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by ledburner
Sun Apr 09, 2023 11:43 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 206230

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

fatbikephil wrote: Sun Apr 09, 2023 10:11 pm :-bd
Those reflection photos are amazing!
Agreed A bit hypnotic, also the reflections are the same tones a landscape, not darker.. remarkable.
by ledburner
Sun Apr 09, 2023 12:24 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: The post man's been ...
Replies: 11458
Views: 1990615

Re: The post man's been ...

According to the text from my neighbour, postie brought a giant box with a wheel and more... So should be the swytch kit for my wife's bike. Fingers crossed, as she wants to get riding again but could do with a bit of electrical help in order to manage our hills I'm sure there are a few of us wanti...
by ledburner
Sat Apr 08, 2023 12:38 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Sciatica & cycling!
Replies: 24
Views: 1458

Re: Sciatica & cycling!

Ptvitals on instagram.do a lot of posts on this, rehab posture etc...
PTVitals sciatica
I can't to any harm to look it up.
by ledburner
Fri Apr 07, 2023 1:32 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 206230

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

Nope nor did I touch anything in there, more likely to catch something of the beer can paraphernalia and spliff ends ...and don't trust local water sources, deffo bring your own :wink: .. I suppose this applies to all bivvies in post- industrial locations. :-bd Else Darwinism will reduced this nich...
by ledburner
Fri Apr 07, 2023 11:49 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 206230

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

Came across this pepper pot looking ruin on yesterdays ride, not sure of its history but will find. Potential for a BAM just all the empty tinnies and tobacca pouches lying around would suggest not https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52799390836_8b0e31d19f_z.jpg processed-cac3800a-f2e4-4232-84ef-a4...
by ledburner
Fri Apr 07, 2023 11:39 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Fat Fighters '23
Replies: 483
Views: 90523

Re: Fat Fighters '23

Maybe. Dunno Dan. Didn't feel dehydrated but I did think about it :grin: I suppose end of the month and a proper morning weigh-in will tell... I 'fess up. #metoo In the interest of fulfilling my curiosity (and possibly yours), I did another weigh-in this am at my usual (non-ramadhan) times. So afte...
by ledburner
Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:30 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Fat Fighters '23
Replies: 483
Views: 90523

Re: Fat Fighters '23

02/07/21 76.5kg 31/12/21 77.6 kg 01/01/22 78.2Kg 08/04/22 73.3kg 14/04/22 73.8kg 22/04/22 73.9kg 31/12/22 77.7 kg 13/01/23 76.8kg 20/01/23 76.9kg 27/01/23 76.9kg 03/02/23 77.0kg 10/02/23 76.3kg. 0.7kg. thats half the weight of a human brain. :???: 16/02/23 76.6kg. (next day 77.6kg) blimey have I eat...
by ledburner
Fri Apr 07, 2023 7:02 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: The future of insulation ?
Replies: 19
Views: 1374

Re: The future of insulation ?

A Swedish sportswear brand Elevenate is listing Fellex Kapok Insulation as one of it's sustainable technical insulations. :lol: Kapok really , but it claims to be water resistant :ugeek: ?
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by ledburner
Thu Apr 06, 2023 11:51 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Happy birthday to our great leader!
Replies: 15
Views: 1368

Re: Happy birthday to our great leader!

As usual late to the party, Thanks for everything. Many happy returns, and feel free to sod the lot of us!
by ledburner
Thu Apr 06, 2023 11:32 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Fat Fighters '23
Replies: 483
Views: 90523

Re: Fat Fighters '23

redefined_cycles wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2023 11:27 pm Maybe. Dunno Dan. Didn't feel dehydrated but I did think about it :grin: I suppose end of the month and a proper morning weigh-in will tell...
I 'fess up. #metoo
by ledburner
Thu Apr 06, 2023 11:23 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4023
Views: 539527

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65177440 Be vigilant Bob; Yorkshire - if your head swells up to the size of a balloon you'll know you're number 2. Joking apart, not nice, I don't envy you folks in tick hotspots. Further down the BBC News post, BBC News - Justin Bieber: Singer reveals he has Lyme ...
by ledburner
Thu Apr 06, 2023 11:07 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What are you listening to now?
Replies: 1140
Views: 211116

Re: What are you listening to now?

