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.

Reported previously, but raided the SD card from my now defunct phone for this photo from last weekend's pre-Jennride bivvy:

Re. old lenses, I liked the idea that I could use some of my old Pentax lenses on an inexpensive M4/3 adapter, since my previous camera was a Pentax dSLR - in fact the main reason I bought into the Pentax system. But in reality, I rarely use them. The light weight and bulk of the modern M4/3 lenses ...

Just to provide one experience... I've got an Olympus M4/3 mirrorless (E-M10 MK3) which I've been very happy with - probably 4 or 5 years old now. It, or a similar, newer model probably meets most of your spec: Useable manual focus Depends on the lens focus ring to an extent, but the focus peaking i...

Cheers for the info

samwise wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:12 pm Widefoot jist released their new StoutCage....

https://widefoot.com/product/stoutcage/

Does it hold a can of Guinness?

That looks well researched and generally great.

trob6 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 21, 2024 7:43 am Looks good Dave, is that the bike you will use on The Tor Divide?

Cheers Tim. Most likely, yeah, though I'll probably change my mind back and forth a few times in the week before

I was in an orange jacket with a Kendal CC logo on the back. Should be asking on the WJ thread, but was it you riding with Jamie Hyppy? Moving conversation from the BAM thread: Nah, I rode solo. I saw Jamie early on in Ambleside then in the ODG in the evening, but not Sunday. Ah, so maybe it was yo...

I was in an orange jacket with a Kendal CC logo on the back. Should be asking on the WJ thread, but was it you riding with Jamie Hyppy? Moving conversation from the BAM thread: Nah, I rode solo. I saw Jamie early on in Ambleside then in the ODG in the evening, but not Sunday. Ah, so maybe it was yo...

fatbikephil wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:26 pm slightly iffy bivvy

A Biffy?

Not to be confused with a Biffa, which most people would probably consider more than slightly iffy, though maybe not Reg.

I've used a few sets of the cheap Joe's branded valves off CRC/Wiggle. They're brass rather than aluminium and work as well as, or better, than any others I've used. Won't match your rims though, presumably. I prefer Gorilla tape to Tesa tape, but that's a personal thing. Always used Stan's because ...