Landslide wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 11:17 pm Pressed for time, are you?

Maybe both!

Yep, in funny money units .

I don't think they had litres in Newton-le-Willows in 1957

Same outfit built the incomparable Lightning of course. And my incomparable first cooker.

TheBrownDog wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 4:58 pm 'taters.

It's certainly " 'taters " here. Leggings still in place, now had to augment with a fleece!

Bigger than Trev's head . Size in which units? cubic inches for example? 7500 I believe.

Well there we go. I've just had to put my bamboo leggings on under my trousers and it's still August.

Can you do this with Death Trap's engine Stu . Might have to "Drink Me" first I guess .

And no, Trev, I'm not calling 999 if you get your head stuck. It's even less believable than a saucepan.

Alan63 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 29, 2021 10:32 am Ae.

Always been intrigued by that placename. Shortest in UK? Need to go and look up origins...

htrider wrote: No probs Jimmy. It's time to start thinking of a winter bivvy venue.

Oh Lordy, already? . Best time of the year. Peak District anyone?

We think you already know which of those two minds has the upper hand .

Would certainly raise being 'bunged up' to a whole new level of uncomfortable straining.

Two boxset DVDs - The Prisoner (renowned) and Sapphire & Steel (niche). No more saddles though.

Pickers! Happy Birthday old bean When they made Pickers they threw away the mould..... which had accumulated on his sleeping bag during one particular BaM we did .

You've almost got the set there. R*ck, p@nniers, t#nt, ch@ir. The four points of the flaming antibikepacker cross .

BigdummySteve wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:29 pm curling up in the mud and crying instead

Stevo you've impressively and succinctly summarised BaM there. If it's being done properly.

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:28 pm Night shift on Monday and a long day on Sunday... I'm thinking that I could take my bivy gear to work Sunday early morn depart. Post work head out to the Howardian Hills or somewhere scenic. Wake up, have coffee.. ride home and tick the 8th Bivy...

Perfect. There you go, sorted

Grand plans to work towards the GBDURO, GB divide, Dales Divide and one day maybe attempt to board the Tour Divide mothership! Ohhhhhhh... dear. And it all started so well :wink: . Absolutely avoid anything with 'Divide', 'Trans', 'Ultra' or similar in its name. Or anything with two zeroes as the l...

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 9:11 am Must get act together and go get it done

Not again! GET. ON. WITH. IT. MAN. . You've got three days left never mind three minutes!

PaulB2 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:33 pm I showed the missus your note and we're not going to Barmouth now so, ta, I've dodged a bullet.

She wants to go to Aber instead. Bullet still in flight, bad luck . Ya can't escape the Cambrian coast vortex .

This has prompted me to re-read all this thread. Somehow missed Phil and Ben's posts. Blinking hilarious! Thanks for tonight's belly laugh gents :smile: . Stove's ace obv. Surprised nobody's asked for a 4g (not 4G that'd be daft. Then again, a packet-switched network of stoves? Hmmmmm....) version t...

PS. Tell us a bit about the scene in the IoM. My daughter's beau is a Manxman but he's still a bit baffled about the concept of sleeping in ditches :smile: . Maybe there are no ditches in the IoM? Sadly I last went 58 years ago and I can't remember. I do remember being stung by a bee at Laxey wheel ...

great post V

Consequently it had four quicklinks in it :shock: A chain made entirely out of quicklinks would be interesting. Presumably you'd still need a spare quicklink to fix it? first dibs on the chain! Blimey how far back did that get dug up from?! Quite an entertaining notion of a chain made of quicklinks...

And it's got that hefty anti-tamper cage round the padlock as well - what's all that about? For a start it's just a short path connecting two bridleways. Then surely if you were desperate not to lift the latch but fancied breaking the padlock wouldn't you just saw the loop? With every alternative ea...