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- Sat Aug 26, 2023 6:57 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 886
- Views: 102831
Re: Today's Run
What's the budget? I replaced my Garmin with a Coros Pace 2, very impressed, as well as for running I wear it all the time as a smart(ish) watch - notifications of texts, calls etc, fitness tracker and I also use it on the bike. Really good battery life as well.
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183467
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Usual school-night bivi. Decided to ride further as the evenings are so nice, not too far or I'd be off the other side of the Island and into the sea. Kept to the south-ish side but my destination was on the north coast. On the Island unless you go through Newport all trips going south>north or vice...
- Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:17 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WTD: 2.5 Jones Bar + Sonder Confucius FS
- Replies: 3
- Views: 443
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 9:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Contemplating a change of air mattress...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1004
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:58 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Contemplating a change of air mattress...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1004
Re: Contemplating a change of air mattress...
Surely the cat repeller is to keep cats away? If only they made an ultrasonic slug repeller I'd buy one
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 11:04 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Contemplating a change of air mattress...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1004
Re: Contemplating a change of air mattress...
The one that popped the seal between the baffles was replaced by exped - but the replacement has done the same. I don't blow them up hard so I'm not sure what has happened there. My Neoair Unberlite did this as well, replaced under warranty and the new one did exactly the same second use. It also h...
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:05 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ali Express issuses
- Replies: 9
- Views: 720
Re: Ali Express issuses
This ^ I have changed my attitude to cheap imports, I'm just not happy with the moral position. I saw feature about a factory where a worker has to reach in and remove an item in time with the process whilst the machine is still moving, almost weekly someone is killed or loses both arms. The locals ...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 952
- Views: 115659
Re: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
I have 3 single speed bikes. Their drivetrain may need less attention, but they're not maintenance free. They're maintenance free if you don't maintain them*, see my winter comutter for example :lol: The trade off is when I do some maintenance it's usually replacing all of it. Does occasionally oil...
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 12:24 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
- Replies: 952
- Views: 115659
Re: New Bike Gear Out And Due Out...
It seems pointless to me, I always say if you're going to have gears - have lots.
If you want, reliable, maintenance free (but never in the right gear ) go singlespeed. Once you add the complexity of changeable gears then have enough to make it worthwhile.
If you want, reliable, maintenance free (but never in the right gear ) go singlespeed. Once you add the complexity of changeable gears then have enough to make it worthwhile.
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 11:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lockable dry bag ? :-S ?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 161
Re: Lockable dry bag ? :-S ?
Are you a day early, surely this a Cheery Friday post?
Wouldn't anyone who wanted the contents of the dry bag just cut it open If they're a real bikepacker they'll have an axe attached to the gravel bike they can use to get into it
Wouldn't anyone who wanted the contents of the dry bag just cut it open If they're a real bikepacker they'll have an axe attached to the gravel bike they can use to get into it
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:29 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Widening wildcamping
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1691
Re: Widening wildcamping
Yeah interesting point on open data, Dave (likewise a huge fan). I can see that getting revenue from arranging and conveying that knowledge (intellectual capital, if you like) makes sense from a commercial perspective though. The other version describe themselves as The Nearly Wild Camping Club is ...
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 10:59 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Widening wildcamping
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1691
Re: Widening wildcamping
I'm confused here, is it the same as this one that's been going a while https://nearlywildcamping.org/ Seem to have the same photo on the home page. I think the new one is for punters and the one you linked is for suppliers, the loop is now closed The one I linked to is for both, you can join as a ...
- Fri Jul 28, 2023 10:49 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Widening wildcamping
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1691
Re: Widening wildcamping
I'm confused here, is it the same as this one that's been going a while
https://nearlywildcamping.org/
Seem to have the same photo on the home page.
https://nearlywildcamping.org/
Seem to have the same photo on the home page.
- Wed Jul 26, 2023 6:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Shimano caliper - micro leaks
- Replies: 21
- Views: 825
Re: Shimano caliper - micro leaks
Can you mix and match Shimano and Hope? Hope use DOT fluid and Shimano use mineral oil so the seals of one may not be compatible with the fluid you choose?
