Hello and welcome to the lunacy

You can start any month you want so if you start now you'll have done a year by next September's bivi

By then you'll have 12 months in a row and will want to keep going so as not to break the steak Good luck.

GXP BB cup bearings and tool to suit. Was hoping the BB would come with a wavy washer that the setup requires but got short changed by Sram :roll: (was a boxed part too!). Oh well, got a wavy washer on its way now, hopefully it will arrive at the weekend… I've found the wavy washer usually comes wi...

DAY 5 – CALDICOT TO HAY BLUF We woke to an overcast morning but the forecast rain had been early and only light. Last night’s issue with finding a bivi spot, and having to ride on later to find one, had actually resulted in a first class location. We were in agreement that this was the best spot yet...

Chapeau Boab

You know the 200 in BB200 stands for 200 km? You rode 55 km more on Saturday and only 20 km less on the Sunday, so no need for BB200 anxiety

I ran Barzo front and Mezcal rear for both of my BB300s, seemed to be ok.

There's not really the mud we get down south. As long as they're durable with some tread you'll be fine.

Mine was on my big trip with Mike (see report) but there's 6 nights to choose from and the one I'm counting* is in the next installment which I'll not get round to posting until Monday.

* Chosen out of the 6 as it was the highest

I think (by my friend's experience of them) that Dub are just rubbish, sorry. You'll need new cranks to get away from them. The longest lasting BB I've ever had came on my Planet X London Road, it's done 3500 road miles and 1500 mixed miles when I put gravel tyres on it, that's over 7 years and stil...

We went a bit freestyle and off-piste at times as the signage was tricky to follow. I'm sure we went under a car park at one point, all concrete columns and graffiti. The closed section was somewhere out of town in the run down to the bridge, cutting through industrial estates. Looked like they were...

In the prison when Jane worked there they had to remove the hand sanitiser as the inmates were drinking it. Assuming yours is alcohol based as well then I'd recommenced that, plus you'll have fresh breath afterwards

DAY 4 – HONEY STREET TO CALDICOT Having had pizza for breakfast 1 there would be no rush to look for food this morning. The campsite was right next to the canal so once packed away we were straight back on route. We were now going to follow the Kennet and Avon canal through to Bath some 30 miles awa...

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2023 11:14 am

RIP wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 10:50 pm Caption Contest...!

Isle of Wight prison service promises tighter security

I was worried I'd get a barrage of PM's from the lady's if they saw me in them but if you insist I'll chance it

DAY 3 – RIDGEWAY TO HONEY STREET (WEST OF DEVIZES) After a relatively incident second day, day three would provide much more content for the trip report! Away early but a slow coffee and slow packing up gave time for the first of the other trail users to pass. It was Sunday morning and we were right...

DAY 2 – SIDE OF A FIELD TO SOMEWHERE ON THE RIDGEWAY We were up early and after a quick coffee packed and away. Back on the canal which by now I had seen enough of. The vegetation and lack of width were particularly bad here. Unless some works are undertaken to these sections, they’ll be lost in the...

Nowt wrong with a non-BaM bivvy thread, good idea in fact. Although "Last Night's" rather imposes a fairly brisk time limit on the report :wink: . Getting the reports in within that time limit might be an issue, but when have we worried about rules :wink: https://live.staticflickr.com/655...

Shaf, we were heading south, and I'm back home now, but that's for the offer. As for the injectors, the AA have a special van that does this, but it's not just VW's, it appears all makes of modern high pressure electronically controlled direct injection diesel engine are blessed with injector proble...

If I'm honest I've not much of an idea which canals we were on, they are quite 'samey' :lol: I'm relying on Strava to work it out. When I get to the final installment I'll put a map up but I'll save that to keep the excitement for now :wink: although the list of extras should give away some of the p...

During lockdown Mike had planned this route but not had a chance to ride it. As he had a block of leave in September he asked me if I’d like to ride it with him, the title is the name of the GPX he sent me, not including the list of extras :grin: Andy (Chickenlegs) was also available to join us for ...

I've got a Youshiko YC4000 which was recommended, maybe even on here all those years ago.

As well as charge it will do clever stuff like discharge before charging, variable charging current and test them. Charges 4 x AA or 4 x AAA or a mix as each battery has separate charging control.

Make sure it's the Pro which are 2500 mAh, the normal are only 2000 as far as I can see.

Does it have to be lithium? I use Panasonic Eneloop Pro AA 2500mAh Ni-MH. They are technically only 1.2V but this has bever caused an issue. I bought mine in 2017 and they gave 30 hrs use in an eTrex. On a trip earlier this month I changed the second set out at 60 hrs total time so they haven't degr...

Richard G wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 12:51 pm

RIP wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 8:31 am I thought you 'd say you'd finally be ready 10-15 minutes after you got back . Good luck Rich anyway.

Lets be honest... that does sort of fit.

The question on everyone's lips is.... do you have a fully assembled and functioning bike?

Excellent levels of lunacy by all

I wonder if when the time comes they'll let you have adjacent rooms at the asylum or if they'll keep you separated so as not to be a bad influence on each other

I've used the 'glueless' lezyne patches on a pillow and still going strong some years later.

Here's mine



There were quite a few to choose from on my OS sheet, perhaps we should say it needs to include some land? In which case, this one