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- Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:30 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: NC500 in 1925
- Replies: 12
- Views: 582
Re: NC500 in 1925
That's brilliant. Tweed jackets, hike a bike and smoking tabs. I wonder how many hills they had to walk down due to inadequate brakes?
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:20 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: HotPog Classic Pogies SOLD
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5844
Re: HotPog Classic Pogies SOLD
Apologies, I got called into work and forgot all about this. Enjoy your pogies, winter is coming.
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:05 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1246890
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
There are a couple of good looking retro ATBs on Facebook Marketplace in Cockermouth, Cumbria for a good price if anyone's into that sort of thing. Nothing to do with me, and I haven't got the time to ride the bikes I've already got: https://www.facebook.com/groups/136171799736852/permalink/72798053...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 8:42 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: HotPog Classic Pogies SOLD
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5844
Re: HotPog Classic Pogies
PM'd...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 11:00 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: EU bike shop charges!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8180
Re: EU bike shop charges!
When it comes to VAT/duty you are dealing with a bit of the state apparatus that you really, really don't want to be messing with :lol: My dad would say that if the Inland Revenue turned up he'd make them stand outside in the rain, if the customs/VAT man turned up he'd just say "in you come&qu...
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 8:30 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Are you analogue?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 22083
Re: Are you analogue?
The bike that I ride the most is fully rigid with mechanical disc brakes (gotta move with the times) and 2 X 9 gears with a friction shift thumbie for the front. It's like going back to the 90s with better geometry and brakes that actually work in the wet. I've barely touched my hard tail since I go...
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 12:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Riding in sandals....... anyone ?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1489
Re: Riding in sandals....... anyone ?
Either Tevas or Keens, whichever are nearer the door when I'm heading out.
- Mon May 22, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What summer mat is flavour of the year?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1070
Re: What summer mat is flavour of the year?
I use an Uberlight for 3 seasons and rate it. As long as the ground isn't already frozen when I set up camp it's been good for me. I use a full length wide mat, I don't mind carrying a little extra weight for a good night's sleep.
- Sat May 20, 2023 3:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 983
- Views: 132905
- Thu Apr 13, 2023 10:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Raised Reversed Stem
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1192
Raised Reversed Stem
Seth's reviewed a new Raised Reversed Stem which looks interesting.
I'd like to try one to get my bars higher, but don't fancy forking out $400...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apyTlND9Cuo
I'd like to try one to get my bars higher, but don't fancy forking out $400...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apyTlND9Cuo
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 3:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Putting ‘mountains’ into mountain biking
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2376
Re: Putting ‘mountains’ into mountain biking
I biked over quite a few of the Back o' Skiddaw tops last year, it's a fantastic and underrated area where even someone as unfit as me can actually do a fair bit of riding rather than pushing.
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 10:32 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: FS Wildcat Double Ended Drybag (now reduced)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 601
Re: FS Wildcat and Rockgeist
I'm trying to send a pm re the Rockgeist Armadillo Drybag protector if you still have it, but for some reason it won't send...
Cheers, Michael.
Cheers, Michael.
- Fri Feb 10, 2023 7:49 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sleeping Bag -40c. 😁
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1323
Re: Sleeping Bag -40c. 😁
there is a bloke on youtube ,channel called kent survival has been using it for a few weeks now . apparently it very good, warm ,no condensation , dont know the weight or how it packs down though Weighing just 1810g, the Biigloo Aerogel sleeping bag is a stunningly warm sleeping bag at an incredibl...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 4:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Do you remember your first time?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2689
Re: Do you remember your first time?
Loads of camping trips as a kid in the local woods, my mates and I had our first "proper" backpacking trip to The Lakes when I was 14 in 1986. Crap sleeping bags, plastic bivvy bags, Cobmaster external framed rucsacs, building site waterproofs, Baked beans, tinned hotdogs and Beanfeast to ...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 3:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fatmap
- Replies: 2
- Views: 360
Re: Fatmap
I used the free version of Fatmap when I walked the Camino Primitivo last year and found it very useful. If I was going to be walking or cycling a lot abroad, especially away from marked trails, I'd happily pay for it.
- Fri Dec 16, 2022 7:29 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Geometry question - not maths homework.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 644
Re: Geometry question - not maths homework.
This is very specific, with a sample size of one (me), but I had to pack in mountain biking in my twenties after a bout of carpel tunnel syndrome. I returned to it a few years ago when my son showed an interest and had the same issue, despite my new bikes being more upright than my old 90s mountain ...
- Thu Dec 08, 2022 9:03 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Great North Trail guide book - free
- Replies: 6
- Views: 417
Re: Great North Trail guide book - free
Yes please Chris.
On second thoughts, scratch that mate. Give it to someone who's actually likely to do it in the next couple of years.
On second thoughts, scratch that mate. Give it to someone who's actually likely to do it in the next couple of years.
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 4:50 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: GFBD
- Replies: 8
- Views: 859
Re: GFBD
Looks great Geoff, the work you did is paying off.
If it's any use to you, I've found that those bags of self-lighting charcoal are a good alternative to carrying wood if you're going somewhere with a fireplace.
If it's any use to you, I've found that those bags of self-lighting charcoal are a good alternative to carrying wood if you're going somewhere with a fireplace.
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 8:19 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 398687
Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
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Beautiful area, very understated around there
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Agreed. When I moved to the area from Cumbria I had very low expectations, but I discovered loads of great bike rides and walks in beautiful countryside.
Beautiful area, very understated around there
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Agreed. When I moved to the area from Cumbria I had very low expectations, but I discovered loads of great bike rides and walks in beautiful countryside.
- Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 398687
Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
Were you in the Queen's Parlour?frogatthefarriers wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 5:14 pm
This was above my head in bed on my latest bivvy. Stripy sandstone.
- Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:07 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: A funny little night out...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1060
Re: A funny little night out...
Fog can be really odd, especially in darkness. My strangest experience was in daylight though, when I was canoeing on Loch Shiel. It was so thick I had to paddle on a bearing using a compass on the thwart, and I seemed to be in a dome of clarity about 10m wide. The only sounds were those made by me ...
- Mon Nov 07, 2022 5:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: made possible by advent of ‘fatbikes’
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7976
Re: made possible by advent of ‘fatbikes’
And I've just discovered another one of this site's eccentricities
- Mon Nov 07, 2022 5:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: made possible by advent of ‘fatbikes’
- Replies: 46
- Views: 7976
Re: made possible by advent of ‘fatbikes’
Good luck to him, but I wouldn't fancy pushing a bike over miles of sastrugi, especially a bike with a heavy horse-drawn sledge attached.
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1246890
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Reduced 5.10 Freerider shoes at Needlesports:
https://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/ ... 63184c114c
https://www.needlesports.com/Catalogue/ ... 63184c114c
- Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ventile - Alpkit Jump the Wagon
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1548
Re: Ventile - Alpkit Jump the Wagon
I have a Ventile jacket that I only really use when I know that it's going to be windy all day, especially when it's cold. I find it much more breathable than synthetics and it's very quiet. Not that I'm sneaking around creeping up on unsuspecting beasts or people I hasten to add.