Search found 2310 matches
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3983
- Views: 503844
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Best wishes for the future V. Cheery stuff here: It's 9 years since Bear Cub no.1 first rode a pedal bike, and I've got my first guiding gig of the season this afternoon. Hoping that my battered and failing body* makes it through! I do have an ample supply of jelly beans, so should be fine. *Tennis ...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: If you could recommend 1 gravel route - what would it be?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 185
Re: If you could recommend 1 gravel route - what would it be?
Badger Divide is good. Down the Corrieyairack Pass heading N>S is a bit rocky, but I don't remember there being much HAB. Headwinds were what knackered me the most.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:18 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 896
- Views: 110615
Re: Today's Run
Well done, Team May!
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 696
- Views: 138271
Re: Wildlife
Went for a run along the canal, saw this juvenile Heron.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bike packing full suspension frame/ bike recommendations
- Replies: 17
- Views: 452
Re: Bike packing full suspension frame/ bike recommendations
Re: weight, I have a Cotic SolarisMAX and a Jeht and swap my forks/wheels/running gear between the two. The Jeht weighs more, but on average I end up riding (including climbing) faster on it. <shrug>
Shame the frame layout of the Jeht doesn't really lend itself to frame bags.
Shame the frame layout of the Jeht doesn't really lend itself to frame bags.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:30 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 503
- Views: 22753
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Just outside Basingstoke apparently, though it seems the station has been demolished.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliddesde ... ay_station
Google Maps shows "Adventure forest" just to the SE though, which sounds suitable for a Regspedition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliddesde ... ay_station
Google Maps shows "Adventure forest" just to the SE though, which sounds suitable for a Regspedition.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Gobowen->Berwyns: Wayfarer & Dirt Bike School 13-15 April 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 298
Re: Gobowen->Berwyns: Wayfarer & Dirt Bike School 13-15 April 2024
Aye, a very nice read that. The kind that makes me want to go there.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2235
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2235
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5viMkvMOsO/
I beleave that the more we define what ultra or bikepacking is, what the events or races are, or should be, the more we destroy it.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 11:15 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11450
- Views: 1931142
Re: The post man's been ...
a Sea to Summit Cinder Down Quilt from their sale. I'd tried the Alpkit quilt before and found it too cold (seems it is generally poorly reviewed) so hopefully this is one works better for when I don't want to take my sleeping bag. The bags and info leaflets it comes with are quite nice :) @yourgui...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 12:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Eid pressie prize! (Prize updated so gravel strokers don't feel intimidated against)
- Replies: 26
- Views: 494
Re: Eid pressie prize! (Prize updated so gravel strokers don't feel intimidated against)
Whilst I'm sure Christianity's 10 commandments could probably be condensed into Rule 1 (I'm pleading ignorance on other religions), the actual answer is shorter than the one suggested by Lazarus!
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3983
- Views: 503844
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
A very happy Eid al Fitr, particularly to Shaf, but also to everyone else who celebrates.
- Tue Apr 09, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1543
- Views: 257686
Re: What you done t' your bike today
Yeah, 3-4 months of being covered in road salt will do that. Not sure directing your ire at whatever lube you used is the most productive use of your energy.
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hap.... no, I'm saying nowt :)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 517
Re: Hap.... no, I'm saying nowt :)
Happy birthday Stu, hope you have a nice day.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:32 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 503
- Views: 22753
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Ouchy! Heal up well Jimmy!
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2235
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
fatbikephil wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 7:06 pm But to me it's the best way of stepping neatly away from the real world of jobs and grief.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2235
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
What Bob said. More folk on bikes having fun.
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 503
- Views: 22753
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Precious things, minds. Hope you can keep yours and your family's in the right place.*
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 896
- Views: 110615
Re: Today's Run
I briefly stepped out of the back door and was hit by such a wall of sunshine that I couldn't resist. All grey here again now, if it makes you feel any better.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 896
- Views: 110615
Re: Today's Run
First run of the year in shorts. Up the valley and back through the local woods, past a very unfussed urban fox, blossom on the trees, birds tweeting all around, and squirrels scampering across the path. Lovely.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4932
- Views: 1215907
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Barkley Marathons chitchat
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2913
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Barkley Marathons chitchat
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2913
Re: Barkley Marathons chitchat
I don't think I have ever been quite so invested in Twitter. Normal service can now resume.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Barkley Marathons chitchat
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2913
Re: Barkley Marathons chitchat
Whoop whoop!!!
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Barkley Marathons chitchat
- Replies: 50
- Views: 2913
Re: Barkley Marathons chitchat
I see Jasmin is going clockwise. Given this is the direction chosen by the leader, is she in for an easier* time?
*Less unimaginably horrible
*Less unimaginably horrible