Save yourself about £100 and google kemo m172n and buy from Conrad, I've got 2, 1 of which is 7 years old and works flawlessly.

R1g is also used as an alternative to bike, particularly on some of the US sites such as Bikepacking.com i.e Joe Blogs just completed the Tour Divide in a day on his Salsa r1g. It is disliked by our benevolent dictator and included in his eccentric swear filter and changed to bicycle, much to the co...

Doh! Went out on the bikepacking bike for the first time in a few months as I've been favouring the gravel recently, lo and behold the frame bag zip broke! It peeled back from the closed side about half its length. I managed to close it working the zip opener backwards if that makes sense but I thin...

Ah, I see, that would work. Thanks for the explanation, the straps on Amazon are looped so should work with minimal faff.

Found some on Amazon.es that look ideal, 4 short clips to see whether clipping to the mat works and 2 long ones to go under the mat if they don't.
Thanks for the tips, mitten hooks, who knew!

Thanks for the tips, if I'm reading it right, the straps would pass under the mat attaching to either edge of the quilt. This is the trussing up effect I'm trying to avoid. The ironing board clips could work if attached to the mat but I'd be worried about puncturing the mat with the teeth of the cli...

The mat thread reminded me that I've been trying to find a solution to this problem. I move about a bit whilst asleep so get cold spots when using a quilt. I thought about carefully attaching press studs to my Exped mat but cannot find ones compatible with my Alpkit quilt and they cannot help me. I'...

by JoseMcTavish » Fri Mar 08, 2019 2:35 pm

planning to take my wee fella out there in the spring too

by Borderer » Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:01 pm

Yes, that's what bothers me!

Sorry to hear about your Dad Dave, as posted elsewhere, I lost my Mum last week after 10 years of Alzeimers . Funeral's a week today so back for that. Unfortunately it's not only good news that comes in 3's, a good friend and neighbour died from cancer at my age on Friday and a long standing friend ...

Thats bad news Ian and Beth, as one of your first customers for a custom frame bag, I'm happy to say it's still going strong. Good luck with your future endeavours.

There's also a version sold on amazon by Rock Bros. I have an original Seasucker 2 bike model and it works well.

Just remember not to pitch in top of a sprinkler that's timed to come on at 6am. My plan is to carry a rig3.5 tarp bora bivvy exped downmat and alpkit quilt. If the weather gets biblical, there are options for solid shelter every night at nil or minimal cost. We are up at c:1,000 m for 3-4 nights so...

Latest News! This year's C2C will feature an authentic Lonely Hearts Club with a meeting with the Caravan of Love! :-bd ☆ No need to spend hours searching on El Tinder Jase when the Señoritas will be bussed in. This World Service programme explains it all. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p072312m ...

Just noticed that the OP has only posted once on here, do you think they survived the trip?

Having a real sh1t time atm. Friday we learnt that a German friend that lives in our valley succumbed to a 12 month fight against cancer and last night a real bombshell, a good friend from Holmfirth lost her 23 year old son and ex-husband in a car crash. Things, as they say, can only get better. :sad:

I saw a few people retrieving boxes from the Cafe du Cicliste that they'd left there last year, I didn't have an issue as I'd left our camper van and MrsPB at a nearby campsite and taken the train to Turin. We offered a box stash service there which Zero Dark Bivvy used but I'm not riding this year ...

Thanks for the good wishes chaps. Here's the route info for anyone interested.
https://www.wikiloc.com/cycling-trails/ ... 9-33628471

Instead of doing Bivvy a month, this year I'm aiming to do Caro a month. Mont Caro is local to where we live and can be nicely fitted into a 100-120km round trip, details here https://www.cyclefiesta.com/multimedia/climbs/catalonia/mont-caro.htm My Mum died today so I needed some thinking time, she ...

https://i.imgur.com/frD1IDw.jpg More proud of than like. My Mum died today. Instead of moping about I decided to find a spot a bit closer to her, 1,000m up our local Cat1 climb. Plenty of time for thinking, she was a lovely lady taken 10+ years ago with Alzeimers. F**k Alzeimers it's a horrible dis...

Not sure about Strava but it's definitely possible with wikiloc, in fact it's their main use. Depends where you're planning to ride as the UK coverage is patchy but in France, Spain etc it's a fantastic resource.

This is rapidly heading towards a Pikolax thread. An all time classic on STW.

I recommend travelling in Spain in Spring, its alot greener, there are very cheap ferries to Bilbao,

Ahem...

http://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB ... =7&t=13641

I was drag racing over in the states Nov 1999 ... never seen so much panic over nowt.

Which one was you , Stu?

Ooh, so what have you gone for Dave? Bombtrack?Cutthroat? FargoTi with Rohloff? When are you treating it to a Spanish holiday?

Here in rural Cataluna seems quite different to Scotroutes experience, it doesn't matter if your on a road or mountainbike you always get a wave or shout of venga. There's a road climb near me that goes from sea level to 1,500m in 20 odd km, a few months ago I was grinding my way up when a young guy...