- Tue Jul 25, 2023 6:19 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 886
- Views: 102831
Re: Today's Run
Usual post work Tuesday for me, sunshine all day and clouded over as soon as I left the office, but it did knock the edge off the heat. Went at it harder than normal last week which felt good (afterwards) as I'd realised I was taking it easy every week. No plan this week and wasn't really feeling it...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:43 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cloth patches
- Replies: 14
- Views: 948
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 10:21 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183467
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
My first in the streak was March 2020. I wasn't doing BAM but had a new (to me) bike and it's now a tradition that the very first ride for a new bike is a bivi. I allow myself a 100m spin in the road outside my house to make sure it pedals but that's it. I realised that if I didn't get out that mont...
- Fri Jul 21, 2023 9:23 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183467
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Another local school-night bivi. In fact it was at the exact same location as last months, although this was deliberate as I had a new bit of kit to try and wanted all the other variables to be the same, so I'm claiming it was for scientific accuracy and not just because I couldn't be bothered to lo...
- Thu Jul 06, 2023 10:20 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WANTED - UNDERQUILT FOR HAMMOCK
- Replies: 10
- Views: 586
Re: WANTED - UNDERQUILT FOR HAMMOCK
Any use? https://www.mountainwarehouse.com/extreme-lightweight-down-blanket-p30945.aspx/Black/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=FB_UK_Catalog_Prospecting_Always-On_2&utm_content=FB_UK_Catalog_Prospecting_Always-On+-+Dynamic That's spooky, I went to my local Mountain Wareh...
- Wed Jul 05, 2023 7:19 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WANTED - UNDERQUILT FOR HAMMOCK
- Replies: 10
- Views: 586
Re: WANTED - UNDERQUILT FOR HAMMOCK
Cheers guys. I'd been looking on eBay and FB marketplace and noticed they don't seem to come up for sale very often/at all.
Perhaps I'll have a look at synthetic. I've got an old synthetic sleeping bag that might be a good basis for a myog one as a trial.
Perhaps I'll have a look at synthetic. I've got an old synthetic sleeping bag that might be a good basis for a myog one as a trial.
- Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:00 am
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: WANTED - UNDERQUILT FOR HAMMOCK
- Replies: 10
- Views: 586
WANTED - UNDERQUILT FOR HAMMOCK
I slept in my hammock at the weekend and unlike the previous occasion I didn't end up with motion sickness so maybe I've got used to it. Using a mat as the lower insulation is a faff and I feel like I'm missing out on some of the comfort a hammock should provide so looking for an underquilt. I'll be...
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 8:49 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What down tube bag…
- Replies: 11
- Views: 873
Re: What down tube bag…
If it's for tools I think a tool bottle on the underside of the downtube is better, if you can mount a cage there. I'd also use a strap just to make sure the bottle stays in place. I've got a downtube bag but I only use it in the summer or if it's dry on the trails. If it's muddy and you need to get...
- Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:58 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Decent lock for bikepacking
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1492
Re: Decent lock for bikepacking
I use a little 6mm cable lock, I think I was given it by a friend, they use them at Centreparks maybe? I look at it this way, a proper bike thief can defeat any lock, but, they generally operate where there is more choice (railway stations, bike parking areas in big towns) and aren't waiting for som...
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 11:21 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183467
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
I know :???: How are we supposed to know that day we need to get up to see the sunrise? Next year I'll have to befriend a hippy in the run up to get the inside info. Yeah man, like get up and see the sun man, cool man, yeah like, what day? Oooh, don't know man, don't crush me with these rules about ...
- Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:09 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 183467
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Back in December (at the winter bivi) we discussed a solstice bivi, but work commitments meant this was out of the question for me :cry: I did plan to get out locally for the solstice, the actual solstice was Wednesday at 15:58 so I had planned to bivi on the Wednesday night as that's the closest to...