Sucks, doesn't it. It's always the stupid, innocuous-seeming situations too. Damaging kit is annoying too, but at least it can be replaced. Shame it doesn't grow back like skin though!

Shaff - get a dremel (cheapo ebay copy in any case) and try to grind out as much of the bolt as you can before have a go with a tap. In fact if you are careful and very patient, you might be able to get enough out to pick the threads of the bolt out without tapping - even if you can get the first b...

Funnily enough Dave, I was thinking earlier that I tend to only sleep out for three maybe four nights at a time on a trip You're already doing better than me then! Good idea :-bd So to clarify, can we use paid for accommodation during the trip? Rules as per BAM, except any accommodation is acceptab...

BAM seems to be a great motivator for getting people out the door, and often people do it as part of a bigger trip, but I've been thinking recently how much more rewarding it is to get out for at least two nights in a row. Waking up outside (or, more often, coming round from the final nap of the nig...

PS for those that haven't come across him before, he has previous for this sort of deviant behaviour... A couple of years ago (?) he raced the Enduro World Series as a privateer, bikepacking between races out of necessity. It got quite a lot of coverage, and he seems to have got quite a few sponsors...

That seems a jolly sporting thing to do - fair play. Who carried his bike on the kayak crossing though? :lol: Nobody - he strapped it onto the deck of his sea kayak... That was his plan, but because of the bad weather someone took it for him. What a cheat! :wink: How must the other riders be feelin...

Congratulations Reg :-bd Sounds like the celebration distilled all the elements of your inimitable style down into one trip :grin: the middle of Stoke… I believe from The Influencers that that's what we're all aiming for, so congrats on that :wink: This influencer? "Tunstall TikTok influencer ...

I thought this feat was deserving of attention on here: https://m.pinkbike.com/news/photo-story ... orted.html

Congratulations Reg
Sounds like the celebration distilled all the elements of your inimitable style down into one trip

RIP wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:41 pm the middle of Stoke…

I believe from The Influencers that that's what we're all aiming for, so congrats on that

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:46 am

Top marks for trying though.

I genuinely considered taking it out to the garage and doing just that, since it seems destined for the bin anyway.

Christ, that's hung around for long enough :shock: Not sure about May, got quite a few other things in the calendar, inc. Tor Divide the weekend before. Also, possibly NYM300 (haven't ruled out an extended ride either - will probably look at starting from Thirsk if that's the case though. The logist...

A new (to me) phone. Kind of relevant here becasue my old phone died in the torrential rain on the winter Jennride. I would have put it in a waterproof case, but I assumed the pocket in my new Evoc bum bag specifically for a phone would be waterproof. Apparently not. (I also had to get replacements ...

Re-reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at the mo just because I'm struggling with what I think a bike should be vs the mainstream industry take on bikes so maybe it'll produce some inspiration in how to handle the way bikes are going a similar way to cars in closing off the basic mech...

boxelder wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:16 am not even spoiled by me and Dave appearing a couple of times

we were even riding our bikes at one point
Yeah, nice work. Helped me explain to my mum what I was doing

https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod/images/jim-carey-the-grinch-1665564473.jpg Despite the choice of "rave" or "sexual deviant", I'm genuinely pleased to see they're making Outdry stuff again because I thought they'd binned it. I really want some of the trousers, but £180 is a ...

I'm afraid the plants and animals will have to go How do you see that working out for your children and grandchildren? This has been taken out of context. If you read the whole paragraph it should be clear that I'm referring to the plants and animals that will be displaced by the wind farms not eve...

Stewart quotes from 'A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush' by Eric Newby in that book, which I highly recommend - not just an insight in Afghanistan but also the world in the 1950's. Another classic of travel writing. I have it somewhere - another one I've read, know I enjoyed, but couldn't tell you a si...

Just started two books I picked up from the library: Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the dark . Thanks for the recommendation faustus. I'm only one chapter in, but already hooked. The Curtain and The Wall: A modern journey along Europe's cold war border by Timothy Phillips, which I found by coincidence on ...

Itchynuts wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:21 pm I'm afraid the plants and animals will have to go

How do you see that working out for your children and grandchildren?

I need to think how i'm going to process pictures, so any insight into how others use their camera photos would also be useful. I only have a work laptop now, which I can't plug anything into and I don't own, and it has many admin restrictions in place. I don't enjoy 'processing' photos very much a...

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:26 pm It amuses me that people frequently denigrate 'environmental' initiatives. What? You don't want better air and water quality? More pleasant living spaces? Streets where kids can play like we used to? etc etc.

Brings to mind:

I love how this thread is full of reasoned argument and polite disagreement between people with wildly different views... Except one person who compared it to the other place and flounced out oh the irony

Looks like a great, practical bike, nice

Looks great!

I've not got a rotary cutter, but may well try one - the cutting out bit takes a lot more time than you think.