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- Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 6068
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
I don't see how anyone can legitimately claim one usage is in some way the correct usage. Of course we can, you do know this is the intent and that's how it works :wink: I think if you travel by bike from place to place carrying all the stuff you need for that journey then it's bikepacking. It's no...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:52 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 34597
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I left home near Halifax at 1am Saturday, caught the sunrise in the Forest of Bowland and arrived in Morecambe at 7am. I'm beginning to suspect that you may have something wrong with you :wink: Who leaves home at 1am :???: Another cracking ride John :-bd It's making me feel rather lazy reading that...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1241501
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Howwwww much??? You mean you don't want to curate your kit down to the last detail...? 🤔 Was just about to post that quote too :smile: . Utterly hilarious. If you're only "sipping" from it what's the point of the "innovative high flow design"? (its got a bigger spout?) Stop it R...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: MYOG
- Topic: Bum bag cover
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1897
Re: Bum bag cover
I made one for mine, so nice to be able to hose the cover off and chuck it in the washing machine and have a clean bag underneath.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 34597
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
So has anyone studied what looks like an inverse correlation between the time remaining in the month to get in a bivvy, and the likelihood of it being raining? I think it's more that it rains every day (since October) but as the end of the month approaches and the time remaining for that month's BA...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tarmacs Route Planner?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1495
Re: Tarmacs Route Planner?
Just had a quick play and it routes you along footpaths and the wrong way down one-way streets, so might need a bit of refining yet
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Monks trod - wtf
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2970
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Monks trod - wtf
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2970
Re: Monks trod - wtf
I used to be the Chairman of the IOW4x4 Club (many years ago) and we had a code of conduct for green lane use that 'should' prevent damage. When they closed the longest lane on the Island the idiots still drove it and damaged it, there's not the resources to police it. Also from my 4x4 days, we were...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11455
- Views: 1967373
Re: The post man's been ...
An 11 speed cassette, not in itself of much interest but, this will be my last ever parcel from Wiggle/CRC
Since I got back into cycling in 2007 they've always been there when I needed them. There wasn't even a last packet of Haribo, end of an erea.
Since I got back into cycling in 2007 they've always been there when I needed them. There wasn't even a last packet of Haribo, end of an erea.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 109
- Views: 5669
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
£100 an hour for skilled labour We live in very different worlds if you think £100 an hour is a reasonable hourly wage for any human beimg to earn. ( shaf is a nurse and is nowhere near that for example nor is a teacher etc or indeed almost anyone working. £100 an hour isn't what they earn it's wha...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:56 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2017
Re: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
Going home for dinner and a shower is stretching it, but I guess as long as you don't sleep there... I'll leave it up to your conscience :wink: Even with my lack of conscience I'd say going home is outright cheating :lol: It's a great idea though (as is classic BAM) and I'm now looking at the weath...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2017
Re: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
Good idea :-bd So to clarify, can we use paid for accommodation during the trip? Rules as per BAM, except any accommodation is acceptable for part of the trip to allow for the unpredictability of longer trips. However, at least half of the nights must be BAM-compliant. For example, on Mike's Canals ...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: Potential Emergency Carbon Fork Needed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 917
Re: Potential Emergency Carbon Fork Needed
There's a Prong on STW, was still there this morning.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Matthew Fairbrother
- Replies: 6
- Views: 507
Re: Matthew Fairbrother
I was going to suggest they change the format so they were all self-supported to give him a better chance.... oh hang on he won anyway
How must the other riders be feeling after getting beaten by a guy who rode all the way when they arrived fresh from the truck/helicopter.
How must the other riders be feeling after getting beaten by a guy who rode all the way when they arrived fresh from the truck/helicopter.
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 34597
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Congratulations, another excellent trip there :-bd Mrs Perrin was as thrilled as ever as I covered the washing line with all my soaking wet kit. Ahh, the post bivi kit drying :grin: If it's raining mine gets hung about the house, I even have some strategic screw eyes in the picture rail* in the dini...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3992
- Views: 521479
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Just partaken of a pleasant luncheon. Chatted with my pal at the Council about how he's going to spend the £1m we managed to wangle for new cycleways and footpaths around the town, so that was nice. Based on the rates for HS2 I'd estimate that £1M will be enough to construct nearly 12m of new cycle...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 34597
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Mike took the bridge picture so should get the credit.
When we got to the hide we worked out which side we normally lay on, me on my left and Mike on his right, then worked out which side of the floor to have so as not to wake up face to face inches apart
When we got to the hide we worked out which side we normally lay on, me on my left and Mike on his right, then worked out which side of the floor to have so as not to wake up face to face inches apart
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 34597
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
This is my official BAM entry for March so ignore the previous hammock one. Mike (from Bromsgrove) has never seen the Island and has been threatening to come down for the last few years. He had a few days off and the forecast was good so he rode here to get the opportunity to ride some more :lol: I ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:26 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 34597
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
The number of times I've woken up with a start thinking someone is shinning a torch in my face only to realise the clouds have cleared and it's the moon :lol: Unless you sleep outside you don't realise just how light it is on a full moon, but it needs to be otherwise how would the werewolves see whe...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 10:47 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3992
- Views: 521479
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I heard the longing for proper controls in cars like we used to have is...
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- Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:13 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 34597
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
This one is an extra bivi for the month but before my much more exciting real bivi later this week :???: Needed to get out as I've ended up with a weird tradition where whenever I have a new bike or a substantially changed bike the first ride*, and I mean the very first ride, is a bivi. Having built...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Narrow-wide chainrings
- Replies: 9
- Views: 523
Re: Narrow-wide chainrings
I'm pretty sure that I've not engaged the clutch on my derailleur for several years, the NW works well enough. Me either :wink: Hot tip for ssp mtb riders: If you use a n/w ring, I suggest to use a 11 spd chain and a n/w cog. I'm going to try this. I currently run a NW chainring, narrow ss chain an...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3690
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
As has been said, getting people to change if it is an inconvenience is the issue. Several of my friends have electric cars... they are all 2.5 tonnes + and 500bhp+. If they were tiny and slow would they be so keen, I doubt it. On a lighter note :wink: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53559524793...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:49 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 34597
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:45 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 34597
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
I've had mine for nearly 5 years yet somehow your first pitch appears to be better than any I've managed in that timeBearlegged wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:23 pm New shelter arrived this morning, a second hand Deschutes.
Was it dark when you pitched it? I seem to get better results when I'm rushing and cant see