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by MuddyPete
Wed Nov 01, 2023 7:15 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Winter Event entries now open.
Replies: 67
Views: 14129

Re: Winter Event entries now open.

Still, Stu's probably laughing his head off 'cos it's probably nowt to do with our power grid :smile: . Indeed...my money's on politics, landed gentry, the disenfranchised underclass, a distinct lack of energy supply, or quite simply tussocks so huge you wish you had more power to overcome them :wi...
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:22 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3322
Views: 608479

Re: Todays ride

Same route as yesterday, but with more sunshine :-bd .
Riding along Bulbarrow ridge gave me a lovely view of several small cloud inversions across Blackmore Vale :cool: .

Back to Beds today to prepare for "Storm Reg" on Thursday :-SS
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:56 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 182389

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

RIP wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:38 pm
MuddyPete wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:00 pm
RIP wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:09 pm ...so am intending to go out on Thursday when there's supposed to be heavy rain and 50mph winds here.
What?!? You didn't tell me that! :shock:
"Pete, I've just found out there's going to be heavy rain and 50mph winds"
OK, thanks :-bd .
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 31, 2023 1:00 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 182389

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

RIP wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:09 pm ...so am intending to go out on Thursday when there's supposed to be heavy rain and 50mph winds here.
What?!? You didn't tell me that! :shock:
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 31, 2023 12:56 pm
Forum: Anyone playing out?
Topic: Winter Bivvy?
Replies: 53
Views: 34719

Re: Winter Bivvy?

Blackhound wrote: Tue Oct 31, 2023 9:42 am Off to a panto in Stoke on the official weekend.
Oh no you're not! :wink:
by MuddyPete
Mon Oct 30, 2023 11:38 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 182389

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

It's nights like this that remind my why bivvy bags are not for me. I Well done for making the effort :-bd . Bivis can be a bit of a chore sometimes. I've found the simple stuff like getting the stove on and a tot of Bailey's in the coffee, instead of milk, usually perks me up for the ride home in ...
by MuddyPete
Mon Oct 30, 2023 10:51 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3322
Views: 608479

Re: Todays ride

Dorset. Last night's BIBLICAL :shock: rainfall on Bulbarrow created the essentials for an hour of good, splashy fun on the C2WFH this morning :-bd on the tried-and-tested "Airman's Loop". https://maps.app.goo.gl/s8pETg2kXCZMd4Pr9 Start from Okeford Hill; head for the WW2 memorial; a slithe...
by MuddyPete
Sat Oct 28, 2023 3:11 pm
Forum: Anyone playing out?
Topic: Winter Bivvy?
Replies: 53
Views: 34719

Re: Winter Bivvy?

RIP wrote: Sat Oct 28, 2023 10:25 am Traditionally it's the weekend before the weekend before Crimbo. In this case Dec 9/10th...
...to avoid clashing with the "Strictly..." final on the 16th :wink: .
by MuddyPete
Sat Oct 28, 2023 8:07 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Replies: 3943
Views: 482290

Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.

Earlier this week discovered the cup-n-cone bearings in the skip bike were worn out :| . Friday - new wheel with sealed bearings delivered by my LBS :-bd . I look forward to wearing these ones out, too :lol: . Also: the thumbies I fitted last week to the P7 have been ace. No more faffing with precis...
by MuddyPete
Wed Oct 25, 2023 9:33 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3322
Views: 608479

Re: Todays ride

Excellent stuff, Reg.

Gritty urban realism is underrated :grin:.
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 17, 2023 10:53 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: First attempt...
Replies: 9
Views: 623

Re: First attempt...

Good stuff :-bd . When it comes to shelter, think like a tramp. Leave the tent at home and use whatever shelter you can find that's provided by nature or man-made (possibly by recce-ing during a previous ride :wink: ). Such as: beneath the canopy of dense fir trees; under a cricket pavilion porch; b...
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 17, 2023 9:19 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: Wildlife
Replies: 669
Views: 129131

Re: Wildlife

Blimey Lu, sounds epic. Glad you're back safe and sound. :-bd

Keep losing your glasses as often as you do and eventually you'll start finding them again. :wink:
("Blimmin' pensioners, coming over here, leaving their spectacles lying around all over the place...grumble grumble")
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:43 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
Replies: 18
Views: 3942

Re: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...

