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- Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 196
- Views: 13697
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: 661
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: 510
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: 231
Re: Replacement for WTB Ranger
All change. I’ve found a trailblazer while I was looking around. On eBay. £30. Thanks anyway..frogatthefarriers wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:58 pmChecking Teravail Honcho.....Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:55 pmI'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 8:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Replacement for WTB Ranger
- Replies: 3
- Views: 231
Re: Replacement for WTB Ranger
Checking Teravail Honcho.....Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:55 pmI'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: 231
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
- Views: 4170
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: 54359
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: 398
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: 1399
- Views: 137711
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
There’s good eating on one of them.

- Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Gatherings?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1602
Re: Gatherings?
Main attractions for me with WRT are: the 'vagueness' of everything between when we leave and return, bumping into each other, the social bit in Y Star and your gaff at the start, popping in to local shops, caffs, pubs etc, lots of rain. I don't (naively?) see big problems away from your place - we...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 8:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 751
- Views: 60069
Re: What you done t' your bike today
Prepping for WRT. Stripped BBs on two bikes - both mine but one’s for my minder. He’s never been bikepacking before. We’ll have to have a shakedown ride before then, I think.... 

- Tue Jul 21, 2020 8:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What's This Structure?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 677
Re: What's This Structure?
If you are ever passing Langcliffe, just up the road from Settle, have a look at the Hoffman kiln there - https://www.yorkshire-dales.com/hoffman-kiln.html . We have one of these in a disused quarry near Minera, north-east of Wrexham and due east of Llandegla trail centre. The last time I was there...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 8:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: GCN does bikepacking
- Replies: 88
- Views: 3545
Re: GCN does bikepacking
I was just wondering, how a comment about a short YouTube Video about bike packing (watched it, didn’t find anything of particular interest), became a three page not-quite-argument about racial discrimination. 

- Fri Jul 17, 2020 8:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: GCN does bikepacking
- Replies: 88
- Views: 3545
Re: GCN does bikepacking
Is this a game of spot the white man ? are you saying the reason most top positions are held by white men at the same % ore for the same reason- white men just hapen to be disroportionately better than BAME and females - is this what you want to argue? I used to ride at Llandegla a couple of times ...
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 9:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Chain pliers, needed?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1324
Re: Chain pliers, needed?
^ This is what I do, but I’ve got a thick/thin chainring so have to do it on the cassette. A bit fiddly on the back, but works every time.
- Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 9300
- Views: 1053008
Re: The post man's been ...
Acepac seat harness from Bb Towers. Thanks. Bought it for my minder. Now I’m sort of jealous - it looks like a good bit of kit.
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT August?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1511
Re: WRT August?
You are very kind. Thanks
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT August?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1511
Re: WRT August?
Sent you another entry for my minder.Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:40 amEntries are still open Paul.Are the places gone or will there be some available when the date firms up?

Edit... Actually, not, because the WRT Entry page is not there. So how do I pay?
- Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT August?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1511
WRT August?
It’s quite a few weeks until August B/H and the proposed deferred WRT, and given the way things are being eased in Wales, it seems quite likely that it can take place. At least from a “staying out overnight“ angle. I suppose from a “no gatherings greater than x” it’ll be harder to predict. But anywa...
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 9:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tow bar bike racks?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 823
Re: Tow bar bike racks?
sorry to resurrect an old thread, but im now actively looking for a rack and have come across Witter, who appear to be a good value option. Anyone here familiar with them? They seem to be experts in all things tow bar-y. When I first started carting bikes around (one for me and one each for the gra...
- Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bugger, I think it's my fault.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 460
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 8:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 9300
- Views: 1053008
Re: The post man's been ...
https://i.postimg.cc/tJ3zqDQN/EAB31563-9438-44-BD-B6-CB-C4629222947-E.jpg I have two of these. Work fine. Taken some serious stuffing. But given that they’re made to measure, I wish I'd specified that the zip should be on the other side. Why? Because I’ve found it easier to pack it with the bike on...
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 7:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What do you think about when you are riding?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1546
Re: What do you think about when you are riding?
The actual riding with regard to how far, how long, etc doesn't really ever factor. My brain tends to be filled with ... I wonder how long it took to build that wall up there? Why do people tie gates up with bailing twine? I wonder how many people worked in this mine? Ooh that's a lovely old barn t...
- Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hammock set-ups
- Replies: 15
- Views: 719
Re: Hammock set-ups
Hammocking is always my preferred option for bivvying -comfy, dry, roomy. Did I say comfy? So for hammocking I take a hammock (obs), tarp, quilt, underquilt For ground-sleeping I take tarp, quilt, neoair, and tyvek ground sheet. The big dilemma for me is always, “Will I find some trees?” Easy if I’v...