+1 for a Brompton. Perhaps top of my list of bikes I regret getting rid of, and can be found cheap if you get lucky. IIRC, I bought mine for £250, had it a few years then sold for £350. Plenty of folk do plenty of distance on them and they're surprisingly capable: I saw a pair of tourers on loaded B...

Im itching for another trip to the Lakes, my one and only visit on the bike was a bit of a debacle. Sounds like an itch that needs scratching then! if I have learnt one thing is that miles in the Lake District are longer than regular miles. They can be! We've a good mix of terrain on the route so t...

Mm is that the perfect taper ride.. But of course it is! :lol: It's a busy time of year, innit? We left it rather too late to 'own' any date, but looked to pick a weekend that didn't clash with anything else too similar which proved tricky. Even locally, it's the same weekend as the Sam Houghton bu...

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6eg8LMMBZr ... tiZ2p3bWE0 One of Europe's biggest events was cancelled yesterday due to heavy rain in north east Cataluña, 700 odd disappointed riders. I think the pic above about sums it up. I found it amusing when so many lost their sh1t over that muddy edition of Unb...

I'm not entirely sure how this is gonna play out, but I'm arranging some kind of free-to-ride self-supported Mint Gravel event on 15th June, and you're all invited! Mint Gravel is a 160km ↔︎ 3900m ↕︎ mixed-terrain loop around South Lakeland. It's roughly half road and half 'northern gravel', so good...

I'm biased, but as per my signature for more info and GPX, I can thoroughly recommend 'Mint Gravel' for a long day out or split over a couple of days in South Lakeland.

Tailfin is the worlds hottest vindaloo. Amazed they have ever sold any at that price For suspension fork i drilled a hole in a jubilee clip and tapped it and then used thick rubber underneath All 6 for under a fiver I've got the Tailfin ones. If I recall correctly £25 for two pairs off Fleabay. The...

voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 11:20 am Just in case someone doesn’t read the postie thread, STIF have a good sale on sweet protection helmets

https://www.stifmtb.com/collections/open-face-helmets

… and seemingly the rest of their Sweet Protection stock at 70-80% off too.

New Mezcals and new Peyote model. Peyote might be a better tyre than my Terreno for mixed use bikepacking, Mezcals are great but I want to do longer stretches on tarmac with no tyre buzz, https://bikerumor.com/vittorias-new-world-championship-winning-peyote-mezcal-xc-mountain-bike-tires/ (image pos...

Bikepacking.com has a fair list of suitable full sussers . I lusted after a Salsa Spearfish for a few years, but really couldn't justify it. I'm on an Orbea Occam TR. Bought it for similar situations and love it. 130mm travel. Carbon and alloy versions available depending on budget. There's two diff...

Richard G wrote: ↑Wed Apr 17, 2024 10:23 am I wonder if I can get some sort of tapered shim to make it work better (right now I have sort of "untapered" it with tape).

Tape never seems to hold up for long does it?

Here's the same setup but attached to full aero bars.

Another more DIY thing I've tried with some success is fixing a drj0n Double Trouble Triple to bar extensions, either full aero bars or mini ones as (really badly) pictured here. That works well to hold a roll up away from the wheel, and obviously doubles up as alternative hand position too, but the...

I went down the Salsa EXP Series Anything Cradle Side-Load Kit route having had the cradle recommended by a few folk and finding the whole kit for sale ex-demo and dirt cheap(ish). I really don't like how chunky it all seems, particularly compared to that Rogue Panda setup but it really does do the ...

whitestone wrote: ↑Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:01 pm *for 30deg form a pistol with your index finger and thumb and hold your index finger horizontal, the imaginary line between the tips of your finger and thumb is roughly 30deg.

Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race on Wikipedia Mrs Hyppy is the runner in our household and gave the 24 hour race scene a good crack before moving onto longer stuff a few years back including running some of the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence races. The Chinmoy group has some alleged cult-like hist...

Rather belatedly I've told myself to JFDI and signed up to ride this.

Apparently Tics are already rampant up there. Permethrin lotion keeps the feckers off. Hard to come by, we bought our last stash from India .😎 In checking ingredients, that's used for treating crabs, yeah? I'm not sure how closely a pharmacist would need to check down there, so maybe available from...

Bob Vylan Ah, now there's a cheery Friday double: New album released today! https://soundcloud.com/bobbyvylan/sets/humble-as-the-sun-1 I cannot tell you how good this gig was. Met The Meffs afterwards. Feck me there is hope for music. And as for Bob Vylan …. mind blowing Sounds like a top evening o...

I don't know the Trek 920 but looking at specs it seems to be a 3.04 kg frameset, yeah? That does seem kinda chunky but I wonder how much of that is having alloy (with steel steerer?) rather than carbon forks. Is it worth weighing the current forks and seeing how much weight you could save just swit...

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 9:29 am Bob Vylan

Ah, now there's a cheery Friday double: New album released today! https://soundcloud.com/bobbyvylan/sets/ ... -the-sun-1

RIP wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:27 am Turned up.

I had my long and short-sleeved bargain reversible poly/merino base layers turn up from them today. Should have gone for the medium rather than large as they're a bit loose as true base layers go but seem nice quality.

Satisfying new pads. Hope they don't squeal like nasty Shimano!! I found some part worn replacements in the spares bin and they're squealing like owt! Possibly contaminated, mind, as I've no idea where they came from. I reckon I usually get a couple of thousand km from pads, so think these could ju...

Had a front brake that had been a little noisy on the past couple of GRVL rides so thought I'd sort before this evening's outing. Maybe a left it a little long …  ~760km ridden on that on my regular terrain which doesn't tend to be that harsh on brake pads. I'm not sure if stock SRAM pads are just a...

Technically I'd say no, but I'm giving them a pass as a) CyclingUK/CTC are the national cycling organisation as far as I'm concerned, and b) it was a Steve Behr piece which makes for a nice blast from the MTB past.

Johnallan wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:05 pm … caught the sunrise in the Forest of Bowland and arrived in Morecambe at 7am.

Top effort, John!

Coincidentlly, I was taking in the sunrise in the Forest of Bowland too, en route to family for Easter.