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- Wed Feb 14, 2024 10:23 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I had originally decided to travel to Ruabon (the nearest station to Llangollen, to meet Lu/FrogAtTheFarriers) via Birmingham because I could take a “local” train ("for local people") from here to Birmingham International then one more direct to Ruabon via Shrewsbury, making it just one ch...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:09 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Heeelp. Live (half dead?) BaM In Progress with Frog. Turned up 24 hours too soon (long story). Pub. Beer. Stagger out. Pontcysyllte aqueduct again! Wind. Rain. Tarp. Rubbish photo below. Tomorrow? Who knows. Heeelllpp. Don't mention Sarah's panda slippers. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/5352605...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1789
Re: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
I've got a list ready here if you need a starting pointDave Barter wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:56 pm I think selective eradication is what is needed not total annihilation
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 10:43 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1789
Re: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
All over the place that was :smile: . Is he for or against? For or against the flying bit or the whole concept of far-away mega-events? Personally I'll just hang on to his final phrase: "Will taking all the time and the expense and the environmental concerns into consideration encourage more pe...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I like the slate plate. Quite the trendy bistro .
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:19 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
aaand another one. 53!
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:30 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Yeah and only my mum calls me Reginald . And only when I've been naughty. Which is most of the time.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:21 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I have thought about it, as I agree, it's a bit mad we haven't met in the middle somewhere yet. Would love to do a bit more riding in The Chiltern Hills, as I've pretty much just been on the Icknield Way and would like to explore them a bit more. Not adverse to a slower couple of days, assuming I r...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:07 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
A quick "Happy Birthday" to that stalwart Bammer - James G :-bd . I think it's your "Granite" birthday - a bivvy in Aberdeen to celebrate perhaps? :smile: 'Bammer' has a slightly different meaning up here :grin: But still rather applicable in present company methinks :grin: . I ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
A quick "Happy Birthday" to that stalwart Bammer - James G .
I think it's your "Granite" birthday - a bivvy in Aberdeen to celebrate perhaps?
I think it's your "Granite" birthday - a bivvy in Aberdeen to celebrate perhaps?
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
For a change, I know exactly where that is, having cycled passed it on a few occasions now. It's always looked a bit too busy to pitch up at, but just where you hang a right to head back to the visitor centre, and tap, I've thought about going straight on, and kipping there, on the edge. :smile: Yo...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Bit breezy out there. With our usual sense of skill and daring... oh alright, sense of tomfoolery and harebrainery... we chose one of the windiest days of the year to go via the highest point in Bedfordshire. Yes I know it's not Scafell Pike but there's not much between us and the Black Mountains. B...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:51 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Well putting the Gatewood up in 40mph winds is a good game. Sleep well all .
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:14 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
MP is proposing an extension of The Rules. He'd like to allow a fusion of cars and bikes for BaMs - pedal cars. Excellent idea and I shall allow him to elaborate. I'd like propose an extension to his extension - pedalos! A sort of fusion of bikes and... what... packrafts?
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:06 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
V wrote: nature of emergency
I didn't enquire - just general diverse alarums and commotions I think.
Oh, apparently "it's Monday". Definitely an emergency .
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
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Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Yeah, missed you missus :smile: Live BaM In Progress. Emergency BaM called by MuddyPete. Half seven, shove some gear into some bags, out the door at eight. Apparently high likelihood of kipping in a cathedral - now that will definitely put the cat amongst the pigeons in the sheds/structures fraterni...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Saddle design
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- Views: 259
Re: Saddle design
thenorthwind wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 7:51 pmI worry the same could quite quickly apply to the owner too
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Saddle design
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- Views: 259
Re: Saddle design
Not tried that one (£130+?!) but as part of my Great Saddle Investigation I bought one of these: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53508957759_fe5342315c_z.jpg ... which I have to say wasn't 100% successful, so I then had a go with one of these which strangely enough almost worked... https://live....
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
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- Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:40 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 495
- Views: 22148
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Did I overthink everything to do with this? Yes. Did I change my mind about where to go than five times? Yes. Did I delay because I was too scared to commit? Yes. Welcome to the game! Looking forward to hearing about some more japes and capers. Luckily for you we're all perfectly sane in this corne...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT entries CLOSE SATURDAY
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- Views: 912
Re: WRT entries open
Pick n mix is the top priority surely?
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT entries CLOSE SATURDAY
- Replies: 21
- Views: 912
Re: WRT entries open
Well I'm in twice due to finger slippage . Just have to do all the GRs two times I suppose.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
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Re: Have tarps lost their popularity?
I usually avoid the need to wriggle out of waterproofs by aiming for good weather. That way I also avoid all the issues of tarps and tents by carrying neither. It often works well, but not always :| Ah well, I like to avoid issues of carrying any shelter at all and sleeping in sheds but that doesn'...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
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Re: Have tarps lost their popularity?
Indeed... the only tent with a huge space in which you can get out of your wet kit easily is one you can stand up in! Unless you can stand up, both tarps and tents are a wriggle job to get out of wet gear so that cancels out.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 6:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bivvy curious
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- Views: 890
Re: Bivvy curious
Head-on collision...... BANG!
You could always blow up your bivvybag and use it as an air-bag in said collision.
But of course a tarp is much easier to get out of in case of an accident......