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- Sun May 19, 2024 12:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Hope you're alright Bob? Maybe...? It's been a wild six weeks*, with some ramifications I'd rather not think about at the moment. Looks like I'll need to invest in some sort of pill box, as they're fair going be be rattling around for the foreseeable. 🤷 * I'm sure I'll more open about it at some un...
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536359
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Went to see a psychiatrist on Wednesday, there has been a lot of staring into space since.I should be cheery as it's answered a couple of questions and explains a lot. Might go out of a cheeky bivvy tomorrow night.
- Sat May 11, 2024 7:52 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
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Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
Last night, in the garden. Visible with the naked eye, even with all the light pollution from Cambridge...
- Fri May 10, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47442
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Sunday morning at 06:00 was even better...
Not sure what happened with the photo, the artefacts are on the original RAW file.
Not sure what happened with the photo, the artefacts are on the original RAW file.
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47442
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
A full WRT report will be along at some point, maybe. Stopped early on the Saturday evening. https://media.bobarnott.com/gravel/2024-05-04-saturday-night.jpeg Got up later than normal on the Monday morning. https://media.bobarnott.com/gravel/2024-05-06-monday-morning.jpeg Sat: https://www.strava.com...
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Mad quilt idea, perhaps!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 203
Re: Mad quilt idea, perhaps!
Other than the fact it weights a ton (I have one, don't ask), you're essentially after a Selk’bag.
- Wed May 08, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT 24 thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 448
Re: WRT 24 thanks
Thanks Dee and Stu! Despite ticking off quite a few of the GRs (or passing very close by), we didn't see many riders over the weekend, which was a surprise/shame. But the weather was far better than expected and I didn't wear my waterproof at all. Plus there were more pubs on this years route which ...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend me a quilt
- Replies: 21
- Views: 694
Re: Recommend me a quilt
I have the Thermarest Vesper 32 UL Down Quilt and really like it. Although it can be too warm in high summer, and it's no where near warm enough for me in deep winter. It works really well when strapped to the Thermarest NeoAir UberLite , and I can just about get away with it strapped to the rectang...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT 24 thanks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 448
Re: WRT 24 thanks
Also Mike and co after that horrible wet, muddy, boggy uphill path that lead to a non existent path through the woods (at SH972098) They showed up just as I had exhausted myself and was starting to lose it. Having a bit of a scout ahead to see if we could get through, saved a lot more unnecessary e...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:47 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: FS: 30" TLD Air Mesh liner w/TMF® pad
- Replies: 1
- Views: 389
Re: FS: 30" TLD Air Mesh liner w/TMF® pad
Free to anyone who wants them tomorrow morning at the WRT, or in the Wynnstay this evening...
- Fri May 03, 2024 10:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
- Views: 536359
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Driving to Wales later, in the rain. Sort of cheery...?
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 64
- Views: 7910
Re: WRT GR's
Well, a provisional route has been sketched out. Maybe a touch too much climbing for my legs in their current state, so will ponder for a few more days...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The pickled egg (and other bar snacks) thread
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2475
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: 4022
- Views: 536359
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: 64
- Views: 7910
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: 64
- Views: 7910
Re: WRT GR's
Thanks all!
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 64
- Views: 7910
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: 1138
- Views: 209663
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 2:09 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47442
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: 549
- Views: 47442
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: 3141
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: 8554
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: 19
- Views: 4268
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: 50039
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: 491
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...