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- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 600
Re: Narrow-wide chainrings
I'm pretty sure that I've not engaged the clutch on my derailleur for several years, the NW works well enough. Me either :wink: Hot tip for ssp mtb riders: If you use a n/w ring, I suggest to use a 11 spd chain and a n/w cog. I'm going to try this. I currently run a NW chainring, narrow ss chain an...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 4414
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
As has been said, getting people to change if it is an inconvenience is the issue. Several of my friends have electric cars... they are all 2.5 tonnes + and 500bhp+. If they were tiny and slow would they be so keen, I doubt it. On a lighter note :wink: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53559524793...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I've had mine for nearly 5 years yet somehow your first pitch appears to be better than any I've managed in that timeBearlegged wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:23 pm New shelter arrived this morning, a second hand Deschutes.
Was it dark when you pitched it? I seem to get better results when I'm rushing and cant see
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 9:25 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Massive top tube bag
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2451
Re: Massive top tube bag
Nice work :-bd sorting the order of construction is the key to making stuff. I was saying to a friend the other day that sewing gear is just like fabricating in sheet metal but with a sewing machine instead of a welder, once you've worked out the sizes, order of construction and cut the parts you've...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Another one
- Replies: 5
- Views: 416
Re: Another one
Happy Birthday Mike...just seen its the big one, all down hill from 50.... but maybe it just seemed like that as my 50th was Feb 2020 and we all know what happened in the March. I don't have a copy of 'that' photo with the found outfit so instead here's a picture of Javi, Mike and myself on top of H...
- Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you drinking now?
- Replies: 714
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Re: What are you drinking now?
Brewdog Rattle and Rum, rum and oak chip stout, 7.4% and it's very nice.
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:22 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: GB Duro Entries open
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4054
Re: GB Duro Entries open
Not a race but you get "ranked" Sections that are "cheeky" But seen as the premier UK backpacking event No fly, no plastic, fires OK :-bd And if you win you must use your Instagram account (and all the new followers you'll have) to promote flying all over the world and riding :w...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Access Islands
- Replies: 3
- Views: 361
Re: Access Islands
I'd seen that article on the BBC. There are a couple of open access areas on the Island where rights of way go past the boundaries but there is no way (that I have found) in to them :???: One of which looks a possible bivi location but unless I'm climbing over a high fence I cant work out how I'd ge...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tubeless question
- Replies: 11
- Views: 480
Re: Tubeless question
The most important thing is once you have switched over to carry a plug kit, I use this one https://nukeproof.com/products/horizon-tubeless-tyre-repair-kit But I have also used the Lezyne ones. If you get a puncture that won't seal then you can plug it. The alternative option of fitting a tube will ...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 12:38 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Hopefully some were out last night. Down here at least the forecast from now until the end of the month is rain, he says smugly having managed to get out last week when the rain was only in the middle of the night :grin: On the plus side, when it's raining you're pretty much guaranteed to have the w...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 1:08 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Not as exciting as Reg's recent exploits but I did go on the correct day :wink: Another school-night bivi, I sleep as well (if not better) on the bivis as I do at home so no issue with going to work the next day. I left home just after 8 which even after all these times still feels a little bit naug...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 9:37 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Excellent work there Reg
The rain Gods may often be against you but the other deities seem to be on your side, like the God of being offered dry places to sleep and the God of unexpected breakfasts.
The rain Gods may often be against you but the other deities seem to be on your side, like the God of being offered dry places to sleep and the God of unexpected breakfasts.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 2394
Re: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
Yet, if we'd like to save the planet, then eradicating the human race as quickly as possible would likely provide the best outcome. You've hit the nail on the head there Stu. I've said to my friends that my only hope is that we manage to make ourselves extinct before we damage the planet so much th...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 11:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 2394
Re: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
I once described a uk event that had a rule about 'no fly and having to use public transport' to get to the start as tokenism. This upset some on here who I assume know the organisers. My point was that myself (and I'm sure others too) live where the public transport links make it a pain to get to t...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Woods Rat Run
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1026
Re: Woods Rat Run
I'm not local (Isle of Wight) but I can see it from Freshwater... which isn't much help. East of the pier there is a cliff-top road which I remember as being quiet but west of the pier it was much harder to pick my way through as the roads don't really align. I ended up on the main road going past t...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Woods Rat Run
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1026
Re: Woods Rat Run
When I rode it early morning there was a 50mph headwind blasting sand into my face! Just ride round with your brakes on and tip some fine sand into your jersey to recreate the affectgodivatrailrider wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:17 am I've done a rework inland , skirting the conurbation. Flippin shame though
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:09 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
- Sun Jan 28, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
My feet were really cold, so I put on my big winter Sealskins over the big socks I was already wearing, this didn't really improve matters. I've been trying to think what my favourite bit of kit for camping is for the other thread and you've helped me choose. I'd say it's my down sleeping socks/boo...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 1:54 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Have tarps lost their popularity?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2023
Re: Have tarps lost their popularity?
Is it that there was a group of people who 'endured' tarps for the weight saving and now that tents have closed the gap they have switched?
If it's forecast to be dry I'll even forgo the tarp and use just a bivi bag or even the hammock these days... but I'm one of the 'weirdos on here'
If it's forecast to be dry I'll even forgo the tarp and use just a bivi bag or even the hammock these days... but I'm one of the 'weirdos on here'
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:42 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Nice work Jimmy, I got out last Thursday for exactly the same reasons. Given it's been raining here on and off since Saturday and has been torrential + storm force winds on occasions I made the right choice! Everyone who's yet to get a score on the board should pick the next night with a half reason...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 4:34 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Woods Rat Run
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1026
Re: Woods Rat Run
I rode the seafront on the outward leg of this but avoided it on the way back, might be of help picking a way around.
https://www.strava.com/activities/2218045898
https://www.strava.com/activities/2218045898
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
It's a section of Parkhurst forest which is 395 hectares in area and the second largest forest on the Isle of Wight after Brighstone Forest - full disclosure - wiki helped with than bit :lol: It's on the 'wrong' side of the forest away from the car park, seemingly forgotten about for timber harvesti...
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 549
- Views: 47160
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
You know you're not like normal people when you think to yourself 'better get my bivi in whilst the cold weather is still here' :lol: It looks like it's going to be warm and wet again down here next week and a busy weekend schedule means a school-night bivi. I put my thermometer outside on the recyc...