Bikehike features 'reverse route' 'cut to end' and 'merge' all making sense now as tools to edit the routes, success.

Ian, again you show how I obviously spend more time finding tracks than looking for the options in the tracking software.. Thanks. Time saved there. Is it a more recent feature? I was told bikehike didn't do route linking a couple of years ago. Probably by someone as good at finding obvious (now) fe...

A question for the GPS file editors here, I have a number of 50-100 mile sections of GPX Track file that I want to join, what's the best way to do that? I use bikehike to create the routes and lengthen them or do minor re-works but doesn't seem to be a joining tool on there. Need a site that can upl...

I got some 'sniper' gloves off ebay, trigger/brake finger is seperate from the other 3, buffalo-type pile+cotton outer and I waxed them. Warm when wet, light/cheap, work well since I gave up wanting to keep dry hands, so few WP gloves are any good at keeping my hands warm. Have a look for hunter/sho...

I saw Steve Abrahams out riding locally in Jan/Feb last year during his attempt. Chucking it down that day, as it was the next few days. Hat off to him, made me realise just how hard it would be, shame his attempt was disrupted by the accident. Impressive in many ways, a little odd or abstract in ot...

Sturmy 2s looks good. I tried one of the SRAM auto 2-speed hubs and really liked it, tricky to get the change speed / centrifuge right with terrain and wheelsize but if there was a version with a screw-adjust for that aspect I'd have one tomorrow. I always come back to liking the simplicity of SS bu...

I always wondered about a double-dingle for touring, the sort where you have all the time you need and replacing meachs etc is a faff, like across Mongolia and China, that sort of thing. There's no 1 ideal ratio, but there could be 2 ratios that cover most of it so you're only changing it based on t...

I'm so used to looking at that bike that I didn't see how odd it looks from that angle..

Last year .. No idea of my distances, too many bikes and not that organised with stats tbh. Had some good rides that I did record, going over the 200 mile daily marker during a multi-day road tour was probably the only one of note. Not for the distance, more for the fact I seem to have cracked my ro...

Bag support, just the Wildcat harness and a drybag lined with some foam mat on my bike in the pic.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8759/17096456991_47d922853a.jpg DSCN9440 by james*o , on Flickr Long cables and a compact 8L or well-cinched down 13L bag here. But different shifters. Try a V-brake noodle as a cable diverter, it may do the trick. You'll need some slack in the cables as they move or ...

Garmin 800 has been great for me, as someone resistant to non-essential tech on a bike. Just use it as a drag-drop hard drive / SD card reader and load routes created in bikehike etc or downloaded GPX files. Garmin Connect seems pretty pointelss for my uses. I expect the same general use stuff count...

Cheers FLV ..

My steel Jones. Won't be changing that any time soon. Wouldn't mind some 40mm syntace rims or something similar instead of the p35s but aside from that the rest is a mix of reliable and trashable (9s XT) or buy once only kit (king bb, ti loops and eriksen post) that's just about perfect. That and th...

for years I have thought that Georgia would be a great place to explore on a mtb

The EVA Air flight path from Taiwan to London goes over that area. Stunning.. I've spent hours on end just looking out of the plane window, with loose thoughts of riding home from a factory trip one day.

I'm not massively envious of Gairy's local spot at all, no.

Good find s.r.
I fitted some original grab-on mtb grips to a bike recently and had forgotten how good they are. I use photomount to fix foam grips and bar tape but might give those a go next.
Jack, if you search for 'jones bikes wrapping an h-bar pdf' a useful guide comes up from Jeff's blog.

Not one for riding with people ;) Neither am I generally - don't worry, you'll not see many riders after mid-day on day 2 if you don't want to ride with them. Even less so if you're on sub-20 day pace. It can be very much a solo experience, more than I expected and almost excessively so if you ride...

Trail junction

Ok it says up there proper pros do need base miles .. Rtfm : )

Re base miles or not, I guess that depends on the time you have. For pros with good base already perhaps not needed, no idea. I find it does a lot for my ability to just get on with the miles, plenty of long steady rides in winter mean mentally 100 miles is much smaller job later in the year. Gets y...

You can build up to long days by being inspired to ride a long way in certain places in your own way simply because you want to. The endurance or ability for anything more pace-focussed will follow, it will get you through a more speedy method of riding if you want to do that. As others have said it...

Really like that headtorch trace on the night-bouldering pic SSG .. great pic

^ sounds like a useful book, I'll look it up. Home made stodgy stuff of the right content is great. The high fat stomach plug thing was something I read about on Matt Hart's / Torq Fitness website. The sugary drink effect is something remembered from GCSE Biology : ) None of it was much use in the S...

If you're riding long enough, and hard enough, it really doesn't matter what goes in once it goes in and stays down. Really, it doesn't. It's the 'once it goes in and stays down' bit that makes the difference to me. I've got an unfussy stomach and I'd agree that after a while it's simply about calo...