Best psych myself up like Eddie Hall (the idiot... but they'd call us that!?) before he lifted half a tonne and had a mini stroke (kind of). For me it's "trundle, trundle, just keep trundling along " I'm woefully under prepared so it's all about moving efficiently and consistently followi...

Obree DQ'd for having his on backwards

They are already stuffing blown up camelbak bladders down their front so it's probably faster........

Shaf' always remember that doubt has destroyed more dreams than failure ever will.

Closely followed by Strata Florida

It's being used on club 10m TTs within the month

Gonna keep training with an 'in' head and see.how I get on..

I think you are overthinking it, turn up with the kit you are supposed to carry, ride, be sensible, anything less than 36 hours is a victory, anything else is a day or so on the bike

I might have one. Message me if you don't get sorted as I'll have to dig it out

My training has been rubbish this year, so was wobbling

Then realised that it's just a challenge against myself, finishing or not is fine

So I'm still going

Don't let the demons overtake you, just give it a go, you are stronger than you think you are

Just get off and push Shaff. You are still making progress but giving contact points and legs a rest. Moving slow is better than not moving at all!

This got me round in 2023

No badge but wow what a sense of achievement!

I think you should have a special badge for getting round that horror

I always add a elastic band or bobble to reduce the chances of losing it off the bag, don't ask why I found this to be important

Correction on the email address, apologies for the fat fingers

Very interested, I'll pm for pics

Pubs usually have a meal local shops and garages are still pretty much useless ( biscuits generally )

I would have thought you would be navigating from Gregg's vegan sausage roll to Gregg's vegan sausage roll....

I'm surprised the swear filter doesn't kick in when the "other place" is mentioned

I'm all up for remoteness and wilderness and I'm not asking for sag wagons :cool: but hike a bike for the sake of it (i.e. when there are perfectly good alternatives) just isnt fun for me. I did the winter event and having no friends and not knowing the area randomly plotted a route. On return I co...

Then got home for about 1800 so it was pointless

Disagree, perfect for riding out to some isolated high moorland to then push your bike across in the semi darkness

BB200 training

If someone had broken an ankle or something in the tussocks last year it would have made for a long cold night and a search party on sunday night Unfortunately instant rescue isn't a feature of wild places, on bb200 and 300 you should be carrying enough kit to comfortably bed down and avoid hypothe...

I was impressed by the couple with fully loaded paniers on bromptons in Durness today

Make it £110 including postage and I'll take it

Still looking

Spotted these hubs https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/392281237608?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=DxbLgvT0QzW&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=NWplBX4PSaC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY But listed 8-10 speed When I look on the Shimano website they are listed as 11 spee...

Yes, I weighed the cylinder I'm filling to make sure it wasn't over filled. Put the cylinder that you want to fill in the freezer for a bit. Works great as far as I can tell I also found some high quality butane propane mix at the local independent DIY place to use for fills Mine was a fleabay special

Indeed, I was told something in the region of 250k and 300k a year loss at CyB. As with anything in the public sector it will be interesting to see why that loss is generated. I suspect a large chunk is overhead and capital costs for works being lumped on it If they shut it they'll still need to lo...

Their fortunes will pick up when you can fast charge an ebike in an hour (assuming the network can take it)

I get the feeling that a lot of the XC types are focusing more on out and out strength rather than technical ability - the number of wipe outs on the World champs course last year seemed to bear this out.. I think it's the opposite, world cup courses are getting more technical and so are the riders...