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- Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:40 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Winter Jennride
- Replies: 59
- Views: 7799
Re: Winter Jennride
oh, who am I kidding: Don't forget your mudguards! Yellow warning for rain from the Met Office At least it's not a warning of yellow rain Looks like the heavier rain will be in the evening/night and then ease off again for Sunday. It's very mild though, so lighter bag and less warm clothing has mad...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
- Replies: 88
- Views: 5660
Re: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
Galloway and the Borders have a long history of rally sport - I'm guessing near Craic/Eskdalemuir?
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1790
Re: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
Well reading this has changed our holiday plans. The 5 of us are now getting the ferry to Amsterdam, on bikes, and doing a leisurely 250Km loop using eco rated hostels and BnB's. We'll buy local etc and hope the kids don't hate it too much :lol: It was always an option to be honest, but this was a t...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 44422
Re: What are you reading now?
Currently Wifedom ... about Orwell's invisible wife Eileen .. How was it? Assassinatory. Orwell was patently a complex man with significant issues, and I for one don't think he was without massive flaws in his character and behaviour towards women. But Funder does a cracking job of highlighting the...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:44 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 44422
Re: What are you reading now?
Currently Wifedom ... about Orwell's invisible wife Eileen .. How was it? 'The Lighthouse of Stalingrad' by Iain MacGregor- a fairly concise and readable account of the Battle for the city, based on many witness accounts and released war records. The numbers are mind boggling and it lays bare the m...
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Trailmech hubs
- Replies: 15
- Views: 409
Re: Trailmech hubs
No, but a mate has a coupleof pairs from Silt wheels and they've impressed, including a crash replacement rim.
https://siltmtb.com/products/xc-carbon-29-1-272g
https://siltmtb.com/products/xc-carbon-29-1-272g
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 820
Re: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
Some Joy Division oven gloves?
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 6:01 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Random cheap magnets
- Replies: 3
- Views: 218
Re: Random cheap magnets
Not very random thenneed 64 15mm by 4.5mm neodymium magnets
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:46 am
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7636
Re: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
Tuesday evening, Ford 6 - River Petteril, Southwaite "30 feet wide and 3 feet deep" (which only confirms my suspicions that Shaf is trying to facilitate my 'accidental' death by drowning.......) I rest my case https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53513930655_ae4eddaf27_m.jpg 1000009254-01 b...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7636
Re: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
I'd planned to go for this Saturday, when the sun was out a bit, but a last minute announcement of family and social engagements scuppered it, so Sunday was my last chance for February. I couldn't fit in an overnighter, so was travelling light. Shaf (Redefined_cycles) had sent me 7 locations, all fo...
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1543
- Views: 255428
Re: What you done t' your bike today
Are you not then losing some of the benefits - adding weight and losing 'suppleness'?fatbikephil wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 3:53 pm Oddly I found none tubeless WTB's don't weep sealant out the sidewalls and tubeless ones do... Split tube is a good way of making none tubeless tyres work tubeless.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1615
Re: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
I dipped in and out of it, and have now lost/lent out my copy. As a massive Iain Banks fan, it felt like it was under edited, and that he was given free reign.Also reading Raw Spirit by Iain Banks, great fun though I confess to skipping the ample petrolhead discursions.
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 9:43 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1615
Re: A wee whisky appreciation thread.
Sainsbury have Laphroaig Oak Select for £26 (Nectar price). Not sure it's nectar, but it's like a smooth, flowy, trail centre descent of an Islay malt.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:27 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Winter Jennride
- Replies: 59
- Views: 7799
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Rollers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 221
Re: Rollers
Oh, those rollers.
I was going to gently suggest that you probably didn't have enough hair.
I was going to gently suggest that you probably didn't have enough hair.
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:36 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Winter Jennride
- Replies: 59
- Views: 7799
Re: Winter Jennride
Not sure I'm welcoming this mid range forecast: Bitter weather conditions will spread from the north of Scotland to the south of England, with 10cm of snowfall per hour forecast for Saturday, February 10. The Met Office also suggests snowfall during this period in its long-range forecast, saying the...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Flttingford bothy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 617
Re: Flttingford bothy
There was a low level signpost to it off the fireroad when I was last there 3 or 4 years ago. EDIT: as shown in pic in whitestone's BAM write up. The immediate area had been clear felled, so can't see it will have changed much since. I approached very laboriously along the (increasingly non-existent...
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:22 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Cancelled,: South West Lakes Spring Break, 23-24 March 2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 696
Re: South West Lakes Spring Break, 23-24 March 2024
Looks like I'm working this weekend now, and don't have an alternative free. I'll confirm when I know for certain.
EDIT: confirmed that I'm on work related training that weekend, so no go for me.
EDIT: confirmed that I'm on work related training that weekend, so no go for me.
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you reading now?
- Replies: 404
- Views: 44422
Re: What are you reading now?
'The Sea Kingdoms - The history of Celtic Britain and Ireland' by Alistair Moffat.
I always felt something linked Cumbrians, Wales, Gallovidians and the Cornish. Some enlightening stuff about Wales and Hen Ogledd (not the band). Feeding my 'I don't really feel English' sentiments quite nicely.
I always felt something linked Cumbrians, Wales, Gallovidians and the Cornish. Some enlightening stuff about Wales and Hen Ogledd (not the band). Feeding my 'I don't really feel English' sentiments quite nicely.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4931
- Views: 1209675
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Pair of Clarks M3 brakes with rotors (160mm) for £35
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/p/c ... -brake-set
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/p/c ... -brake-set
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7636
Re: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
168Km and gravel bike for me I reckon. Involves fords though, so water levels will need to drop to avoid some extreme pack raft type shenanigans.
Cheers Shaf
Cheers Shaf
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:45 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Winter Jennride
- Replies: 59
- Views: 7799
Re: Winter Jennride
makes sense. Booked
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 11:32 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7636
Re: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
Start Cockermouth. Not too much above 400m. Off road, road, whatever. Don't go too large - I'd forgotten I'm doing winter Jennride, but will try to shoehorn this in.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
- Replies: 50
- Views: 7636
Re: Not Another Winter Event (approx Feb, 2024)
Messaged you Shaf.
All (nearly) rideable on 25mm slicks. Shorter than you suggested (depending on route choice). 8 points sound OK? Looking back over previous threads, one suggests 10 and another 6.lets see how kind he is
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you drinking now?
- Replies: 704
- Views: 71193
Re: What are you drinking now?
Timmy Taylor's? Nice. It's a 'happy memory' beer from my youth, along with Theakston's XB and Coniston Bluebird.