Sarah wrote:Oh and will probably have cake or brownies.

Ok I'm in

I err .....:may have Malt

It will make a change to ride in a group

cheers chew, bikehike looks much easier to use. do you know how i load the grid refs, ive plotted them in basecamp andsaved them as a gpx file on my desktop

Basecamp is making me very sweary, any one got any tips apart from get a paper map. I've used ridewithgps to plot routes for other rides but it's got no way of importing the waypoints. Help!

~X( ~X( A full 48 hours and no one's posted to say - "I've worked my route out, it takes in all the GR, is 170km long and contains 4322m of ascent". Standards appear to be slipping :wink: I also think we may have also managed to avoid any GR in the Irish sea this year :-bd I do have some d...

3/3 little trip up to a local airfield, most of the trails were in better condition but the climb up an old trail was like riding through a shallow river. After a few beers with my old skydiving pals I made my way back to an abandoned farm for the night. A cold but beautifully clear night warmed by ...

WRT points as a GPX file if thay are any help
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sgef75hdturch ... S.gpx?dl=0

now i just need to figure out how to use basecamp

One bottle in feed bag, one in cage and a 1.5ltr pop bottle in bbb extra large cage below down tube for camp filled up at last possible moment.

Anyone got a spare schnozzel pump they want to move on?

Oh they also now do the Big Fat Dummy it takes fat bike wheels or you can build it with 29+ wheels

I want one but I don't know why

http://surlybikes.com/bikes/big_fat_dummy

Off road big dummy action here http://www.ridingthespine.com/.

Unsurprisingly I had one for a few years, rode it every where including john O'groats to lands end. Fantastic bikes, the handling makes the length disappear. Off road they work very well, very comfy due to the length wise flex. The only thing is the length makes it next to impossible to loft the fro...

Just checked at 4am ( up for work) mikes instagram page says he has an 18k lead!!

Specialised burra burra, Arkel seat packerand porcelain rocket Albert + another PR one all have clamps/ racks

So how many have entered?

Aye it's been great this weekend,still chilly overnight though, 2deg last night. Nothing that a little down and malt can't handle After work rides will be back on the cards as well.

Just got around to washing the bike afterwards last nights BAM trip, on the ride I picked up about four hawthorns which I pulled out due to the twigs clattering about. Once the tires were clean I pulled 5 from the back and 3 from the front. All of which the stans sealed. There must have been others ...

http://i.imgur.com/tIphwnF.jpg Taste test soon. Question is; try them at home, or risk doing it while camping and finding they're rubbish? I guess the only fair method is to do it for real.... I took a punt on a couple of these, at worst they will make a change from the usual noodles or mounting ho...

One, according to the Mrs

Sawyer mini water filter unused £15 posted

I can't work out what's happening there k

That is a thing of beauty, if it's half the price of a jones even better.

Twatish name maybe but I spend all day fixing lifting gear and he rides bikes in nice places. I'm so think he might have one up on me.

Some Topeak stuff is great, I've had a joeblow pump for years. But this seems to be reinventing the bandwagon.

On one particularly difficult setup I had reduced myself to a sweaty heap pumping away (stop sniggering at the back) In desperation i gaffer taped the tyre to the rim, worked a treat. I removed the tape after setup...

Slight thread hijack but I might help the op, I too have been looking at carbon forks, the exotic and the MRP rock solid look likely candidates. My ecr fork is 47mm offset and 468mm axel to crown, Both the carbon forks are available in 44mm and 465 but the mrp also comes in 490mm. Obviously the 490 ...