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- Sun Jan 17, 2021 11:11 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Viewranger discontinued, replaced with Outdoor Active
- Replies: 49
- Views: 1034
Re: Viewranger discontinued, replaced with Outdoor Active
Mostly looks like some serious pro level mansplaining is going on...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Why Don't Sleeping Mats Have A Pillow?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 600
Re: Why Don't Sleeping Mats Have A Pillow?
Yup. And I want it in the hood of my sleeping bag, not under it... Uhm but that means I can't then use the hood of my bag and therefor limit how warm I'll be in it :wink: A pocket beneath a hood as part of a sleeping bag, may be one solution? Either your pillow is really big, or your sleeping bag h...
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:23 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Why Don't Sleeping Mats Have A Pillow?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 600
- Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:20 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: K2 without O2...
- Replies: 34
- Views: 801
Re: K2 without O2...
Well, at least in their team. The BBC reports states that a Spanish climber died, as there's many out this year trying the same thing. Phenomenal achievement.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-55684149
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:46 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Gravel porn
- Replies: 103
- Views: 6115
Re: Gravel porn
If you had issues with the aesthetics of the Allied Able, then look away now... All the deets are on bikepacking.com, this is the Farr Twin-T . https://bikepacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/farr-twin-t-gravel-build_20-2000x1333.jpg But hey, you can an alternative to the grav, grav, version: htt...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:20 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2021
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1479
Re: Bivvy a Month 2021
Decided to leave my (V)WE grid references for another time, but still wanted to get out and participate. I wanted to get out and back in daylight, so planned to leave the house around 14:00 and wobble around some local back roads, before sleeping in the garden, the doing another local loop on the Su...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:06 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Virtual Winter Event 2021
- Replies: 35
- Views: 596
Re: Virtual Winter Event 2021
I went out for a short ride yesterday, slept in the garden and went out again today for a ride. I've decided that it's just a BaM, and I'll be saving my (Virtual) Winter Event GRs for when it's slightly less clarty, icy and I can sleep somewhere other than the garden.
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:25 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 1389
- Views: 137166
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Another time and money sink! If you want a place like this for homebrew, get yea to Jim's -> https://www.jimsbeerkit.co.uk/forum/
- Thu Jan 07, 2021 11:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 9263
- Views: 1049285
Re: The post man's been ...
... and delivered an ultrasonic water bath record cleaner.
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:16 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 2248
- Views: 308860
Re: Todays ride
Well jell... My ride today was short, felt pointless and ended up finishing in the pissing rain.ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Tue Jan 05, 2021 8:38 pmA wee bit more snow overnight made todays ride very tough for its short distance.
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- Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:04 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This weekends Virtual Winter Event - postponed
- Replies: 21
- Views: 477
Re: This weekends Virtual Winter Event - postponed
If someone would nail down what "local" means that would be useful. I can hit three different counties within fifteen minutes of the front door... Last time "local" for the purpose s of exercise was defined as ten miles, had that on some good authority, but not sure where they got that from... Not ...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: This weekends Virtual Winter Event - postponed
- Replies: 21
- Views: 477
Re: This weekends Virtual Winter Event - postponed
If someone would nail down what "local" means that would be useful. I can hit three different counties within fifteen minutes of the front door...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:28 am
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: January's Virtual Winter Event 2021 (Covid lockdown edition) Jan 9th and 10th
- Replies: 608
- Views: 12345
Re: January's Virtual Winter Event 2021 (Covid lockdown edition) Jan 9th and 10th
I promised my wife and daughter that I was sleeping in the garden this weekend, so it's either that, or the sofa. When I go out being a #DitchSleeper, they watch a movie together in our bed. So I'm still planning a couple of short rides on each day, but probably in daylight, rather than late/early. ...
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 3470
- Views: 627472
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 5:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 15974
Re: What are you listening to now?
One of my Xmas presents...


- Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:25 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 13 speed.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 540
Re: 13 speed.
Rotor have been selling the hydraulic 1x13 system for a while, it's not cheap. It also doesn't say, gravel, anywhere in the bumf, unlike the Campag one.
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 4:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cold weather tips
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1120
Re: Cold weather tips
Something I couldn't recall when I did the first post was about adding things like electrolyte powders to your water. Generally it's not a good idea. The term used on the training camp was "Homogeneous Nucleation", it's not really if you look at the technical definition but the end effect is the sa...
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 1:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1135
- Views: 232105
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 1:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Pad-less Bib Longs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 241
Re: Pad-less Bib Longs
Thanks all, a few options there to consider. I didn't realise the Galibier bib longs came in a pad-less version, they however, are still on the naughty step for refusing to replace the bibs that had failing lycra after four rides. I'm also not sure the world is ready to see me in fluro technicolor r...
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 8:56 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 2248
- Views: 308860
Re: Todays ride
Was the cafe expensive? I'd find it hard to leave, and do the last run home. :roll: The food and coffee were free*, but the chores... 😂 Good effort that man. Not sure I have the mental capacity for that approach. Not sure it's something I want to pursue again, to be honest. Three different loops of...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 12:01 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Pad-less Bib Longs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 241
Pad-less Bib Longs
Does anyone have any recommendations for pad-less bib longs...? My leg warmers aren't cutting it when it gets down to zero, so I'm considering something else to pull over my existing bibs to provide extra warmth. The pad-less variety seem rather few and far between...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 11:57 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 2248
- Views: 308860
Re: Todays ride
TLDR; Completed the #FestiveBollocks yesterday and am enjoying the #FestiveFuckAll today. Given we're in Tier 4, I didn't really think it was that appropriate to be heading off on +160 km single loops around the countryside. That I wouldn't be able to stop at friendly local cycling cafés, was also a...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:51 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: So.....how did we do?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 409
Re: So.....how did we do?
Already started, rather than buying more bike gear for Christmas, I've just bought an ultrasonic record cleaning machine, so I can get all my vinyl back into a playable condition. Good plan. Did that a couple of years ago. Well I couldn't stretch to an ultrasonic, so went with the fluid-based Disco...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:10 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Gaiters ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 356
Re: Gaiters ?
I had a pair of the Vaude Bike Gaiter long , which were OK. I had the first generation, without any extra reinforcement under the toe, so that bit obviously disintegrated pretty quickly. They do a short version too, which might be preferable, depending on the length of your waterproofs. I think they...
- Tue Dec 29, 2020 10:57 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: So.....how did we do?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 409
Re: So.....how did we do?
Do BaM Accumulate all the necessary bivy kit Cycle 9000 km over the year Take part in some mass participation events - Dirty Reiver and Frontier 300 Join the Riverbank Club and do loads of open water swimming Read 32 books (I've read 17) I did BaM, even if some of them were in the garden. I bought ...