I've often suffered with sore palms after long off road rides on the gravel bike. Current combo seems to have resolved it through - flared bars (not too sxtreme - cow chippers I think ), redshift stem, high bars (one of jameso's prototype frames with v long head tube) and liberal application of Lana...

That is mental! The winner of the national 24hr tt normally does something like 840k, and they've done 730 in less than 21hrs!

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/jul/15/spain-announces-free-rail-journeys-from-september-until-the-end-of-the-year?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook Not sure how practical this would be for bikepacking, but could make accessing the offf the beaten track bits more affordable. Great in...

Another+1 for the voile straps with the salsa cradle

I've had that problem and traced it to a bent hanger before. Having splashed out for the tool, it's a piece of piss to check every time you service a bike

Another +1 for the salsa here. Happy to pay a weight penalty for rock solid stability and never found the handling to be an issue

Thanks very much Daniel. As agreed, donation sent the way of the bear.

Just found and replied to your PM, so hopefully we can find one another somehow!

Great, thank you. My email is glandfield at hotmail dot com if that's easier? Let me know how much you want (fairly certain it'll need posting if that's ok with you) and I'll paypal gift it across.

Cheers!

Yes please, if not already gone

Hopefully I've used the right term there! It's basically a lead with two bare wires that you attach to the dynamo, then there's a connector so that you can split the lead to remove either the wheel or the charging unit without disconnecting from the dynamo. And despite some mixed reviews on the net,...

I've had an original igaro (d1?) and two igaro d2s, all admittedly bought second hand and all of which stopped working after relatively little use. I also had a c2c (bought new) that met the same fate after only a couple of trips, but quite a long spell in the parts bin. I had a lot of use out of a ...

Surplus to requirements. Brand new with tags still attached. The slightly narrower version of these flared gravel drops.

£30 posted or a bit less collected from the Brighton area.

All sorted now, thanks

Thanks Nobby, I'll let you know either way.

whitestone wrote: ↑Tue May 03, 2022 8:36 pm
Yes. It's a lot, lot easier than it used to be! The top section has been filled in with concrete, it used to be a rutted muddy mess but still at 25%

Happy to say I pushed my bike for the lot!

That'll be the 'opinion dividing' Warnscale trail :lol: It was the first ride I did on my first ever full sus bike. Needless to say, resulted in an over the bars and knackered 'V' brake. Always good to get the first battles scars in early :| Jesus, people actually ride down that?! It felt like an i...

Thanks Nobby, but I'm going to hold out for a drop bar set up. Going to have a look at a Boardman adv 8.8 this morning, which looks like a lot of bang for the buck.

I know the section from Dorking down to Brighton pretty well, but can't access the os maps. Can you share the Strava link please?

Thanks again for all the help with this, especially the scar house reservoir section. Is dead man's hill the stony track back up from the reservoir? If so, I was nowhere near doing it in a oner! The 3 days round the lakes was equally good - lots of iconic road passes (hardknott, wrynose, honister, n...

My 13yo autistic son is currently obsessing over bikes and bikepacking (obviously a wonderful thing, and very much to be encouraged), but bitter experience tells me that the pendulum wil inevitably swing and he'll move back onto airfix models, bass guitars, dinosaurs, Mongolian folk music (I kid you...

Thanks again

Lovely, thank you. Nikwak solar proofer seems good value and well reviewed?

Looking to plunder the riches of the boner hive mind once again.... I've been given an old terra nova tent (laser I believe, the old school, balloon bed era omm type) and am thinking I should probably reproof it before testing it in the field. What are people's current recommendations for reasonably...

boxelder wrote: ↑Fri Apr 01, 2022 11:23 am
Never over egg a tart

Indeed! Might have been guilty of that once or twice?