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- Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bamboo shirts update.
- Replies: 66
- Views: 12002
Re: Bamboo shirts update.
Keen for a medium
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 8:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Torino nice who's doing it this yr
- Replies: 379
- Views: 63217
Re: Torino nice who's doing it this yr
What a trip! Start to finish it was tip top. Route, riders, rowdy descents, roadie climbs, riding my bike. Day after day it took my breath away. You may appear to really enjoy doing it James but it is proper fab so thanks for the experience. Didn’t want it to ever end, then, due to a monumental cloc...
- Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:20 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Welsh Winter Bivvy .........
- Replies: 111
- Views: 22440
Re: Welsh Winter Bivvy .........
Keen to get involved with this riding of bikes and associated activities
- Thu Aug 30, 2018 9:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Blueskylavendar eBay
- Replies: 3
- Views: 988
Re: Blueskylavendar eBay
What use have australians got for quilts? I thought it was hot over there
- Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:44 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 154305
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Board was boarded at every available opportunity. On the smooth ups a bungee chord was used to secure the frame bag and a dog walkers lead used to haul it along. Not as daft as it looked, but that isn’t hard as it looked right daft. I’ve gone from 0 to 2 bikes in the space of a day so reckon a prope...
- Mon Aug 27, 2018 11:22 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 154305
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
So I am in a bit of a sticky situation in that I didn’t have a complete working bike I could ride til I go back to Birmingham at the end of the month. Rules can be a bit boring and I gave it a good substitute. I am interested in what defines a bike. Self propelled motion? Wheels? Gliding downhill? W...
- Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Can we have a new jersey yet?
- Replies: 234
- Views: 38439
Re: Can we have a new jersey yet?
Love a bit of cuddle bear and think it fits well on the rear pocket. Orange zombie just looks like a pumpkin to me. Is a casual orange and black feather boa on the cards?
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 5:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11456
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Re: The post man's been ...
...wouldn’t want this in any of my mealsmetalheart wrote:Some Japanese Ti porn
- Sun Jul 15, 2018 11:32 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 154305
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
7/7 This one was a bit different in that wasn't about the cycling or the sleeping in the wilderness. Yesterday afternoon eating my Falafel Mama I saw a flyer for an event in Gloucester that evening. Mix of beat box and theatre on the roof of a multi story car park. Last minute plans are my favourite...
- Thu Jun 28, 2018 11:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Portrait of a bikepacker - photo comp. WINNER!
- Replies: 67
- Views: 18067
Re: Portrait of a bikepacker - photo comp.
This was a main road. In Wales. In March. I was prepared to risk being uncomfortable to experience something out of the ordinary
- Thu Jun 28, 2018 10:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Multiday (more than 2 nights) Adventures
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2388
Re: Multiday (more than 2 nights) Adventures
I was in a similar situation with life always being too busy with stuff to do more than a few days. Just go for it. I didn’t take any more clothes but allowed the luxury of a flannel which can make you feel fresh and didn’t really use it. Getting dirty happens slowly and you get used to it. Ride you...
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 10:23 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 154305
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Out of Wales yeah, but I’ve got a job in the Cotswolds so am living here now Have a scout about mate and let me know if your about in September and I'll have a trundle down ,more beer and talk more bollox as on wrt Cheers Stuart Sounds grand. Have poked my head around a bit and keep seeing potentia...
- Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:19 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 154305
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Out of Wales yeah, but I’ve got a job in the Cotswolds so am living here now
- Fri Jun 22, 2018 11:53 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 154305
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Finally got round to going on a "proper adventure" on my adventure bike. Went to an entire different country, Scotland, for a week of grrrravel and gwwwoar. Initially it was going to be the Wild About Argyll Trail, but two days in I realised my bike could take me anywhere and the embedded ...
- Mon May 28, 2018 8:01 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11456
- Views: 1978890
Re: The post man's been ...
No pictures of lightening as it was too quick for me. I do however have the arty farty prints from the WRT including a spooky one of the Mawddach estuary as the temperature inversion rises like a sea of ghosts
- Sun May 27, 2018 7:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11456
- Views: 1978890
Re: The post man's been ...
I rushed out to the back garden. Felt like I was part of an artists impression of a music festival as the sky was lit up in fantastic ways followed by a great rumbling of thunder that wobbled my mat. Super cool! Finally had the chance to test out my tarp rigging skills in rough conditions after all ...
- Wed May 23, 2018 6:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: On the modern origins of bikepacking
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5429
Re: On the modern origins of bikepacking
Loved the article and the iPlayer link too. That video gives me some more ideas for my any bike is a bikepacking bike two-wheeled tramp trip next time I find myself stuck in London
- Sat May 19, 2018 6:15 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 154305
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Keen to try out my ultracheap (£7.35) gorilla cage alternative and make use of yet another ridiculously lovely weekend of Welsh weather, I set off. Whenever I tell anyone here I have a mountain bike here they have been like "Have you been to Coed y brenin? I hear it's amazing" "Nah I ...
- Thu May 17, 2018 8:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Footpaths
- Replies: 46
- Views: 6677
Re: Footpaths
I am not keen on the idea. How is us riding footpaths breaking that rule any different from lads on scooters ripping up our nice bridleway tracks? Yes we know how little damage we cause to paths, and our stench is merely natural, but to the rulebook rambler we are all lumped together as disturbers o...
- Sun May 13, 2018 6:43 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: 2018 Borders 350/Borders 220 group start, register now.
- Replies: 63
- Views: 19769
Re: 2018 Borders 350/Borders 220 group start, register now.
Sorry Ray I will have to drop out of this. It would mean taking the second week off from my new job as holiday. Much as my boss is also a cycling nut and would surely understand, I need to show some sort of commitment to the job as I only have a trial initially May the weather be forever in your fav...
- Sat May 12, 2018 9:49 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Simple drop bar conversion
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2572
Re: Simple drop bar conversion
A simple solution would be bar end shifters combined with brake levers such as the TRP Hylex
- Fri May 11, 2018 6:31 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
- Views: 658655
Re: Todays ride
Cheers. Yeah I’m here for five weeks still so will get to see how the welsh summer compares to the tenth anniversary WRT
- Fri May 11, 2018 12:09 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
- Views: 658655
Re: Todays ride
Was getting the train back from a successful job interview in Stroud on Wednesday afternoon and just hit the rush hour commute from Birmingham. Lots of sweaty, sweary, stressed people piled into not nearly enough space so when I got to Shrewsbury to transfer for another train I decided to hop off fo...
- Sat Apr 28, 2018 3:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT the Star and the weather thread
- Replies: 49
- Views: 8130
Re: WRT the Star and the weather thread
Will be at the star using my favourite mode of transport. Weather will be grey sky with a bit of drizzle* as it always is round here.
Classification of drizzle is subjective
Classification of drizzle is subjective
- Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:15 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2018.
- Replies: 634
- Views: 154305
Re: Bivvy a month 2018.
Hahaha fair cop
I can’t understand her disapproving look though, those orange mudguards have done an excellent job
I can’t understand her disapproving look though, those orange mudguards have done an excellent job