: Crashing....
Sucks, doesn't it. It's always the stupid, innocuous-seeming situations too. Damaging kit is annoying too, but at least it can be replaced. Shame it doesn't grow back like skin though!
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 106
- Views: 1834
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
Shaff - get a dremel (cheapo ebay copy in any case) and try to grind out as much of the bolt as you can before have a go with a tap. In fact if you are careful and very patient, you might be able to get enough out to pick the threads of the bolt out without tapping - even if you can get the first b...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 406
Re: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
Funnily enough Dave, I was thinking earlier that I tend to only sleep out for three maybe four nights at a time on a trip You're already doing better than me then! Good idea :-bd So to clarify, can we use paid for accommodation during the trip? Rules as per BAM, except any accommodation is acceptab...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 406
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...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
- Replies: 6
- Views: 292
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...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
- Replies: 6
- Views: 292
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...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
- Views: 19399
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 ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
- Replies: 6
- Views: 292
Matthew Fairbrother
I thought this feat was deserving of attention on here: https://m.pinkbike.com/news/photo-story ... orted.html
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 405
- Views: 19399
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:55 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11421
- Views: 1906138
Re: The post man's been ...
I genuinely considered taking it out to the garage and doing just that, since it seems destined for the bin anyway.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Winter Jennride video !
- Replies: 5
- Views: 231
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...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11421
- Views: 1906138
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 ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 398
- Views: 42307
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...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 8:53 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Winter Jennride video !
- Replies: 5
- Views: 231
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: They have finally arrived
- Replies: 8
- Views: 358
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 ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:44 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2732
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...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 398
- Views: 42307
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...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 398
- Views: 42307
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 ...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2732
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 1:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend me a decent stills camera
- Replies: 18
- Views: 704
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...