If you did that in an area with a peat rich soil, how do you know the fire is really out? It could reignite the following day after leaving and there's you proud of yourself for following "leave no trace"... Same with tree roots especially resinous pine ones. Gave the video the downvote it so richl...

From Santander you could do worse than following my Spanish Divide route that you'd probably pick up at Reinosa. This meets the Montañasvacias trail at the Rio Tajo or if you want to start from Teruel, there's a Via Verde from Ojos Negros that takes you a more direct way. Thanks Duncan. I got engro...

Montañasvacias is a great adventure @woodsmith &thebrowndog A group of 5 from on here did the route in Sept 2019. You're correct woodsmith, the Vuelta had a stage finish on Pico Buitre which is adjacent to Javalambe, I was on the finish line having ridden up. Here's my report on the MV Bearbones tr...

Don't worry about it. You'll soon stop riding at night after seeing your first mountain lion

I wanna do the trip to Spanish Lapland that was planned for this year but replaced by a ride around Dartmoor, which was probably tougher to be honest. It just looks amazing. https://montanasvacias.com/spanish-lappland/ @PaulB2 .... go the Big Bro frameset fella. Mine has become only the second bike...

Maybe this may help us and give us some "experts"* to snigger at tomorrow night Alpkit Night In: Journeys by Foot Description: Spend the evening with Al Humphreys, Athena Mellor and Chris Townsend as we talk about the joy of journeys by foot and the freedom that ultralight backpacking gives us http...

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Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:59 am

My theory is the EU and he US are more gullible and easily forced into buying 29 + stuff

Thanks for your generosity with this helpful comment. Without this kind of insight how could we ever have reached the bright
sunlit uplands that every day brexit is proving to be.

Bonty XR2's are a fine substitute and lighter to boot. It is annoying that 29+ seems to be popular in the States and Europe but never seemed to take off over here. My conspiracy theory being that the UK bike industry wants to sell people full suspension bikes, not rigids.... How are the XR2's for d...

There another one here, also Poland but both the tyre and the postage is cheaper.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Opona-MAXXIS ... x#shpCntId

3 in stock here
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MAXXIS-Chron ... SwhI1a0Gjv

My bad. They are in Poland

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Mon Jan 18, 2021 12:55 pm

Which one? Very interested

One of these Dave. I couldn't really find a bad review.

https://thermos.co.uk/ultimate-flask-500ml

Looks good. Does it fit in a standard bottle cage?

The guidelines I've seen for chain wear replacement is 0.5% on 12 speed, 0.75% on 9-11 speed, and 1% on the rest.
Topeak do a really small, light chain wear guage but it only has a 0.75% setting.

#GravelWanker t-shirt and some Maxxis tyres.

I was interested to see that the discussion threads on both the Radavist and Bikepacking.com chose to focus on the technical aspect of apparentley yet another boost wheel standard while we chose to ridicule the pretentious marketing

Not sure what this says about us ( or them).

Ordered

Is there the ability to choose T-shirt colour? Couldn't see one but there is a good chance it's just me being thick.

. Shame Maxxis have dropped all their 29 x 3" tyres. Chronicles are still availalable. [/quote] Really? I went looking for them last year and came up blank, got any links? :-bd Looking forward to trying the bonty XR4s - I think they may be better than the minions. [/quote] They're still listed in M...

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Chronicles are still availalable.

So embarassingly bad I almost had to hide behind the sofa.

Looks good. Any idea on the weight?

Thanks for linking the video Stu, I really enjoyed watching that.
I met this guy on my thru-hike of the Continental Divide Trail in 2019 as it follows the path of the Colorado Trail for about 450 miles. I was one one of the hikers whose trail names he mentions ( Bear Bait) at 8.22.

Any idea how the fit compares to Giro helmets?

New video from Bikepacking.Com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9af-MCSTEtg&t=15s

Bought a Thermarest NeoAir X-Therm to replace an Xlite that got multiple punctures. Really pleased with the increased level of comfort and warmth. Carbon poles for the Trekkertent from Stu's Emporium Maxxis Chronicles. Seem to roll and grip just as well as the WTB Rangers they replaced with vastly i...

There's quite a lot of road riding on thr second city divide. If you're wanting the max amount of off road I'd look elsewhere, The Great North trail perhaps