Thanks for suggestions and offers. I found a length of 15mm metal pipe, cut it to size and held in place with the QRs. Works a treat.

Cheers

About Sixty thousand engineering and manufacturing apprenticeships annually so it's not all bad news. Genuine question - are they 'proper' apprenticeships where you learn the job hands on from the skilled and experienced or just going to college for a couple of afternoons? My son is doing one: mech...

A friend is off to Austria in two weeks for a lengthy tour and needs two of those spacer things you whack in the forks and the rear drop outs to stop them getting crushed on the plane. She's on a Genesis touring bike and I am dead sure the fork spacing is 100mm and the rear drop outs are 135mm. They...

Thermarest Prolite Plus Had this thing for 14 years, probably put 250 nights' sleeping on it. Still going strong. Not the lightest or smallest, but comfortable. I've got two of these: a big long one for 20 years and a little short one for 25. They're chunky and heavy but completely reliable and giv...

Stormin Norman meths stove and windshield/pot holder. I've got two of these: one for a 650ml mug for grand adventures and another for a 400ml for a simple brew. It works like a Calderra cone but is in two parts so fits into the cup/mug together with the little meths stove, lighter and a silicone li...

Apols if this has already been done, but it's new to me: a fan forced camping stove. And its tiny. It's not for me as I'm calm and relaxed kinda meths stove user, plus sometimes like to use my Honey Stove, but I'm quite taken by this and the obvious speed at which it generates usable flame and heat....

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 2:25 pm Jacob Rees-Mogg.

Oh yes ... oh yes ... a more vile stick insect of a Victorian undertaker has never walked the earth.

An Enlightened Equipment Revelation 850 quilt in long/wide from Valley and Peak and thank you Stu for the link last week. Compared with my six-year-old Cumulus Taiga it is absolutely huge but largely the same weight and pack size. The Taiga has been fine when cocooned in a hammock but a total mess f...

Cheers Bob but Nobby has me sorted.

Speaking of quilts, I believe that Valley and Peak are now stocking Enlightened. https://valleyandpeak.co.uk/collections/enlightened-equipment Oh you bugger ... I've never really fit my regular sized Cumulus quilt so a quick Tim Peak at that link shows the long wide versions available in the colour...

I was looking into this recently and was put off by the size and cost of new ones, but the M-Wave and DoggyRide Mini offerings are cheaper and smaller. For the one linked below guess you would have to buy a trailer hitch in the third link. https://hollandbikeshop.com/en-gb/bicycle-trailers/m-wave-bi...

Reg is there a way I can send you up a long steep hill, take three left turns and back up the same long steep hill? Failing that, perhaps you can do a figure 8 and pass through the same cross roads 4 times? Does that sound at all familiar?

Afternoon all, I've been getting back on the cheap spin bike I bought in the 2020 lock down and would like some SPDs for it. Anyone have a set they can part with? Any condition considered as long as I can clip in to at least one side. Cheers, Tim.

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Lovely work. Have you thought about going a bit Rambo on one edge to get through roots? I need a trowel upgrade after an experience last year when I couldn't get a decent cat hole done because the ground was a spider web of carbon fibre roots. I poo'ed anyway and covered it with leaves. Sorry childr...

If it’s a folder, why not a self-charging titanium e-folder? https://en.vello.bike/ They can’t match that new Ti Brompton in terms of weight but 14kg for a folding ebike is pretty good and the fold on them is IMO even better than Brommies. Heresy I know but if I’m ever get my tax return through I th...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!

Gutted for you mate. I know how much of yourself you’ve put into that bike and how much you’ve got out of it.

I've been through three sets of front pads on my Hope Tech 3s and one set on the rear in about three years and they've never needed bleeding. Great brakes. I'll get another set once the Avids on my Fatty finally give up the ghost.

Oh, by the Gentle Breath of the Baby Jebuz, my wild flower patch is full of triffids .... aaaaaaaaargh.

Not really. Sunflowers. But weird ones.

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 11:29 am I'd go 56cm

Me too. You can make a small bike bigger (to a limited extent) with a longer stem and lay back seat post, but you cant make a bike that is too big smaller, unless it comes with a long term, which it wont.

Very, very late into this thread this year but prompted to stop lurking today as I hit a milestone that I am quite pleased about. I've been putting on weight for about five years and not really been bothered. But there was a photo of me with my kids on New Years Eve that had me realise how far I'd l...

Meh ... I'm not sharing my favourite routes or bivvy spots with anyone other than the lovely beautiful people I ride with. And I think I am correct on this, but the routes you share have to be "legal" which to my mind means you must not share routes that include footpaths etc. In the Chilt...

Interesting... For me, the main reason for using the accessory bar is to provide a secondary point of stability, and to help protect the cables/headtube. If you are hanging the bag from the accessory bar, how does that work with your cables/headtube? That's how I'm going to use mine (which I've now...

Way too many roads here that are not die straight. I mean, what did the Romans ever do for us than give us completely straight roads. They were good, but rank amateurs compared with the road builders in Aussie in the 1940s and 50s. Witness, the Eyre Highway and the 90 mile straight. It's not the lon...

I've never used a Rohloff but it's an itch that needs scratching. Tony, what is the hub size? I'm thinking of whether it would fit by Brother Cycles Big Bro. Need it to be 29er and fit a non-boost 142mm bolt through rear hub. Other Rohloff experts on here, please do opine. Does it need an EBB? I've ...