Haven't had one in ages, might have to sort that out.
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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The pickled egg (and other bar snacks) thread
- Replies: 12
- Views: 226
Re: The pickled egg (and other bar snacks) thread
I was once the Dalgety Bay Cricket Club pickled egg eating champion. Those were the days...
Haven't had one in ages, might have to sort that out.
Haven't had one in ages, might have to sort that out.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3990
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Walked out of the ice rink to see a fox slinking along a fence by the entrance. Then while waiting at the traffic lights to get onto the main road, a super floofy owl landed on a fence post, eye balled us for 10 seconds or so, then flow off again. Bloody love owls, so that made me right cheery!
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1130
Re: WRT GR's
Does anyone else plan their trips around likely places to sleep? I've got a rough plan for day 1 but that's where my local knowledge dries up. I have in the passed, but didn't last year, which was a mistake. Ended up riding around Hafren for ages trying to find anywhere flat, that was wasn't compac...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1130
Re: WRT GR's
Thanks all!
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1130
Re: WRT GR's
Due to the sub standard hitting the fan at home, I've not really had much of a chance to look at the grid refs and obsess over creating a route. It's not an area I've been to yet, so I'm lacking knowledge of where all the potential re-supply points and what not are. So, are there any SPAR's or other...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 1129
- Views: 197834
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 508
- Views: 26641
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Thankfully I decided to head towards Wicken Wild Camping (currently shut) It's a shame that they closed this place :cry: When I phoned them about booking it in December last year, they said they were hoping to open it again later this year. I'm assuming the composting loo needed moving or something...
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 508
- Views: 26641
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Top work JudithG! Sounds like a proper adventure. With my daughter out at her girlfriends and my wife out for the evening with a couple of her friends, I was at a loose end. As I'm on-call over the end of the month and with the weather being settled, for a change, I decided to head out for my bivvy....
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: The Welsh Ride Thing - Lonely Hearts Club Ride - Sat 4th May to Mon 6th May 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 761
Re: The Welsh Ride Thing - Lonely Hearts Club Ride - Sat 4th May to Mon 6th May 2024
I think the only thing that should be pointed out, is Reg's penchant for cycling during extreme precipitation... Do we know if Karl has also angered the rain Gods in some way...?
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 2314
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
Bike packing is clearly bike and camping. Removing one ( camping or bike ) means it cannot be bike packing ( how far you go is irrelevant) Not sure that argument stacks up though. If bike packing is named after back packing, then your argument would suggest that to go back packing you must also cam...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 684
Re: Travelling across Europe quickly - how?
As an aside, sharing a drive could work, but what if they talk too much or really annoy me (or vice versa)? I guess I could leave them at some service station in Essex.... Buy a good pair of noise cancelling headphones. I shudder to think about spending 1,500 miles in a car with someone I barely kn...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 46459
Re: What are you reading now?
Since my last update, I've knocked off both of these, which I thought were excellent and inspiring: Other Ways to Win by Lee Craigie Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham I then started to read Disaster Capitalism by Antony Loewenstein , but have had to put it down. I'm now knee deep in: ADHD...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Exped Downmat clumping... maybe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 182
Re: Exped Downmat clumping... maybe
Mine feels like it has something similar at the top of the mat. I assumed it was a bit of foam to stop the down for migrating between tubes... ![🤷](//cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@latest/assets/svg/1f937.svg)
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 9:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cranktank 3 vs cages on fork + smartwater bottles
- Replies: 20
- Views: 491
Re: Cranktank 3 vs cages on fork + smartwater bottles
If you have a frame bag, then there's cheaperer options like the Apidura frame pack hydration bladder . I wear a CamelBak Chase with 1.5L reservoir, while I'm not mad keen on wearing it on hot days, it's nice to have the equivalent of a couple of big bottles of water on me. I do occasionally run out...
- Fri Apr 05, 2024 2:39 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 508
- Views: 26641
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Ouch, I feel your ditch pain. Heal quickly.
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 508
- Views: 26641
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
https://meagaidhblog.sais.gov.uk/2024/04/an-cearcallach-moy-coire-rain-snow-rain/ See images of Met Office forecast over March - looks like we need to head to NW Scotland. Similar parallels to 2012 when The NW got roasted and the rest of the UK nearly drowned, for the whole of spring and summer. We...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:49 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 508
- Views: 26641
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Evidently, in February, we had 248% of the twenty year average rain fall around here.
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 10:45 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 983
- Views: 124008
Re: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
Lighter weight fly material as well, 10D v 15D...riderdown wrote: ↑Wed Apr 03, 2024 9:58 amLooks the same as https://www.sportpursuit.com/catalog/pr ... id/2679553Alpkit have an new 900g tent, the Ultra 1.
But with carbon fibre poles
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:14 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4932
- Views: 1223323
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
You mean you don't want to curate your kit down to the last detail...?
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 508
- Views: 26641
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Headed out late last night after disco night at the ice rink. Would've been earlier but needed to chat to my wife about our daughter who has gone and given herself an eating disorder that is way worse that we first feared*. 😞 Conditions were super grippy and I had to stop multiple times to scrape mu...
- Thu Mar 28, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cleaning tyre sealant off a frame
- Replies: 2
- Views: 502
Cleaning tyre sealant off a frame
The arse end of my gravel bike is covered in dried on tyre sealant. It doesn't seem to want to come off with the application of detergent and elbow grease. Anyone got any tips on how to clean it off...?
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 508
- Views: 26641
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
So has anyone studied what looks like an inverse correlation between the time remaining in the month to get in a bivvy, and the likelihood of it being raining? It was absolutely hoofing it down last night; tomorrow is looking rather bad as well. Was thinking about going out tonight, but daughter is...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The Wolf Way
- Replies: 5
- Views: 683
Re: The Wolf Way
Note that this isn't a year round route, due to the Felixstowe Ferry : Daily service from May to September, weekends only from Good Friday to 30 April and October. 10:00am – 5.00pm (weather permitting). EDIT: My first thought after looking at that is they've managed to make various bits nice and con...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11450
- Views: 1940033
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3990
- Views: 509212
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Just about to go and shove 1KG of coffee beans through my new grinder. I'm like a kid with a new toy... 😀 Bob. It's Friday evening, you should be drinking beer, not coffee! It was a kilo bag of the cheapest crap I could find, no way would I want to make anything with the resulting grounds. 🤮 Will b...