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- Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Watching the goldfinches on our birdfeeders. Great entertainment. I'd say "free entertainment" but they're going through those sunflower hearts like me through a choccy bar. We're having to buy them by the lorryload to keep up. Nice Reg. Here this morning I was watching the family of blue...
- Mon Sep 28, 2020 8:11 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Recommended MYOG stove?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1689
Re: Recommended MYOG stove?
My go to stove is here :-
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Made from a cat food can with a sawn-off aluminium Budweiser bottle inside. Plans gleaned from the internet.
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Made from a cat food can with a sawn-off aluminium Budweiser bottle inside. Plans gleaned from the internet.
- Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Safety features!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1428
Re: Safety features!
I once read that the best safety feature for a car would be a 9 inch sharpened steel spike sticking out of the centre of the steering wheel. Drivers would make sure they didn’t hit anything with one of those fitted.
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:35 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 132639
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
Lu ! Thanks for exploring ! I hope to God we don't do any of that stuff... :lol: So do I Eris, So do I! I've had a re-think with a lot less climbing (but still plenty). I'm still looking to do the Wayfarer from Llandrillo end, but starting with a lot of canal towpath and lanes to get there. The wor...
- Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:10 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 132639
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
September BAM - done! 9 of 12 for 2020. A very (too) hard ride around the Berwyns to check out a route for the Pensioners Outing next month. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50341908728_c61d855b06_n.jpg Its worse than it looks - the last 8 miles was on canal towpath. I got back to the car a broke...
- Fri Sep 11, 2020 9:30 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
'S my birthday and I've just finished packing for my September BAM. Roll on tomorrow
- Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: It's vanished, gone into the garage black hole
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3851
Re: It's vanished, gone into the garage black hole
Today. Locked bike to a lamp post outside the bank. Walked away to join the queue, then realised the Etrex still on the bars. Walked back to get it and found I’d lost the key for the lock. Searched ground around. Emptied pockets several times. Nothing. How can this be? Searched again and found it ba...
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:44 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 689
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Re: Wildlife
This chap was sitting on his log just by the bolt end of a gate we had to go through on the WRT on Saturday. Southern Hawker dragonfly. A beaut!
- Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13320
Re: WRT
I posted a BAM for August earlier in the month so WRT bivvies are here. The scales of shame (in kilos) :oops: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50291392746_83bf844e7f_z.jpg Bivvies 1 & 2 Saturday... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50291565197_616ed3b0ab_z.jpg Sunday... https://live.staticf...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 8:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT - remote weigh in?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2641
Re: WRT - remote weigh in?
26.3 kg. 58 lb in old money. Disappointing! I’d thought I would be lighter this year
- Thu Aug 27, 2020 8:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What Handlebar Bell - I know forgive me
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4234
Re: What Handlebar Bell - I know forgive me
I love my Ding-Dong bell. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49394849987_a721a714fd_z.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50275900201_347161bdc0_z.jpg Sure, few on here will like it 'coz of the size and weight, but it does give a very pleasing "Avon calling" ding-dong that has never g...
- Wed Aug 26, 2020 7:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT
- Replies: 103
- Views: 13320
Re: WRT
Llandinam, between Caersws and Llanidloes. Google satellite maps show a decent car park. The only thing that worries me about my route (apart from weather, distance, height gained, availability of pub food) is that I'm expecting to be at the Towers on Monday afternoon and most of the cake will have ...
- Tue Aug 25, 2020 9:23 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 132639
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
Lu - d’you think you’ll last till then ? Be great to see you :-bd :-bd :-bd And NO racing Yes, I'm still up for it. Just have to avoid my days in work . In October:- 4,5/12,13/20,21 and 28,29th I planned a possible route for this jaunt some time back - before my medical misfortunes. I don't know if...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 8:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cycling glasses... getting old
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4310
Re: Cycling glasses... getting old
I use safety specs from Amazon, £10 a shot with a small bifocal section to read Garmin and phone . https://www.amazon.co.uk/voltX-CONSTRUCTOR-BIFOCAL-Reading-certified/dp/B004VRL6O2/ref=sr_1_8?crid=O5IWW7FD066J&dchild=1&keywords=bifocal+safety+glasses&qid=1598026032&sprefix=Bifocal%...
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 9:13 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 132639
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
I don't know whether to call this one my August BAM or wait until after the WRT at he end of the month, so you can have both... After my rather traumatic 3 months (heart attack/stents and Covid-19) the family were a bit worried that I was determined to WRT, so one of my sons stepped up to the plate ...
- Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 689
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Re: Wildlife
Look at this baby... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50248414123_e8bf2f7f07_z.jpg I had a shake-down bivvy with my son (who's never been bikepacking before) and saw this elephant hawk moth caterpillar in Newborough Forest, Anglesey. We also saw a fat rat trundling across the car park and a few g...
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 7:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What's like a small carabiner but not...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2432
Re: What's like a small carabiner but not...
What about a Dyneema soft shackle Karabiner of the kind that DD Hammocks sell? good for loading of 125 kg. Or you could make your own if you've got the Dyneema.
- Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Towing?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2094
Re: Towing?
I was at Coed y Brenin once. There was a family with a young-ish lad who were doing the Dragons Back. To help the kid on the steep bits, dad had fixed one end of a six foot length of water pipe to his seat tube vertically, so that it stood up rather like a fishing rod. It was curved and had a loop h...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Replacement for WTB Ranger
- Replies: 3
- Views: 603
Re: Replacement for WTB Ranger
I've done some testing of Teravail tyres of late Lu and the 2.6" Honcho might fit the bill. Failing that, I've probably got a good Trailblazer hung up in the workshop. Checking Teravail Honcho..... All change. I’ve found a trailblazer while I was looking around. On eBay. £30. Thanks anyway..
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Replacement for WTB Ranger
- Replies: 3
- Views: 603
Re: Replacement for WTB Ranger
Checking Teravail Honcho.....Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:55 pm I've done some testing of Teravail tyres of late Lu and the 2.6" Honcho might fit the bill. Failing that, I've probably got a good Trailblazer hung up in the workshop.
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 7:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Replacement for WTB Ranger
- Replies: 3
- Views: 603
Replacement for WTB Ranger
I’ve punctured the sidewall on my WTB Trailblazer 27.5x2.8 on my Ramin 3b+. I can’t seem to find a like for like replacement. Can anyone suggest an alternative? With the chain in the lowest gear on the cassette there’s very little room between tyre and chain. I’m afraid that a wider tyre, even thoug...
- Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT T shirts for those not riding - 4 outstanding.
- Replies: 38
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Re: WRT T shirts for those not riding.
One for me too. I've entered and I'll get one anyway, I know, but it would be nice to get one for my son/minder who's not entered, but coming with me to facilitate with the recovery of my body.
Same as me, XL ta. Lu Klimaszewski.
Same as me, XL ta. Lu Klimaszewski.
- Fri Jul 31, 2020 8:05 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 132639
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
BAM July 2020. 7/12 A post somewhere here mentioned a Hoffmann kiln. It reminded me of one such near me, so for July's bivvy I puffed up to Minera quarry, the home of said kiln, a climb of 1000 ft in nine miles. Not far from home I noticed my back tyre was going flat and stopped to pump it up. Now i...
- Tue Jul 28, 2020 9:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT update.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1389
Re: WRT update.
Got the email today. To my mind, the plan’s a good-un. Especially having Ceulan as a grid ref.
Bring it on
Bring it on
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:48 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
- Views: 500132
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
There’s good eating on one of them.