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- Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:24 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3962
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- Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:23 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3962
- Views: 497735
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Tomorrow will be a lot cheerier than it might have been. Emergency op to fix a torn retina yesterday, after a previous attempt with lasers two weeks ago. This time they used cryotherapy - freezing with liquid nitrogen. Scary stuff. Only a local anaesthetic. I don't think they actually pop your eyeb...
- Mon Dec 11, 2023 10:19 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
- Replies: 11
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Re: Global Bike Day (As I dont have a fat bike) Short Video
Thanks for a beautiful video. I don’t know how you do it - have you a Time Machine ? It must take hours to set up the shots - I’m thinking, stop, set up the camera, ride back the trail a bit, turn around and ride past the camera, then stop and retrieve the camera. Not to mention the drone video. And...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:29 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 196917
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
A brilliant effort there, Reg & MP, though I wonder how you reconciled all the extra weight given what a weight weenie you are. You have eclipsed my steak'n'chips from my WRT this year by a long shot. :-bd ….And yes obviously one has to have a f*** (now then now then) at Crimbo, but equally obvi...
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: My winter event - Freedom Ride for Dr Aafia Siddiqui
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6406
Re: My winter event - Freedom Ride for Dr Aafia Siddiqui
Oh Lordy! What an introduction to bikepacking for poor Nasir. He’ll probably never speak to you again, poor thing…
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 8:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Let's have a photo comp. VOTE NOW
- Replies: 43
- Views: 29085
Re: Let's have a photo comp;.
From this morning…
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 2:33 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
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Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Last BaM for 2023. Coinciding with Global Fatbike Day. I'd wanted to make more of an effort, but I was working nights last night and didn't get out of bed early enough, so the Fatty was hastily loaded and I set off mid-afternoon to bivvy in a spot I've had in my sights for a good while. Arrived afte...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
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Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
The original plan was an open sided barn two and a half hours away. While I actually managed to sleep last night, it was drug induced, and I think another night of that might be a good idea. I've never bivvied in the same location twice, but there is a local open sided barn, only a few KM away, tha...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 196917
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
BaM for November. There was a frosty layer on the car as I left home at around seven o’clock, bound for a place I’d bivvied in my first year of BaM. Twelve miles of lanes later, I pitched my hammock on Larkton Hill, and found I’d forgotten to pack my tarp. Again! A dry night was forecast so it seeme...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3962
- Views: 497735
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Actually, Lu, one of the advantages of these temperatures is you could do a re-enactment of the famous 'watertrough' bivvy and be guaranteed not to get an accidental dunking because it would be frozen! There’s a thought. Hmm. I think I'd need better insulation to prevent me from melting a hole unde...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 2:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3962
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
There was a bit of ice on the puddles, yes, but only -1 on our wall thermometer in the garden when I got home. I was too warm, with an Alpkit cloud cover inside my Cumulus 350 and UK hammocks underquilt. I had to uncover in the night.
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 1:46 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3962
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
...and you're a bit early for December? On yeah, so it is. Today's even cheerier then, because theres still another four weeks 'til Christmas. Have a picture from my bed… https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHdWiLdFspQK48KyhANB_IQI007j5HZnLvgvw9ddAIehK7r91L4KBCMJuE93gi23YOe9jmpLsOXZFntj0kiWUIF...
- Fri Nov 24, 2023 10:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3962
- Views: 497735
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Cheery coz I'm in my hammock BaM-ing for December. I've still got a couple of slurps of Captain Morgans and I can go to sleep looking at the stars through the trees. Less cheery because I can see the stars, because I've forgotten my tarp again. Doh!
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Coming now ... only 2 days left.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6369
Re: Coming now ...
OT, sort of, but my dream T is a Zombie Bear, with more visible graphics (WRT 2020?) in bamboo.
Sorry to butt in.
Sorry to butt in.
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 1:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: I seem to have lost my cursor...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2125
Re: I seem to have lost my cursor...