There doesn't appear to be many boners in to Synthwave, but to help the cause, here's this little beauty... Wojciech Golczewski - Childhood Dream https://youtu.be/Aw__XBK26EM Enjoyed that, :-bd . I'm also mildly surprised as most stuff posted to edgy or modern for my middle of road Greatest sh!ts F...
by ledburner
Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:54 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Fat Fighters '23
Replies: 483
Views: 90523

Re: Fat Fighters '23

Bit o a breakthrough today here, so I'm reporting it. Came back from the 14 mile ride on which I'd cleared a climb that I also cleared yesterday. But before that, the last time was about 2 years ago and it's not for lack of trying. The weight drop must be helping... 1/1/2023 = 83.1kg Early Feb = ab...
by ledburner
Sat Apr 01, 2023 11:12 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4023
Views: 539527

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

PaulB2 wrote: Sat Apr 01, 2023 9:02 am
voodoo_simon wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:29 pm And I bet all you’ll talk about is the children… :lol:
:grin:

First time they were mentioned was this morning when we realised it was 7:30 and we hadn’t been woken up once
:-bd good for you, we never achieved that :grin:
by ledburner
Fri Mar 31, 2023 12:32 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 206230

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

A few pics of the cabin in the daylight from a previous ride https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52782623889_522d9d9ccc_z.jpg processed-0a7a5980-cfa8-4ebb-91f6-2c4199b0c286_I6EMyc3x by Lee Rowe , on Flickr Floor or lack of Right on cue, Elton John. On radio *' I'm Still Standing'. Priceless :lol: :...
by ledburner
Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:59 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Fat Fighters '23
Replies: 483
Views: 90523

Re: Fat Fighters '23

02/07/21 76.5kg 31/12/21 77.6 kg 01/01/22 78.2Kg 08/04/22 73.3kg 14/04/22 73.8kg 22/04/22 73.9kg 31/12/22 77.7 kg 13/01/23 76.8kg 20/01/23 76.9kg 27/01/23 76.9kg 03/02/23 77.0kg 10/02/23 76.3kg. 0.7kg. thats half the weight of a human brain. :???: 16/02/23 76.6kg. (next day 77.6kg) blimey have I eat...
by ledburner
Wed Mar 29, 2023 1:05 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3325
Views: 664800

Re: Todays ride

Gathered some of the pebbles the missus had nabbed from various beaches and .... Got as far as this before I dabbed, but https://i.imgur.com/x5vUgze.jpeg .......Threw em in the track but at the top. So over time they'll find their place on the track again :shock: I thought you were paving the track...
by ledburner
Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:49 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: The post man's been ...
Replies: 11458
Views: 1990615

Re: The post man's been ...

RIP wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 10:39 am
..... but, shhh... don't tell anyone Mutt's real name is Tristan... I bet he eats avocados on sourdough when nobody's looking.... :grin:
So Macclesfield life style guru's -Tristan, Geoffrey (and Percy left earlier) :lol: :grin:
by ledburner
Mon Mar 27, 2023 10:26 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 206230

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

ergaster wrote: Mon Mar 27, 2023 7:25 pm Image
Picture from the back.

Not sure about the folk museum. Cregneash is a museum and they do folk music and dancing :lol:
A museum of traditional rural life and crafts...it was over 10years ago..
by ledburner
Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:36 pm
Forum: Classifieds
Topic: FS: Sinewave Beacon + SP Dynamo Wheel (reduced)
Replies: 10
Views: 864

Re: FS: Sinewave Beacon + SP Dynamo Wheel

What's size wheel is it?
by ledburner
Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:28 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 206230

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

Friday night and the first bivvy of the year. And in ages! Absolutely lovely to get out again. Luxury sleeping quarters... https://i.postimg.cc/kXK60L2f/PXL-20230325-070026267.jpg ...in our hotel... Just fantastic to get out again. Looking forward to seeing what the year brings. Happy hunting folks...
by ledburner
Mon Mar 27, 2023 9:21 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3325
Views: 664800

Re: Todays ride

:-bd
by ledburner
Mon Mar 27, 2023 12:11 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 206230

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

Friday night and the first bivvy of the year. And in ages! Absolutely lovely to get out again. Luxury sleeping quarters... https://i.postimg.cc/kXK60L2f/PXL-20230325-070026267.jpg ...in our hotel... https://i.postimg.cc/15q5g6Pt/PXL-20230325-070012881.jpg Just fantastic to get out again. Looking fo...
by ledburner
Sun Mar 26, 2023 11:55 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: What you done t' your bike today
Replies: 1554
Views: 278350

Re: What you done t' your bike today

Put pads in the oven, 20 mins @ 180c - et voila, perfectly functioning brakes again! This is new to me. Thanks for the tip! New to me too, might have to give that a try as the Swiss Stop pads I'm currently running are sounding like a fog horn... You wont need a bell! But may be afterwards :wink:
by ledburner
Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:15 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 4023
Views: 539527

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

RIP wrote: Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:34 pm
ledburner wrote: I still have to report, like Reg, for duty each morning :-bd
Aye we have a very straightforward and easy to understand relationship. What's hers is hers. And what's mine is hers.
That explains your dress code at weekends :lol: