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by benconnolli
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
by benconnolli
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...
by benconnolli
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
by benconnolli
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
by benconnolli
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...
by benconnolli
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...
by benconnolli
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? ;)
by benconnolli
Tue Aug 07, 2018 5:49 pm
Forum: General banter
Topic: The post man's been ...
Replies: 11456
Views: 1978890

Re: The post man's been ...

metalheart wrote:Some Japanese Ti porn
...wouldn’t want this in any of my meals
by benconnolli
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...
by benconnolli
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
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by benconnolli
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...
by benconnolli
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...
by benconnolli
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
by benconnolli
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 ...
by benconnolli
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
Ooooh spooky!
Ooooh spooky!
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by benconnolli
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 ...
by benconnolli
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
by benconnolli
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 ...
by benconnolli
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...
by benconnolli
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...
by benconnolli
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
by benconnolli
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
by benconnolli
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...
by benconnolli
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
by benconnolli
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