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?

True, but there are lots of places I can take short cuts if I've over egged it. I've got a long day one and then til 8pm on the 2nd day, so hopefully I can grind round. I've been training pretty hard for a few months in anticipation of a go at the south downs way double in June and don't get many op...

I'm dessert-fluid, so pudding is very much an acceptable alternative to tart. Thanks for helping me avoid a potentially embarrassing faux pas.

This is brilliant! Thanks folks - I'll have a play around on komoot. Much appreciated.

Bugger... To precis SW out of Sheffield to Bakewell (for the tarts) W towards Buxton, but head N after Taddington N past Chapel and up to Glossop E along southern edge of reservoirs, then N towards Holmbridge, Meltham, Slaithwaite, Sowerby Bridge, Oxenhope, Sutton-in-Craven, Skipton Then Gargrave, W...

Sorry! Hopefully fixed now.

Apologies if this is better suited to the Routes section (it obviously is), but I thought it might see more traffic here. Stu, please feel free to shift it as required. I'm meeting a friend for a few days in the lakes at the start of May and have the opportunity to tag on a couple of extra days on t...

My daughter was very taken by the story of gelert the faithful hound when we visited Beddgelert. Cue ten years (and counting) of explaining to strangers why our lurcher has such a daft name...

I cut a section of old tube, then rerolll the new tube into a sausage shape and slip it inside the section of old tube. Protects it really well and I then just strap that to the bike. Probably makes more sense in the flesh than in text

I've got some brand new genetic digest bars that are in the narrower of the two available widths, I think. They're still very wide on the drops.

I'm giving it a go. Managed it once before on the road and that was fairly grim. This time I'm working over Christmas and we've got a wattbike at the station so it's a bit of a no brainer.