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- Fri May 10, 2024 6:14 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Folding Bikes - Experiences..
- Replies: 15
- Views: 445
Re: Folding Bikes - Experiences..
Would be nice to take on holidays and I could take it on public transport etc but I WFH so don't commute. Based on my experience of commuting (I know you say you don’t need it for commuting) on the train and seeing people attempt to lug around various folding bikes along platforms and onto trains, ...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 49993
Re: What are you reading now?
I’ve recently had it arrive from bookshop.org – I preordered it ages ago.Boab wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:58 am Suddenly remembered, Coffee First, Then the World by Jenny Graham is out on paperback today...
I’m only a little way in, but a well narrated story so far.
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1247
Re: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
Used the pot I’d added heat shrink tubing to today. Didn’t burn my fingers so I guess I’d call it a success so far. I use an MSR Pocket Rocket so don’t have as much of an issue with errant flames melting the tubing.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 9:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1247
Re: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
How do you get the tube onto the handles? Depends on the mug / pot but often they can be compressed just enough so they can be sprung free from the retainers they locate in. I’ve just done this exact thing with the handles on an Alpkit Ti pot. Pulled them out of their ‘sockets’ by hand and pushed s...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205319
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
23:59 was, without exaggeration, the time I ended up shimmying into my bivvy bag on New Year’s Eve. It wasn’t meant to be this way, but a serious case of procrastination, followed by an even more serious, and nearly fatal, case of dithering led to me cutting things very close. I had originally plann...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1271
Re: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
Watched this last night. I've seen a couple of your videos before, but it took me a while to put two and two together and work out who you were.
Very enjoyable. I have now subscribed (I thought I was already).
Very enjoyable. I have now subscribed (I thought I was already).
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 3:05 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205319
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
This month's BAM was neither when, or where it was originally planned to be. As it was, I left home after work, in the dark, with the temperature already down to a solid 0ºC. I rode at a much slower pace than normal, to stop me getting too warm from pedaling while simultaneously getting cold from th...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 8:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Are you analogue?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 22195
Re: Are you analogue?
Given my age (32) and my job (web development) I would say I am unusually ‘analogue’. He says, typing this on his phone and wearing a smartwatch. I think peak analogue/manual was intentionally buying a second hand push mower and having to take it apart and sharpen the blade, instead of an electric o...
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 7:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 2023
- Replies: 588
- Views: 77811
Re: BB200 2023
We're hoping that making next year 'invitational' should provide a degree of control over who rides. I’m curious to see what form this takes as I’ve been planning to enter next year. I support any reasonable attempt to prevent people getting themselves (and potentially others) into trouble when the...
- Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
- Replies: 25
- Views: 14854
Re: To Elan Back (No, not that one.)
Wasn’t expecting to sit and read all of that. Sounds like a nice trip and well told – I enjoyed reading.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:06 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205319
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
The 'there, technically I rode my bike and slept outside' edition. Enthusiasm to wild camp was at an all time low this month. I’d put it off with various, genuine and imagined, excuses a couple of times already. In the end I went to a new spot, about as close as I could get to my house without being...
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:04 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205319
- Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Newbie bikepacking tent advice
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2460
Re: Newbie bikepacking tent advice
The Durston X-mids do look very good but quite ££ once you factor in shipping, customs duties, VAT etc. Yes, I’m very happy with my x-mid so far, but I wouldn’t say it was a ‘beginners’ tent. If you’re buying in the US, the price seems very good value. But as Jack says, once you actually get that t...
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 2:10 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205319
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Another all tarmac (except for when I got into Bedgebury Forest) BAM this month, last Saturday. 30km-ish each way. I decided not to bother taking cooking stuff with me, to try and get more used to the idea of not necessarily having a hot 'dinner' and instead just finding and eating anything with suf...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 6:03 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD: 2.5 Jones Bar + Sonder Confucius FS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 478
- Sat Aug 12, 2023 1:22 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205319
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Also nice tent, x-mid? Apart from a peg pulling out and the tent collapsing on me at 1am one night, yes. I put that down to exceptionally wet ground, only using the four corner stakes and one ridge guyline, on what turned out to be the opposite side from the unexpected wind. Otherwise, I’m very hap...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:17 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Brother Cycles’ Big ‘Un – 21st October 2023
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4201
Brother Cycles’ Big ‘Un – 21st October 2023
I’ve booked a ticket for this year’s event, it’s a 100km+ ‘gravel’ ride in Kent.
Anyone else here planning to go?
Anyone else here planning to go?
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 9:02 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205319
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
A delayed write up for July (done on the 31st,) and August (on the 3rd)... I recently spent 4.5 days cycling around the Bear Bones Bash route at a comfortable pace. Not quite ready for the BB200 format yet, though maybe with a slimmed down kit (no chair!). I wild camped for 1 night (July BAM ✓), cam...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:07 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD Bivvy Bag
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1640
Re: WTD Bivvy Bag
I've got a Hunka XL I'd be happy to part with.
I got the XL and after a few uses decided it was too big for me, so got the normal one.
I got the XL and after a few uses decided it was too big for me, so got the normal one.
- Wed Jun 28, 2023 1:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What down tube bag…
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1037
Re: What down tube bag…
Also, Tailfin, again, not cheap, but arguably worth it – https://www.tailfin.cc/product/small-packs/downtube-packs/downtube-packs/ And not all of these are downtube packs, but many are – https://bikepacking.com/gear/bikepacking-accessory-bags/ Basically, think of a bikepacking bag brand and they'll ...
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 5:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Route creation - workflow, algorithms and the like
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2012
Re: Route creation - workflow, algorithms and the like
I tend to use a mix of Komoot and (digital) OS Maps. Komoot to actually plan the route on, OS to check if the paths actually allow bikes (the underlying data Komoot uses doesn’t appear to differentiate very well between different types of PROWs). Then to plan food stops and shops Komoot has limited ...
- Sun Jun 25, 2023 2:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: sleep set up for nights like this ?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 695
Re: sleep set up for nights like this ?
Slept in a tent in the garden with my 3 year old last night. Started off just in shorts, on top of my sleeping mat. As the night progressed I put on a long sleeve top, then swapped my shorts for trousers and eventually in the early morning got into a lightweight sleeping bag. Starting off in anythin...
- Tue Jun 13, 2023 1:03 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205319
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
This month's BAM is in the form of King Alfred's Way, riding King Alfed's Way had been booked in for a while and it was only as it was a few days away that it really dawned on me that it would be a pretty big effort. I had planned to do the route over 5 days, but for no particular reason pushed hard...
- Tue May 23, 2023 8:48 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Summer baggies
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4308
Re: Summer baggies
Recently replaced a very old pair of, I think, Fox something, with a pair of Alpkit Floe shorts – which are much lighter than I was expecting m. I’ve been impressed so far, but then the bar was low.
- Tue May 23, 2023 6:18 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205319
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
This thread make all areas of the Uk look like a place to visit, even the south This is one of the main things that discovering the idea of and doing BAM has highlighted for me – I don’t need to wait for ‘big’ trips to Wales, or the Lakes etc to have an ‘adventure’, there’s enough woodlands and fie...