Removed the things that sold yesterday. Open to offers on these. Cheers. Large Restrap Rando rack bag Used a few times for shopping (and one ill-fated ride with my dog), so in near perfect condition with all the bits and bobs. £100 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51878918114_0c0f289f21_z.jpg Bla...

I meant to drop this in last week but didn't and have just, only, just managed to come to terms with England's loss to Scotland. Urgh. Anyhoo, my nextest bestest favouritest team Wales kick off against them in a little bit and I do think "we" will struggle, despite Scotland poor history wi...

Dave, the Summit To Eat scrambled eggs n cheese is edible if you have mastered your gag reflex. I usually squirt on a sachet of tomato or chilli sauce. Not the cheapest brekkie but a pretty good option to oats or muesli. Way too much sugar and salt in it but once every month will probably not kill y...

This morning I gave it a proper wash after a mud fest ride yesterday and set to indexing the SRAM GX 1x12 which was shitting me all day. Ghost shifts all over the place which made the techie stuff extra exciting. I just can't get it right. Either it shifts nice going up the cassette, but won't shift...

Escape Goat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 05, 2022 5:27 pm Can I please have the dangler too? I didn't notice this was available when I bought the bag.

Noooooooooo .... don't you dare sell that to Allen. He'll only sell it to me in a month anyway. Cut out the middle man and let me have it.

I've a long and chequered motorcycle career and must have owned 50 or 60 over the years, but the only new motorcycle I ever wheeled out of a showroom was a Ténéré in 1986. I was writing a motorbike column for a Melbourne paper back then and had tested one for a couple of weeks and just had to have o...

I really like my MSR Elixir 2. It's a bulky thing so not for bikepacking. Well, I've used it a few times but carried it in a backpack for a few miles to local spots. Anyway, the one person version is a very similar design and should be as easy easy to put up and as weather proof.

I think the actual genuine real new bits are pretty good, though I will look more closely at riders now being permitted to go around cars that are turning left on the outside thing and I saw somewhere there is a change to the roundabout rule ... hmm. For me the most interesting aspect of the debate ...

https://i.postimg.cc/50MsgmZn/20220119-115357.jpg Mora hammock from Alpkit - not sure it'll get much use, and as we only have 1 small tree in the garden, may be difficult to try it out at home. As ever my defence will be that "it was in the January sale" for pity's sake! Nice at that pric...

.looking at their steel fork that will probably rust from the inside out before finally crumbling into a pile of brown dust I waxoyled mine :mrgreen: This used to be a thing, proofing your steel frame with motor fogging oil. The last time for me was a Thorn Audax 853 nearly 20 years ago. Does anyon...

Have you had a look at the DD Hammocks XL pyramid? They do a one person inner as well. £175 and about 1.2kg together.

https://www.ddhammocks.com/product/xl_p ... rom_cat=20

https://www.ddhammocks.com/product/xl_p ... rom_cat=20

Yep what Dave says. I've done it a few times and it's a good day out. Great fun at the start and the route is dead easy with only one real hill which is not, you know, like a Welsh hill. But ... there is always a but. The last time I did it they stopped allowing you to come back on the train with yo...

I'm determined that this year I will make it! Mainly due to the fact that almost all of my bikepacking to date has been solo, and I'm fed up of being a miserable bastard. No way Dave. That just will NOT DO. I'm hoping to get to the WRT again this year and hopefully not break my own record for what ...

thenorthwind wrote: ↑Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:27 pm Very cute!
Are you going to have to change your username now?

My daughter suggested I should start to refer to myself as "Timmy Two Dogs" ... I am seriously considering it.

Say hello to Pep. She's a Yorkshire terrier cross. 8 weeks old and brought home today as a mate for our 10 year old spaniel cross and, let's face it, a nod to the fact that my kids don't need me much anymore and my parenting instincts need another outlet. Apparently. https://live.staticflickr.com/65...

This from Haibike ticks a lot of boxes. Not cheap, though not too bad by top end e-MTB standards, and you could add a set of 29er or 27.5+ wheels if you felt like it.

https://www.haibike.com/at/en/ebikes/em ... d=45188150

It's Hodgemoor Woods near Seer Green looking east from the car park.*

* No ... no it isn't. Sigh.

We really dodged a bullet coming back when we did, it's been all over the news today that the French have stopped Brits returning to their homes by transiting through France, people were turned back on Tuesday. Incredible, isn't it? Nothing to do with public health. Everything to do with politics. ...

For the sake of balance, I bought an OnOne Free Ranger while back in the UK last week. It was already discounted by £200 and as my login includes my address in Spain, they automatically took off a further £250 in vat. I asked to collect it as I was in Sheffield so they even knocked off £36 delivery...

pistonbroke wrote: ↑Mon Dec 27, 2021 11:33 pm

I ran out of patches one day after riding about a couple of miles of bridal path

That confetti can be bloody sharp

That's one of my regular typos. I can get pretty messy with they're their there too.

I took my OOF out this morning, newly fitted with a Lauf fork (thanks again Allen) and with 3.8 Surly Nates on new wheels. It was cold, wet, windy and deeply muddy and not a lot of fun, but I really wanted to check out the rebuild and play with tyre pressures. I started out with 10psi in both front ...

I did have a mild panic the other day riding down a lane where I suddenly saw the gorse hedge had been recently flailed, so I had a very wary few hundred metres with thoughts of maybe I should try tubeless. Now living back in the land of flailed hawthorn and gorse I may have to bite the bullet :rol...

Ooooh they look nice. Too small for me at size 47 but I'm gonna take a look at them as the 5-10s Ton sold me on here about 2 years ago are toast.

Just read through all the replies. Utter utter utter clusterfark

Duncan, I hope you get to where you need to go, and can be with the people you need to be with.

Good luck chap
Tim

Pistonbloke ... is it Duncan? ... that sucks. Feel for you but TBH I'd ignore it and go ahead with your plans. I'm normally a very compliant little tax payer but I'm over it now. My daughter tested positive yesterday, and today is her 17th birthday. We had to cancel a party with her mates, but I sti...