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- Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: UK stamps for overseas users
- Replies: 4
- Views: 401
Re: UK stamps for overseas users
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How much grief can I expect?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 2367
Re: How much grief can I expect?
These days no manufacturer can afford to make a truly "bad" vehicle. You might get a lemon but it's unlikely. The local post office use Peugeot Partner vans (basically the same vehicle as the Citroen Berlingo and the Vauxhall Combo) so presumably they are reasonably reliable. We are on our...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: UK stamps for overseas users
- Replies: 4
- Views: 401
Re: UK stamps for overseas users
Could it not just be done on-line Bob? Person in France buys postage for UK to France on-line, prints label and attaches it to envelope or whatever. Packages envelope and posts that from France to the UK. You put 500g of crack into envelope and drop it off at the post office. Sorry if I misundersta...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: UK stamps for overseas users
- Replies: 4
- Views: 401
UK stamps for overseas users
A bit of an odd one and my google-fu seems to be lacking... Is it possible for someone living outside the UK to purchase stamps that can be used here to send an item back to them? Specifically the return envelope should arrive here with the postage already affixed so no "here's €2 for postage&q...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 7:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Orange MTB Bikes going into administration
- Replies: 5
- Views: 612
Re: Orange MTB Bikes going into administration
Sad news. About 20 years ago I had an EVO4 hardtail, a nice responsive bike.
Doesn't appear to be an isolated case - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-67902540 - job losses at Raleigh.
Doesn't appear to be an isolated case - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-n ... e-67902540 - job losses at Raleigh.
- Thu Jan 04, 2024 9:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sleep system configurations
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1007
Re: Sleep system configurations
Looking at the specs for the Jungle Bag it's rated at 7C comfort/ 2C limit. That's slightly better than a quilt like the Cumulus 150 (9C/4C) which I find is fine for UK summer usage but it's two and a half times the weight. (The next heavier Cumulus quilt, the 250, is rated at 4C/0C and is still onl...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
- Replies: 52
- Views: 2795
Re: Happy New Year, and plans for 2024
And a Bob Graham in June Ace! It's probably 5 years since my BG and it's still the best day Ive ever had. I proposed to my good lady on the steps of the Moot Hall after running leg 5 together. Thankfully she said yes, although she had provided all the road support as well as running the final leg, ...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 12:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fitting tight tyres
- Replies: 15
- Views: 970
Re: Fitting tight tyres
Well s##t in a bag and punch it! It worked! I tried the tips above and the one that I think made the difference was starting opposite the valve hole. Overall the tyres are still a very snug fit, but not ridiculously so. Can anyone explain why this technique works ? Isn't the rim structure the same ...
- Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Winter Event entries now open.
- Replies: 67
- Views: 15925
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 3:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Anyone use a foam mat instead of a air one
- Replies: 6
- Views: 674
Re: Anyone use a foam mat instead of a air one
Pretty common for winter fat bike racing where you would be sleeping on snow (which is a surprisingly good insulator) - essentially zero setup time plus you don't run the risk of puncturing your mat on hidden cut sapling stumps. The downside is that they are bulky - most either have a mat that folds...
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 10:51 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Which Exposure light?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1597
Re: Which Exposure light?
Road and off-road beam patterns are quite different but a bar mounted light with a road pattern and a helmet mounted light to supplement it for off-road use would work. Exposure ain’t cheap but you get what you pay for. I think they still use the mini jack style socket as they are more water resista...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 11:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Anyone ride exclusively singlespeed?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1018
Re: Anyine ride exclusively singlespeed?
Two names spring to mind: Javi Singlespeed George I dabble in it and most plus/minus points are covered by the above posts. I find short sharp hills not to be too bad, it's the long low(ish) angled ones that are hard work. On road I could ride hills that had a single black arrow on the map but had t...
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:58 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: R4pha500
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4211
Re: R4pha500
Thanks Dave. I always run it slightly nose down. One of Mike Hall vids explaining how he sets up and keeps nose down. It suits Pogacar as well I feel it forces more weight onto the arms. But each to their own There was an article about saddle angle in, I think, The Guardian where British Cycling ha...
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 10:52 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 399933
Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
We spotted some nacreous clouds from the house yesterday (along with many others around the country). Cath got a good shot but I was slightly too late- still showed the formation but not as well.
Still not spotted any noctilucent clouds, possibly the rarest formation to be seen.
Still not spotted any noctilucent clouds, possibly the rarest formation to be seen.
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 12:34 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend me a cordless combi drill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1031
Re: Recommend me a cordless combi drill
I've got a mix for my job as a "boucher en bois". My main brand is Makita with sprinkling of Hikoki(Hitachi) and Dewalt. All have some outstanding tools and all have some garbage. The Makita nail guns are utter tosh, I hate the loudness of the paslode as well as the gas needed but like th...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 11:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What was the problem with 29+
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1383
Re: What was the problem with 29+
Following up on some of the points made about larger volume tyres... I grabbed a set of the Alpkit 27.5+ wheels and did some testing on a hilly loop in the Dales comparing them to the 29" wheels I normally use. I wore a HRM with that data displayed on the Garmin so I was hopefully putting in th...
- Tue Dec 19, 2023 10:32 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Recommend me a cordless combi drill
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1031
Re: Recommend me a cordless combi drill
My usual recommendation/rant is that unless you are relying on the tools for your full-time job then the in-house brands from the likes of B&Q are good enough. I've a B&Q Performance Power circular saw, got it for a small project and now it might get an hour's use each year. Simply no point ...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:19 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bin There Dun That
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2032
Re: Bin There Dun That
Cath and I did most of that route going the other way around a year or two ago. The Trout Beck BW was mostly rideable going up the way so apart from the washed out bits (I recognise the bit in the picture) it shouldn’t be too bad. The first time I went up GDF it was a pea souper and sleeting and sno...
- Thu Dec 14, 2023 10:13 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: East Devon Trail
- Replies: 13
- Views: 664
Re: East Devon Trail
Not specific to Devon or even the East Devon Trail but generally... Arrive late and leave early. Pick somewhere that you can't see any house lights - if you can't see them then it's less likely that they can see you. Don't flash your lights around, i.e. don't draw attention to yourself. The countrys...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 1:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 531192
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Current air quality of S Dales and Westmoreland = blue? Deep blue! Contact garage- they say I have to get it to them. Err how? My service agreement has breakdown cover so the garage texts me their number. Except it’s the helpline not the breakdown line. “Text me the right number or transfer me“ - “...
- Wed Dec 13, 2023 10:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 531192
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 4:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 531192
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Cue Gary Larsen...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 2:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 531192
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Ah, the "You will obey" look :lol: Be prepared for several months of him getting into everything as he learns about his new home. Once he's got the lay of the land he'll stop then it's just him finding the nicest, most secure places for him to sleep - tops of cupboards, that sort of thing....
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 1:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4004
- Views: 531192
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Finally got my van back :-bd Jeez - you could have read a Tolstoy novel in the time it's taken! Being a Euro 6 compliant diesel vehicle it has an Ad-blue system. That went mammaries up in March and was replaced by the garage (a national dealership) under the extended warranty/service agreement that ...
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 10:54 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 12842
Re: Bikepacking / ITT specific coaching.
Physical training is well (but not completely) understood - push your body, recover, rinse and repeat. You can do the same basic things year in year out but eventually you'll suffer the law of diminishing returns and hit a plateau. It's why you see headlines like "Tennis player X has parted wit...