did you not treat her to the central heating option on the van :D

Depends on length of the tour I guess

Don't forget that a big battery pack reduces the number of times you need to stop and charge but you need to stop longer to charge

nice van. we have an old iveco daily with a similar set up. great for getting out there and waking up at the trailhead ready for an early start

needs to be a TCX and i suggest keeping it as small a file as possible .... i tried a 200km route once , the turn by turn function worked really well HOWEVER i thought id bricked the device it took taht long to turn on !

we did 4 weeks touring in the summer up and over BC(UP Vancouver island - boat to prince rupert and the highway of tears to jasper and down Alberta to banff with a good chunk of remote unserviced camping. The first 3 weeks were grand as my igaro d1 was charging my battery pack during the day which i...

i think we are looking at different lists . mines the may 2016 DOE list. its a suggestion rather than instructional . i think there are a few issues at play - poor education from the leaders as to requrements , Vigerous upselling by keen shop assistants and lack of knowledge/ignorance from parents. ...

so if we disregard all the items on the optional list as a kid whos never been in the out doors and you want them to have a good experiance without being a cold wet shivvering mess by sunday night .... which items on the kit list dont you take ? i see flip flops/trainers/sandals - more specifically ...

My wife is heavily involved in doe. I find it staggering the number of barriers put in place . (May just be local council orientated rather than doe mandates) First example is that they need 1 2day outdoors first aider per group even if they are all walking within sight and voice in the same area......

On ones leyzyne copy.

wife rides wife tours wife doesnt do internet outside of facebook and work related sub standard so doesnt see group rides , doesnt post photos , doesnt write articles or blog posts.... she just gets on with it when the time comes :D but what i can tell you is by connection through the wife there is ...

we are thinkign about straightening a frame over 1mm ?

Lord knows you should never buy an intense..... ive had to manipulate them by 10mm+ to get them to go back together after a bearing swap - and im not alone !

thanks for sharing Greg

made a good nights reading .

a simpler way to think about it would be - hands natural position.

you dont want to be straining the wrists for a long time to sit on S bends.

Dunno non of the old guard used to mind drafting me into a headwind. - I'd only ever use them on the front or on my own mind.

Got sbend want ski bend. (On an MTB that is)

That said for clip ons for the road bike I always used jammer GT. Shape.

My TT bike has flat s bends. It rarely does more than 25miles though !

bar mitts pogies really are a godsend on drop bars

But over the years ive grown immune to my own funk. gloves now get washed when they are growing mushrooms or folk comment on the smell ...... ie at distance they reek.

ive never really thought about it in the slightest.

not everything goes on strava either. hell sometimes i dont even take a GPS - or a map.... just wander aimlessly.

guy i used to work with i had no idea was into this sub standard popped up with an entry ......

are you on here Sandy ?

have opted to ask ben@kinetics if he wants to build me a fork . lets see how that goes.

have opted to ask ben@kinetics if he wants to build me a fork . lets see how that goes.

I'm a big fan of the ragley Carnegie bars.. which are a wider mary with less rise Have recently moved to 680: loops on one bike and I'm not sure I like them on it over the Carnegie's. The Carnegie's are now on my singlespeed where they are still being vaguely exciting. Got a set of original titec h ...

Ha Mike that's what my dad's getting. Mostly because he likes coffee but has become allergic to caffiene amongst many things - coeliac - anything made with concrete (he's been a builder all his days) - lactose to an extent.) He always moaning that the instant decaffeinated mum buys him is bloody awf...

yep got the endura ones.

they are ok , dont expect the reflectives to last more than a handful of washes - the reflective hexes end up all over the utility room

and it came with a copy of their own newspaper to celebrate 150 years of saddle making. As the wife pointed out to me while she was reading the one that came with the b17 woman's she got for her birthday last week after years of not wanting to break one in.... Article 10 "this is not a tour&qu...

Absolutely, it doesn't take much to be a decent human being :)

I wonder what the "race" is limited to numbers wise ?