Just me?

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Thanks Pete.

https://i.postimg.cc/RVCxyHyQ/PXL-20240420-211845507-2.jpg A quick overnighter to a spot I camped at with a mate for his birthday last year. He sadly died at the start of this month after a fall in the hills near Crianlarich. The funeral is on Friday, so I took the tent to work on his eulogy. So ma...

I'll have you know I was glamping with my wife and bairns just last week.


Somehow I still ended up sleeping outside in a tent.

Got meself a slug plug repair kit which will hopefully deal with most issues. If it comes to popping in an inner tube, that's a problem for future me. Will be sure to let you know how it goes.

Thanks Shaf, good advice. I've been avoiding tubeless for years and got away with it, but four punctures in as many months decided me.

Presumably you have to give the bike a run/tyres a spin regularly?

Gone tubeless. No more psssing punctures for me.

Nice one Jimmy. I was at the Museum of Flight today for the first time, getting my ear bent about Concorde. Beautiful plane. I've been looking at hillforts and castles around there so might poach a night in your manor soon. Sorry to hear you're out of it Dave - shame the night in the YHA doesn't cou...

Fuly expecting you to have spotted dogs on the next one.

Talk about upping the ante; I'm still counting hours, not days. Maybe once the kids are a bit older - not even sure I could get away with two nights at this point. Loving the concept though and sounds like a few are well on the way there already.

One hundred! Well played sir, and marked in style.

I learned a new word today - sapid.

Definitions from Oxford Languages
adjective
having a strong, pleasant taste.
"sapid nut bread"
(of talk or writing) pleasant or interesting.

Which was nice.

Might try that. Over 8 hours the other night the mat needed reinflating 3 times. Patched a small hole before but either it didn't work or there's another. Grr.

Tasty

Brilliant. Liking the early morning bridge pic in particular.

Is that the subway at the back of Edinburgh park? I vaguely recall trying to get into that years ago when I lived in South gyle but it was firmly barriered off.... Nope, but will keep that in mind. This was under the slip road where the A68 peels off the bypass. Underpass kipping - another original...

Couple of busy weekends coming up so snuck out last night for an easy one half an hour from home that was guaranteed to be dry, and flat. https://i.postimg.cc/J7ZntMgC/PXL-20240309-224518925-NIGHT.jpg Found a way under the bypass last year and noted at the time how quiet it was. There was a buzzing ...

While we're taking quotes out of context. Selfishly speaking I'd rather this particular place is left alone as a remote wilderness. I like the idea of it as mid-ride pub. As for nuclear power stations, I was confused to find the Scottish Green Party were against them when I joined. Then I learned th...

https://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=24352 popping this here to have it all in one place. Again, thanks to John Lazarus for putting it together (and commiserations for his mechanicals), to Shaf for setting it all up this year, and apologies to fatbikephil for not including a ref...

Cheers. You can't see them in the photo but there were a couple of broken and abandoned panniers which I was investigating. Had headphones in so didn't hear these guys approaching and probably entirely innocent. Still no idea where they went though as there's a slight corner and then a long straight...

Ooh, tempting in that case. QR too. Let me think about it and I might make you an offer, unless someone else can use them.

Thanks for the offer Phil. I've got a straight steerer carbon fork the now; it was the mounts I was coveting. My bodged solution seems to be working OK.

It was a cheeky ask right enough, and thanks to Lazarus for humouring me. The plan was to stop in for breakfast on the way home last Sunday (they're open for 10) but I like this way better. Nearly got mugged on the way home just now mind. https://i.postimg.cc/c1fsdYcs/PXL-20240302-204326895.jpg Stop...

Regrets not speccing a tapered headtube. Ah well.

https://i.postimg.cc/6QLtbFtZ/PXL-20240302-185224447-MP.jpg Mission Accomplished. GR7 Stewart Brewery in Loanhead which I have a lot of affection for a) having enjoyed a keg of Edinburgh Gold in a mate's garden when lockdown restrictions lifted and b) they supply free beer for the morning after the...