Good god you people are scrawny freaks :lol: :lol: Lucky you, Tim, you don't have to buy clothes are far too wide for you, just to get sleeves that reach to your wrists and to cover your lower back! I'm also warmer at night Dave (soooooo well insulated). My life really is a win-win :lol: :lol: :lol...

Good god you people are scrawny freaks :lol: My XL is a fine. It fits but would seem to have little spare room in the shoulders or chest area for significant layers (given it's warmth that seems fine) and fits snuggly at waist (c'mon, lets be honest, gut :roll:) level. Compared to a Patagonia nanopu...

That's a bargain. Enjoy!!

Frequently - squash and TKD - at least once a week for each. Alternatively - packrafting, walking (dogs, hills, whatever), indoor rowing (great when I do it but struggle to establish a habit), kettlebells, climbing (in and out but oh so very rarely), yoga. As an exercise-induced asthmatic I always s...

A few Rab borealis windproof jackets for £40 ish on Sportshoes.com

They also have a discount code (RAB15) on th8s season's Rab stuff.

I picked up a couple of these on sale a while ago: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifesystems-Mountain-SPF50-Protection-Cream/dp/B06VVL12FL?th=1&psc=1 https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/711ZL0yxygL._AC_SX679_.jpg It's much smaller in real life (50ml) :lol: Worth bearing in mind (and IIRC) but sunscre...

yourguitarhero wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 2:17 pm ....

And, sometimes when you're out for a while the £££s are forgotten about if all the kit is working well

True dat

Are you on a private supply? If not shirley the water company is the man / woman / person for the job?

If you really want to trace it I've seen them use divining rods, easily fashioned from wire coathanger Otherwise most plant hire shops do CAT&G (for a price).

Great list of big name riders, and really good bike list. Most interesting is Isla Rowntree and her great looking custom bike: https://bikepacking.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Rowntree-2023-ht550-rigs_1-960x640.jpg Beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that. I'm wavering between :| and :YMSICK:

I'm with Bob about the Hyperlight or whatever they are now called. Stu reviewed one (not sure if it isn't the one I actually have now):

https://www.bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/ ... as-a-rest/

Good kit

And just to add to the madness:

https://www.facebook.com/679590347/vide ... 7066835348

Phuk me i only posted it for a bit of light-hearted relief and look what's happened . This place and its bloody tangential-thread-trajectories

I was just thinking Scandal too, though not sure if the latest incarnation (Mk3?) has gone all "long-low-slack". Someone with one could probably say. TBH at that budget you could do worse than watch Planet X and see what comes up in their erratic pricing schemes. There are likely to be sev...

I used to baulk at Exposure due to the cost and I didn't get the fuss about it being a single unit. Then I bought one and was, to my chagrin*, convinced. Their after-sales have been great as the odd unit has needed attention (e.g. carbon joystick came unstuck at metal / carbon joints) and, whilst us...

There's quilts (Cumulus, Enlightened Equipment, Thermarest, Sea2Summit etc) and then there's Alpkit's Cloudcover, IMO :roll: Pretty much any of the others will do you something effective. The Cloudcover is (or at least mine) was a poor size, stitched through and not all that great. I've chuntered ab...

Reading the article that does indeed seem to be part of the problem (sub standard cells, sub standard chargers). I suspect it's compounded by the high level of bike theft so these things are usually indoors and that's where charging also occurs. When it goes wrong that means fire and noxious smoke i...

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/m ... es-uk-data

Blimey

Respect with regards to the tragic incidences and some perspective needed to the other causes of fires. I was surprised how many incidences there seemed to be and growing.

De nada

Richpips wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 10:01 pm Myself and my friend Heather Dawe will be doing a talk about our cycling adventures on the 5th May in Otley.

Pay what you want, and there's a bar!

Shared it round a few of the local trail group FB pages (SingletrAction and Wetherby Bike Trails).

While it's built for speed, so says Reilly, this is very much practical and fast gravel rather than US-style, minimal aero gravel, as the Reflex can run a dropper post and dynamo lights with fully integrated cabling and has huge 55mm tyre clearance. This bit I don't understand, it's "practical...

I used one of these Sunrace extenders (cheap) instead of a Goat link (pricey) when I needed to get a shimano mech to work with a bigger cassette: https://www.merlincycles.com/sunrace-rear-derailleur-extender-link-134836.html?utm_source=PHG&utm_medium=AffiliateMarketing&utm_campaign=p...

It might not work or it might just be an incredibly smart-arse thing to say after the event :wink: Push pegging loop of guy line through a chain link, larks foot onto a peg. Should hold the peg if tension is off/on plus minimal changes to or knots in guy lines. 10/10 for the pitch in the end though ...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Fri Apr 21, 2023 8:37 am Me, I'm going paying my mortgage off this morning.

A situation I covet and envy

Gig tonight in town. In the grand scheme that's enough to be content.

They haven't managed to kill cheques yet (despite what some might think) so I suspect cash still has some life left in it.

One day I'm going to have to get my head round bitcoin because from my (uninformed) viewpoint it just seems to be an absolute con.