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- Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:01 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: If we close up for a bit...
- Replies: 753
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Re: If we close up for a bit...
I’m torn. Today I went for my usual round-the-block-bread-and-butter-keep-my-fitness-up ride. Some 18 miles. I’m lucky in that I live out in the countryside and I’m on the lanes straight out of my gate. Don’t have to come close to anyone. But - in the middle, in a little wood, far from houses, there...
- Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3980
- Views: 503488
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
"the really small ones "pig taties" were for animal feed Aah! I remember pig tattles. When I was a lad, dad used to keep pigs. He had a giant pressure cooker to boil ‘taters for feed. Me and my mate used to wait for feeding time and take the freshly boiled potatoes. They were boiled ...
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:30 pm
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: Can anyone tell me ...
- Replies: 17
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Re: Can anyone tell me ...
It’s not as far as Tipperary
- Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Rat advice sought!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 4443
Re: Rat advice sought!
No food source at all only tents taprs and tyvek!! Make sure they're well out of the way - they'll happily eat those. An old work colleague told a story of a secret stash of cash behind a loose brick in an outhouse that his wife didn’t know about. It amounted to some £50 - quite a bit of money in t...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:55 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: My first bivvy
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3982
Re: My first bivvy
I don't think I've done a bivvy without doing something wrong. Sometimes more than once, to my shame..whitestone wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 9:46 pm As my dad would have said: the man who never made a mistake never learned anything.
Experience is a lousy teacher - it gives you the test before you've had the lesson.
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT Postponed.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6256
Re: WRT Postponed.
Ha! I just checked - i'm on my rest days from work then, too. Result :grin: I've been thinking of giving the TCW another go. It'll make a good alternative methinks :-bd Actually, no. I’ve been thinking. To do it I’d have to get on a train, or do a TCW double. That’s not going to happen. Back to the...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 11:32 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Jockey wheels
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1243
Re: Jockey wheels
I suspect the teeth are very worn so slip under tension, it will be obvious when you get a new set. Either replace with SRAM NX specific or check on CRC for compatible jockey wheels. They could be, but it's always happened, even when they were new. The mud'n'grass wraps around and clogs them up. I ...
- Sat Mar 21, 2020 10:10 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Jockey wheels
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1243
Jockey wheels
I need to replace them on an NX 11 speed. A question in two parts:- 1) The jockeys are thick-thin. Do they need to be? I’m asking because, on every muddy ride the chain jumps over by one link, so the thick teeth engage the thin slots in the chain and make it rattle. 2) They have 12 teeth (I s’pose t...
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:56 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 135130
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
Absolutely intend to get up that way Frog when 'it' has been sorted out. I'll hold you to that! This BAM and last months' were by way of a recce for when you do make it up here. I need to find a route that uses more of the descents as descents -instead of pushes. There's always Aprils' BAM for anot...
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT Postponed.
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6256
Re: WRT Postponed.
Ha! I just checked - i'm on my rest days from work then, too. Result
I've been thinking of giving the TCW another go. It'll make a good alternative methinks
I've been thinking of giving the TCW another go. It'll make a good alternative methinks
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:46 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 135130
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
BAM March 2020. 3/12. I suddenly thought, as I was finishing my set of shifts last week, "Oh 'eck! What if I get 'IT' and can't get my March bivvy in?" So I packed my stuff up and went for another tour of the Berwyns. Froncysyllte, along the canal to Chirk, over the hill to Pontfadog, over...
- Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: If we close up for a bit...
- Replies: 753
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Re: If we close up for a bit...
I'm one of the elderly people (over 70) that should be staying out of circulation, but tomorrow I'll be going in to work. Given the number of people I'll be coming into contact with, an "isolation" bivvy ain't going to put me in any greater risk, so April BAM will happen - local but no caf...
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 9:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3980
- Views: 503488
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Bum! Not so cheery - the lawnmower came out today. This means that for the next 6 or 7 months, at least one of my days off will be spent pushing it up and down the lawns. It’s my own fault, I planted the bl***y things. If seemed a good idea at the time. If only I’d known
- Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1458
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Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
The Plough, or the Big Dipper, or Ursa Major.
- Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Face Masks.
- Replies: 58
- Views: 8816
Re: Face Masks.
I’m not worried enough by coronavirus (not worried at all, actually) to start taking extra precautions. Reasons? I’m already past the “span of a man” at three score years and eleven, so wouldn't be losing all that much if I were to peg it. And, there are a lot worse things to die of (thinking cancer...
- Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:01 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)
- Replies: 206
- Views: 31182
Re: The story behind your BB name (and whats your usual form of address)
Name's Lu, short for Ludwik.
The “Frog” name comes from a polish saying about a frog thinking he's a horse and waiting at the farriers for shoeing. It refers to someone with ideas beyond their station - small fry trying to be a big fish.
The “Frog” name comes from a polish saying about a frog thinking he's a horse and waiting at the farriers for shoeing. It refers to someone with ideas beyond their station - small fry trying to be a big fish.
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:59 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 135130
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
February BAM in progress. Things not going well up to now. Late start due to family stuff, then found I'd forgot my cup & bowl, then lost the last of my water when I kicked my stove over so gone to bed on a couple of flapjacks. :cry: Not all bad though - I've still got my whisky nightcap and my ...
- Thu Feb 27, 2020 10:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3980
- Views: 503488
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
One of them is Tim Moore's "The Cyclist Who Went Out In The Cold", detailing his 10000km trek down the Iron Curtain on an 1967 GDR machine. Good fun so far. I rather like his quirky style, 'S funny - I went to our library today and got the same book. I liked his account of the 1912 Giro d...
- Fri Feb 14, 2020 8:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Home Made Bio-Fuel.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4607
Re: Home Made Bio-Fuel.
Been there! Done that! 50 years ago! We didn't waste any as fuel. :lol: Ours was made with sugar and water and fermented with bread yeast in a 9 gallon carboy (like people make a bottle garden in). After two weeks it went into our still made from a converted fire extinguisher and a copper coil in a ...
- Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:50 pm
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: Great North Trail
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5923
Re: Great North Trail
Nah! This ain't social media - this is a common interest forum. Social media is an information-gathering-for-marketing-to separate-you-from-your-money engine.
- Wed Feb 12, 2020 9:36 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3323
- Views: 627327
Re: Todays ride
No pictures 'coz it was only a quick nip into town to get some bits, but the sun was shining and not too much wind, so I thought I'd take a longer road home to make the most of it. :grin: My route took me through a local(-ish) park. This reminded me of the last time I'd ridden through there, around ...
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: map subscriptions
- Replies: 25
- Views: 6785
Re: map subscriptions
I like Viewranger too. Use it on everything I need to plot. I can buy OS maps for the areas I need. they're not too dear - well the 1:50k aren't anyway - and they're available off line.
'T works for me
'T works for me
- Wed Feb 05, 2020 10:40 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2020.
- Replies: 923
- Views: 135130
Re: Bivvy a month 2020.
There's good eatin' in one of them. It'd take a fair bit of meths though...
- Sun Feb 02, 2020 8:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: And the best place I ever slept was ....
- Replies: 37
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Re: And the best place I ever slept was ....
Llyn Tegid, Bala. My first attempt at cycle camping. Never done it before. It was a shake-down ride for the C2C from Whitehaven to Tynemouth in 2014 https://live.staticflickr.com/7897/46148826804_c15d3c29de.jpg Before the mist had cleared... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49479406952_732938c54e...
- Tue Jan 28, 2020 10:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: You’re bunch of criminals...
- Replies: 24
- Views: 4439
Re: You’re bunch of criminals...
Dunnit!