This 'un would be a BaM, but there'll be another one from the Peaks soon, so here goes. A ride from home. I've bivvied in nettles, in wild garlic (phew!), in violets, in primroses, in bluebells and in wood anemones. Todays' aim was to sleep in snowdrops. The ride was mostly on tarmac or towpath, - n...

Krupnik - in a graveyard full of snowdrops

*bugger - i find I've got to get out (and back in) to this bivvy bag before I go to sleep..

An easy ride today, on lanes and towpath and two tunnels, to see a choo-choo train on a viaduct. :grin: Pictures. Tunnel... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52652629288_e6eb858628.jpg Train on viaduct... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52651657287_b12a60c2d5.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/...

voodoo_simon wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 7:58 pm Nate’s in the 60threads aren’t that nice, ridiculously heavy. …… there is about 400-500g difference between the two versions

500 grammes. That’s lot of extra inertia to get moving.

(a) The 120tpi Nate is a much more supple beast than the 60tpi equivalent. I'd not hesitate to pay the extra cost. A good answer. I think I’ll go with that. (b) The 26 x 4" tyres may well be on the same carcase as the Nate and will actually be the same dimensions. This may well be true, but I ...

WRT last May I managed to get a hole in my fatbike tyre that Stans wouldn't fill. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52048661774_d18daa5ae8.jpg It's a Bontrager Hodag 26x3.8 that came with the bike when I bought it (back in 2014). It's stood in the shed unused since May, but now it's time to get a ...

Verena wrote: ↑Fri Jan 13, 2023 6:59 pm
In other news, cached in a late Christmas/ 50th birthday present (o the joys) and attended my very first routine mammagram screening session.

Now I know how a panini feels

I hope you haven't got the burnt stripes

Neil removed shoes, socks, lifted leggings, and threw said shoe over the watercourse (it worked once over a stream in summer). With too much effort applied, catching my fingers on exit, my first shoe went vertical, thence nose diving to sit like a boat on the fast flowing water. :lol: Can I just as...

Hmm that first pic ploughing through the bog shows up my sartorial elegance a little too closely for my liking :smile: . Washing up gloves, sandals, inside out fleece leggings with no shorts or knickers etc. Then again I suppose that's exactly what all the best-dressed bikepackers are wearing these...

Not listening, but watching.

https://youtu.be/z9RZ5ul4SOs

I was there. Some parts gave me moist eyes, especially the kids playing. It was a good time to be a kid - we didn’t know we were poor.

Here we go again...

At the WE 2023. Brigands Inn, Mallwyd.




That's 1/12 for 2023.

Reg has given a comprehensive account of our trip, so there's not much more I can add except a few photos, so here's my contribution... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52618180470_5e1c2e0066.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52618181075_092883dfe2.jpg I think it was at this point that Pete...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 7:07 pm Before you all go and get drunk,

Too late!. A few? bottles of Leffe and a couple of bottles of whatever and a general portion of G&T...Happy New Year I've lost the power of speech.. bblfroofther...

got the thermarest one Me too. It’s a few years old now but works fine. I like it because the the thermarest doesn’t fill with moisture from my breath. Battery case falls off all the time though amazed i have not lost it yet. Mine did too, on the first trip out. Still works though. :-bd Batteries l...

At a family gathering for Christmas Eve, Pint of Mild, a couple of Fosters, another pint of something else, a couple of glasses of Lidl Gluvein a generous G&t and a good measure of Krupnik. My head is spinning. Bedtime, I think….

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Sat Dec 17, 2022 9:27 am

let alone having a clue how to cook one

I believe traditionally, that you put it in about now.

And don’t forget to start boiling the sprouts while you’re at it…

Sean..

sean_iow wrote: ↑Mon Dec 12, 2022 11:45 am

I'm having an acute case of thermometer envy. Where can I get one?

December BaM in progress.In my hammock, hoping for a dry night because I've forgotten my tarp. Oops! Update: BaM 12/12 for 2022. Left home at 7:30 pm heading on back lanes to a place I visited probably six or seven years ago, looking for a geocache. I remember thinking at the time that this would b...

December BaM in progress.In my hammock, hoping for a dry night because I've forgotten my tarp. Oops!

December BaM in progress. Gone to bed with 100ml Żubrówka.

Cheery and warm . The repair man’s been and fixed the central heating boiler that’s been broken since Monday. It hasn’t been desperately cold despite the frosts, because we have a log burner in the sitting room that keeps the house from being too cold. No hot water either. Got through a pile of logs...

The Cumbrian wrote: ↑Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:21 am

frogatthefarriers wrote: ↑Thu Nov 24, 2022 5:14 pm

This was above my head in bed on my latest bivvy. Stripy sandstone.

Were you in the Queen's Parlour?

Nah. Mad Allen’s Hole.

I suspect it's a cost thing - the Mora is synthetic so it could be that designing/sewing an effective cinch mechanism would cost too much or it might just not be cost effective to do it. Their Cloud Cover down quilt might be a better option, if more expensive, do a search on here - John Climber has...

PaulB2 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 11:19 am Now I'm wondering if someone has done a tour of the Greggs of Mid Wales.

Sounds like a “theme” for the winter event?

ootini wrote: ↑Fri Dec 02, 2022 5:30 pm Does this mean that, if more women apply to enter than men, further men shall drafted and forced to ride in order to make sure the event can go ahead?. Or vice versa?

Oh ‘eck! If they’re going to start drafting men, I’m off to Azerbaijan or Georgia, or somewhere…