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- Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:54 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1511
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Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
Good to see the youths taking an interest in this :wink: Never thought of it like that, only 1 in the crowd was around 20, Looks like our generation is a dieing breed. Too interested in their gaming now I guess. Reckon for a certain age group "being into bike packing" involves following s...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:42 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 450
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- Tue Jan 30, 2024 1:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sleeping Socks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 788
Re: Sleeping Socks
I use Heat Holders to sleep in when its cold and really like them, but then I don't especially suffer with cold feet. I have a friend who uses them as well and does suffer from cold feet and now uses them on Duke of Edinburgh as well.
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 450
- Views: 69985
Re: What are you reading now?
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Stewart quotes from 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby in that book, which I highly recommend - not just an insight in Afghanistan but also the world in the 1950's.
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Really enjoyed Eric Newby, The last Grain Race was my fave and really enjoyed A Short Walk too.
Stewart quotes from 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby in that book, which I highly recommend - not just an insight in Afghanistan but also the world in the 1950's.
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Really enjoyed Eric Newby, The last Grain Race was my fave and really enjoyed A Short Walk too.
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 450
- Views: 69985
Re: What are you reading now?
Just finished The Man in the Tent by Toni Beardsall, He was struggling mentally and in middle age decided to take up camping and that led walking and then moved into a tent full time and much of it wild camping. Quite light hearted and an interesting read.
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2840
Re: Have tarps lost their popularity?
I've used a flat Tarp for years and no bivvie bag and did so when back packing before taking up bike packing some years ago. Love this setup for all of the reasons listed already, especially the feeling that you are in the landscape rather than isolated from it in a tent. Been out in all sorts of we...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7138
Re: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
Following on from my 1 minute trailer film earlier in this thread, I thought I'd best put a link up to the 6 minute version. Enjoy: https://youtu.be/PYnWcdtPIjY?si=Jo-OqpA-VhQkP8je Very pleased to have been invited to join in with the fun and have enjoyed the videos!! :grin: Cheers up a wet and win...
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What's your single best item you own for camping?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 3163
Re: What's your single best item you own for camping?
Swiss Army knife, bought in 1983 and been everywhere with me. Bit bigger than the normal pocket knife and lives in a pouch on my belt, it remembers the days when it was allowed on planes unchallenged! Blades are very worn and struggle to hold and edge now and it is nearly time to retire it and order...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:35 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: OT: Large travel bag recommendation
- Replies: 7
- Views: 571
Re: OT: Large travel bag recommendation
Alpkit do a 100l (think there is a smaller version as well) duffel with a weatherproof zip and it comes with backpack straps attached but no wheels. Love it's size as everything goes in it and I can travel with just 1 bag. Had mine a few years now and its been bulletproof!
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7138
Re: Winter Event 2024: Power Seekers - Watt did you do?
Excellent summary there and thanks to John for inviting we to join his merry band! Had a brilliant time with some really lovely people!
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 1:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4287
- Views: 647566
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Tomorrow will be a lot cheerier than it might have been. Emergency op to fix a torn retina yesterday, after a previous attempt with lasers two weeks ago. This time they used cryotherapy - freezing with liquid nitrogen. Scary stuff. Only a local anaesthetic. I don't think they actually pop your eyeb...
- Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:25 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 2023 Highlights
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7224
Re: 2023 Highlights
Enjoying reading these! Inspiration of the year (media/person/object etc)* This Forum, love seeing people doing all the fun, strange, crazy and brilliant things they do. Keeps me inspired to get out and do too. :-bd -Favourite ride/trail/trip if the year WRT, love this event and really wish I'd foun...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Winter Event entries now open.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 17474
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Stu's first Influencer role?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3698
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 1:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Winter Event entries now open.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 17474
Re: Winter Event entries now open.
I'm in, at the deep end. Taking a running jump and it'll be fine they said . Now feeling "powerless, weak and scared inside!!
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 9:44 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 5078
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- Fri Nov 10, 2023 5:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4287
- Views: 647566
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
...and I'm off to the O2 arena on Saturday night to see The Alabama 3 with my grown children and enjoy a belated birthday drink!!
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Custom UK welded frame bags?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1365
Re: Custom UK welded frame bags?
I'm tempted by those 7R bags just for their tagline, "Ride your bike where even wolves are scared to sh*t"! :lol: I'm getting one of their gravel suitcases https://7rbags.com/product/gravel-suitcase/ via Shona and Rich https://keeppedalling.co.uk/ I have two of their bags and am very impr...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 10:11 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 450
- Views: 69985
Re: What are you reading now?
This year I am re reading books I have read in the past. Usually I read a book, put it away and get on with the new one. I have done that a bit this year too, it's really interesting to re-read a book you enjoyed and found memorable years later and see the differences in what you get from it now. I...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 4:46 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 450
- Views: 69985
Re: What are you reading now?
Just finished Ghost Riders (Travels with American Nomads) by Richard Grant. British fellow living in the USA and delving into what sort of people become nomads and why. Surprised at the different sorts of people in society that are "nomadic" and how the distrust between settled people and ...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:17 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 450
- Views: 69985
Re: What are you reading now?
Finished Bothy Tales by John Burns and found it very entertaining. Thoughtful in places funny in many others, would recommend Bought the Last Hill Walker by him as well as I enjoyed his writing so much.
- Wed Oct 04, 2023 12:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11511
- Views: 2139277
Re: The post man's been ...
...a pair of spiffy Adidas 5.10 SPD brothel creepers. Colour is a lot lighter than the photo on the website but a winter of use will sort that £64.50!! bargain!
- Tue Sep 19, 2023 3:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 1115
- Views: 181632
- Tue Sep 05, 2023 10:23 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4287
- Views: 647566
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4287
- Views: 647566