Never heard of him but, seems a decent chap and a nice review too :-bd Where the hell is he riding? Absolutely stunning scenery and the road looks vaguely exciting He's an ex BBC local news presenter (Newcastle IIRC, I do remember seeing him on Nationwide way back in the day) and from other videos ...

You don't say what sort of terrain you wish to ride - looking at the Trek 920 I'd say more towards the gravel, forest road, farm tracks type of terrain rather than anything uber-technical. Yay/nay? Given that the Trek is sub 13kg *with a pannier rack* I'd say that's not too shabby, my Genesis Croix ...

The notion that panniers are Taboo is strange coming from the opening post. To me its gone full circle with Tailfin Ortlieb and OMM latest offerings. Never got the high up weight on most bikepacking setups. How many spend day after day on singletrack weaving in-between the trees? Its perfect for th...

Riding a bike? Check
Enjoying themselves? Check
Not causing trouble for other cyclists? Check

I think that covers it.

It's nowt to do with the type of luggage you use or where you stay but a mindset IMO. I saw a post on FB the other day with the usual soft luggage v panniers type stuff and one chap said, " why would you not use panniers, you can fit loads more in them" ... this bloke does not have a bike...

The puns seem to be coming in ones and twos

I wonder which first world loo that one in the woods is twinned with?

Reg will be pleased to know that I’ve finally finished the wall I was building when we had our ride around the South Lakes. Not that I have been working on it every day - the weather this winter has seen to that (I only managed two days in December for instance) Just another several kilometres to go 🤣

Given the "state" of the RoW as often mentioned on here, it does seem somewhat odd to spend so much money on improving it to any useful/usable state. Actually to do it to a usable state is likely to cost a lot more than a million. Reminds me a bit of Derbyshire Council's repairing of Rushu...

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:16 am
The rest of the ride was just me muttering “FFS”

Just like the portion of the ride before you met him then

80nm?

Is that Nnnnnnnneugh! or maybe up to getthatoffyoubuggers in British Standard engineering terms?

Update In the end I got a 42t Microshift cassette and a Shimano GRX 2x111 (RX810) derailleur off of the CRC close down sale. Fitted them today and shifting is nice and smooth. Although the maximum cassette for that mech is meant to be up to 40t, the 42t is no problem and didn't require a goatlink o...

Piece on the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-68643341

Crikey that were a close hobbling thing! I think she's the first Brit to finish it - the early years on the spreadsheet don't have nationality so can't be sure.

Largest ever number of finishers despite “That new section is brutal. You are a bad man.”

GregMay wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 9:40 pm Damo Hall in - but scratch.

That's gotta hurt! "Damian Hall came in from the wrong direction after not completing loop five of the #BM100."

We have a winner!

At time of writing (20:24) there are about 52mins left until entrants are timed out. Could be close for some. (dit dit daaa)

Looks like there are seven runners(?) out on the last lap. First time that there's been this many left at this stage. The seventh made it out onto the final lap with just three minutes to spare!

This comment had me laughing...

We are hoping there is no intervention from the Tennessee state legislature, as we currently have seven runners in transition

£100 an hour for skilled labour We live in very different worlds if you think £100 an hour is a reasonable hourly wage for any human beimg to earn. ( shaf is a nurse and is nowhere near that for example nor is a teacher etc or indeed almost anyone working. Remember that this isn't a full time rate,...

As Dave says, the guy is also taking the risk that he doesn't wreck the surrounding material. If the guy is good then that's unlikely but he still has to factor it in to his pricing. I just did a search for "uk bike shop labour charges" and got figures from £40/hr up to £65/hr (that was in...

One way to look at the cost is how many hours at *your* pay rate would you spend on it. A rough estimate is your annual salary in thousands divided by 20 so £30k = £15/hr. Of course you need to factor in whether you can do the job in the first place or if you want to do it - there are jobs I can do ...

Given the gales I've swapped dry stone walling for some database normalisation. As you do

Tony, you could do a good loop from close to your door:

Head to Mytholmroyd, up Cragg Vale, down to Rippondon, up Oldham road over the M62 to Denshaw, road back over Buckstones and down to Huddersfield.

Three long steady climbs, the first and last are quite alpine like.

The number of times I've woken up with a start thinking someone is shinning a torch in my face only to realise the clouds have cleared and it's the moon :lol: Unless you sleep outside you don't realise just how light it is on a full moon, but it needs to be otherwise how would the werewolves see wh...

It's longer than feared https://ridewithgps.com/routes/45752621?fbclid=IwAR3Bcf39yHtaZBWBS4ueBj_q1-NXJR8nW3raXT3eeT17m2JzuintYO5poT8 He's a naughty boy. For those on FB https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ASRKat84arWhpB9C/ Start Skipton, reverse YD300 to Pately Bridge, nip across to Thirsk and ride NY...

Tony, 14m per km is pretty flat for the Pennines/Dales. I've a local loop of 30km, half of it's along the canal and that has 490m of climbing (not the canal bit!), here's a Strava link https://www.strava.com/activities/10687539854 . This one is just riding up the valley to Kettlewell and back - http...