Dyffers wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 6:09 pm
MuddyPete wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:48 pm ...Turner's Puddle, near Throop, Dorset...
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Part of my commute if I'm not on the road bike. :-bd
Ace!...Worth going into work for :-bd .
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:40 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
Replies: 18
Views: 3942

Re: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...

I was sure the UCI had standards for fording, proscribed in the grovelly bike bit of their ever evolving regs, so I checked, and indeed they do. When fording, to oount as a ford and therefore grant UCI Ford Points in an affiliated race,, the ford must be 5cm above the rim of a 700c bicycling device...
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:38 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
Replies: 18
Views: 3942

Re: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...

redefined_cycles wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 6:17 pm What's fording season pls Pete. Is it when the fords are just high enough to still drive/ride without too much trouble but also getting wet :smile:
Rainy, Shaf. Just rainy :grin: .
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:49 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3322
Views: 608479

Re: Todays ride

Just posted a repository for aquatic action (Ford Fiesta....) :smile:
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:48 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...
Replies: 18
Views: 3942

Ford Fiesta, River Crossings, Etc...

Yes, I know the title's been used before but I hope Stu is flattered as I "draw inspiration from his creativity". Yesterday's excursion to Turner's Puddle, near Throop, Dorset prompted a search of the BB archives for river crossing action. I couldn't find much so here's somewhere to record...
by MuddyPete
Tue Oct 10, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Todays ride
Replies: 3322
Views: 608479

Re: Todays ride

Yesterday's, actually. It started off as a "Just popping into Blandford for a haircut", but whilst sitting outside a café congratulating myself (for being good) with a post-haircut coffee & bun, Mrs MP called to say administrative matters meant I had until teatime to occupy myself :-bd...
by MuddyPete
Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:11 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 182389

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

RIP wrote: Thu Oct 05, 2023 2:48 pm ...I've never seen Pete "Muddy".. I think we should be told....) ..
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Still, those dirndls are rather agreeable aren't they :YMDAYDREAM: .
I cleaned-up my act :smile: .

And those traditional Alpine bib-shorts have a lot going for them, too :wink:
by MuddyPete
Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:06 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: The Dullest Square
Replies: 19
Views: 1339

Re: The Dullest Square

Is the grid square served by a single-platform station with one train a week (in one direction only, of course :smile: )?

Sounds like a "winter bivi" in the making... :wink:
by MuddyPete
Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:13 am
Forum: General banter
Topic: Ham Curious
Replies: 33
Views: 2242

Re: Ham Curious

dlovett wrote: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:53 pm One option for travelling light on a sup, seems to be hammocks.
Or just use the SUP as a mattress? Particularly if it's a bouncy one. :smile:
by MuddyPete
Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:08 am
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: "Wye?". No, no.The question is of course "Wye not?"
Replies: 26
Views: 3045

Re: "Wye?". No, no.The question is of course "Wye not?"

Raggedstone wrote: Tue Sep 05, 2023 10:58 pm ...professional giggler...
Reg unleashes his superpower :wink: .

Entertaining write-ups all round for a lovely little jaunt.

9 cafés, you say... :shock:
by MuddyPete
Sat Aug 19, 2023 12:44 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 182389

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

...nice to see Pete doing some grassland Quadrat assessment. Cheers Phil. According to the University of North Arizona: "...With slow moving or non-moving organisms, the quadrat survey technique can be effective..." Sounds eminently suitable for a survey of "slumbering bikepackers pe...
by MuddyPete
Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:36 pm
Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
Replies: 1037
Views: 182389

Re: Bivvy a month 2023.

No wrong-un's here, mate o:-)
Although that could be the next Boner t-shirt slogan. Reg, you're a genie-arse :-bd .