On the BBC this morning they ran a piece on the earliest arrival of migrating Swans from Siberia. Previous early arrivals have coincided with cold winters and have been used by farmers for centurys as inicators of bad weather but I think at moment the talk of a cold winter are due too the el nino ef...

Just used pliers on my multi-tool to tighten the stove ever so slightly and so far so good, will have to wait and see if I have to start using force on it in which case then I will have to get in touch with Alpkit.

I started to have problems with a low flame or none at all but have found that it just needs tightening a bit as the canister gets used which on mine seems to have solved the issues.

I think it will only work with garmins ?

Before I copied the file into the garmin it warned me that certain properties were not compatable ? I have a Dakota 20 ?

I'm 12 st and have been running crest 29 for a couple of years now and 28 hole against advice and have slammed down some pretty rocky tracks with big drop off's in the peaks & Wales loaded up with gear and without much finesse i might add and they are still in good shape..

I went to the cycle show yesterday and was looking forward to seeing some bikepacking gear on show as it seems bikepacking is the hot topic in mtb inustry at the moment but apart from one or two bike's on the Surly & Rocky Mountain stands and a couple of all road/gravel bikes decked out in mostl...

No worries mate i'm mapping it all anyway, i've sent you the first 4 sections with a bonus one too

Johnnystorm i can't seem to reply to your message, i've got the first 4 sections mapped to Woodhouse Eaves which you can have by all means and i'm getting round to mapping the last 3 sections which you have one yourself so if your not in hurry i will get them mapped asap but if you want to message m...

Probably me being a bit thick but i don't seem to be able to reply to a message..any help would be appreciated..if johnnystorm reads this you can have the gpx's by all means just mesage me your email but at the moment i only have the first 4 sections to Woodhouse Eaves mapped but if there's no rush ...

Better not show this thread to the missus as she has an unhealthy fear of slugs, she can't even look at them so she always brings a bag of salt with us and only comes bivvying/wildcamping with me as i've managed to convince her there is no way a slug would ever be able to crawl on to her face in her...

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Have posted this before about the night I took the missus on her first bivvy !!

I recently had issues with my Kraku, it had worked fine then it started to have very low pressure. I thought it had run out of gas, anyway I found that it just needed tightening better which was achieved with some pocket pliers. I was using Coleman canisters but have just fitted a jetboil one and ev...

Earlier this week i did a 150 km 2 night round trip from my door into the Peak District, Friday took the road bike & the missus for a 30 km out and back on the bridleways & farm tracks around Kinver Edge and today took the mtb on a 75 km local loop trying some new bridleways which didn't tur...

Bikepackers magazine have a piece on Shimano's new adventure line of shoes for "rugged' riding ..they are now on my "want it" list

When i'm bikepacking,when there's a lot of climbing involved and it's really hot i will hang my helmet on my bar roll and when me & the missus go for a Xmas day road ride we ride without a helmet !

Lol i'm having that feeling right now i've been planning a 3ish day 230km ride from Aberystwyth back home to Stoke over the Cambrian mtns and Long Mynd for a few weeks now starting this Sunday and at the moment the forecast is rain every day !! I'm hoping they're wrong or it will change..i can live ...

There's an off road lejog on the CTC website but you have to be a member to access it ...

Me & the missus are interested in coming we live local but i'm meant to be working till 12 on Sat but i'm trying to twist my boss's arm to let me have it off

Knowing that the last 20 years went in a blink of eye & I wasted too many of them & they only go by faster & in anothe 20 years I will be well on the wrong side of. 60

I use a Terra nova laser comp 1 which weighs a bit less than a kg but is a bit of a squeeze with 2 less so if you just use the outer which is what I do. There is a 2 man version though . Even lighter is the Terra nova laser photon. I'm saving up for Cuben fiber job from the States though which works...

I'll have the whole north south divide route mapped soon, if anyone is interested I'll post the gpx. So far I've got the first four sections from Aberystwyth to Woodhouseaves mapped which if the weather God's are kind in the second week of April the missus and I will be having a crack at !

I've got a Stans Alpha 340/Goldtec Track hub set for my sscx with Schwalbe rocket rons tlr which were a nightmare to set up but eventually got them up but when ridden hard would lose air which I guess they must of been burping, but since building the rim bed up with more tape they have been a lot be...

Lol..I thought that at first but once I got into it I enjoyed it but I could spend hours staring maps.. thanks for the offer JS but I'm kind of looking forward to saying I mapped the whole route now but I'm more than happy to share it with you when I'm done :wink: I thought i'd update on what we're ...

That's handy JS ..I really like how mtb epics have done the guides with the turn by turn instructions and grid refs leaving you to map it yourself.. I've mapped up to Woodhouseaves so far which is just over half of it, might post the gpx when I've finished as I think it could become an ITT !