Can't help you, sorry, I'm too old to manage technology. Haven't you got a 5-10 year old grandchild to do it? They're the experts.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 11:52 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 196917
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
October BaM. Just Made it. As it's Halloween, where else but a churchyard. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHc1nArkbTpEPqyVs-AwhQ2-MyIqa1f8GGwTSu8rYjGtO031gzjuHM8HuBQt5KnTfevZPaxZPsUfEEPyOBNJop8Pz9ASLgP5lN844zN4LP-Fn1k8I08=w1920-h1080 https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHfc_YGgYItHICL...
- Mon Oct 30, 2023 4:45 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 670
- Views: 135776
Re: Wildlife
He’s a big 'un… :shock: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHezZRn5T_anEDl1X0j1iK9XgC5ej8ZYKXdIkK7oTmPDXox4sM6aH6l3hnjOCq8X4Tpo_BM3fZKAaeYVljld0Foi3_oYrqKyl9u8uxaUkS7V0HuHAeZe=w720-h480 You’d know if this Spanish bad boy was on yer face in the night. The SAK is for scale and it’s not one of th...
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:40 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Breakfast with a view.
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10940
Re: Breakfast with a view.
I’ve heated crumpets in a (dry) frying pan, which, when you think about it is how crumpets are made. Funnily enough, I’ve just been looking at Trangia non-stick frying pans, though for frying sausages, not crumpets. But, what a good idea.
- Sat Oct 28, 2023 9:06 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 196917
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Cutting it very fine this month. Was going to go out this weekend but had (well didn’t have to, but you know how it is?) work so it’ll have to be a Halloween bivvy on Tuesday, come hell or high water. Photos probably follow in November.
- Wed Oct 25, 2023 7:02 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
- Views: 617691
Re: Todays ride
A quick final pint in a Stoke back-street boozer to discuss and mull over our rides, then it was back on the train to Milton Keynes. 'Reg' I always think that a “de-brief” at the end of a trip is, while not a highlight, a very pleasant way to round off the occasion. And… Some nice nostalgic picture...
- Mon Oct 23, 2023 8:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: BB200 - a few thoughts.
- Replies: 82
- Views: 13888
Re: BB200 - a few thoughts.
You don’t have to be non-inclusive for people to feel excluded. Let me explain. Many years ago, when I was still riding my motorbike, (1957 BSA C12) I went a few times to a local-ish BSA Owners Club. They were definitely not non-inclusive, but I never really felt that I could fit in. They were commi...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 670
- Views: 135776
Re: Wildlife
A Spanish deer.. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHdiE7JJzlHnr2W6nsZ5NcNdbT5O-SPEaf46mWsHuS6Id9CIek8FZiLfIQdudYfXcyyNERaBMQdUuhwv8wMrMaRz2IHoN8Xu_A9Kue52zhHGWl6OOT0=w640-h480 The only wildlife shot I got because they were all too quick. I saw a few, including a trio including a big horny st...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 8:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 670
- Views: 135776
Re: Wildlife
Good luck to him! Good luck to him indeed. “Nature Tax” my daughter calls it. "Last month". You back now then Lu? I've lost track. I’m back. Flew back in on 11th Oct. 'T was a long Ride (740 miles - 19 days riding) and made longer by my losing my down hoodie and cycling back 26 miles each...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 6:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 670
- Views: 135776
Re: Wildlife
A Mouse… https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/ADCreHe74QRo8ncpcX4e1TDHqACSbLpMCxCndT13jmPdq2Wd0QEeS9PvY7WAGWOYRgSlhKSOU0euw0qlXR3rjtRtil6WIElhjP1ZSLoPPc3X9BwA4nluGYUU=w640-h480 This little feller woke me at 02:30 on one of my Spanish bivvies last month. He’d found a packet of biscuits that I’d left ...
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:36 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Ruta de la Plata
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3277
Re: Ruta de la Plata
Where was the push up, was it in the Sierra Notre park on the track with new gravel chuncks then dirt before Almaden de la Plata? Or further noth of Caceres. That one, with the viewpoints at the top, was pretty horrible coming at the end of my first day, but not the one I meant. It was much later o...