Sorry Reginald, no exclusion intended. Happy to add the obvious to my first answer. If a certain fairy tale is of a high relevance, wear a snow white costume. If a specific childrens novel from 1865 is of high relevance, wear a rabbit suit. If wanting to feel like a DH racer is of high relevance, we...

Here's a suggestion. Think about why exactly you're riding a gravel bike. If speed is of a high relevance, wear lycra. If style is of a high importance, read fashion magazines and wear what's shown there. For lycra I can highly recommend Assos. Well worth the price. There's gravel specific Assos stu...

Bunch of us riding from Geneva to Nice in September - any tips where we can get boxes for the flight home? There are numerous bike shops in Nice and it seems they can be bought (for €€'s) at the airport, but any tips for the budget conscious........ Cheers I find a shop (before my trip), ask if the...

Ride offroad

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I play the same game with subspecies of the pine trees, grasses, flowers, clouds, animal tracks, scat etc.

They're maintenance free if you don't maintain them :lol: Love it. Has a Homer Simpson logic to it :-bd Does occasionally oiling the chain count as maintenance if you just splosh some more on when the noise gets too much? No need to bother; in Homer Simpson logic, you could deal with the noise by l...

It seems pointless to me, I always say if you're going to have gears - have lots. If you want, reliable, maintenance free (but never in the right gear :wink: ) go singlespeed. Once you add the complexity of changeable gears then have enough to make it worthwhile. I have 3 single speed bikes. Their ...

Ta Mr B :-bd GPS altitude is the (potentially) least accurate part of the system. Typically the error in altitude is up to three times that for longitude and latitude. It's just down to how GPS works. You need at least four satellites to get altitude data and ideally one of those is close to overhe...

What have others done in the past when starting getting into it? Any experiences from hindsight? Either bivy with no protection but just a sleeping bag/mat or my former single wall mountaineering tent (very low dome). I still go with the cow boy camping method in stable weather, all seasons. Nothin...

Cheery Saturday here as local lad Charlie Hatton takes Gold at Mens DH World Championships :-bd All those years of practice in a wet Forest of Dean :cool: :-bd Great stuff. Spent half the day watching the races unfold on varying channels (SRF, BBC, GCN). The reaction of Emilie Siegenthaler was love...

Any suggestions of a cleaning trick that might work Thanks to the good description of your's, I'm sure the only way to deal with it is to bin it. I couldn't find any detailed specs of the filter module itself, despite following a few links on the manufacturer's website, but some filters actually ge...

Yeah, that's a tricky one. Whilst it doesn't quite seem as bad in my case, I recongnise myself in many of your words Rockbus. And yet... I manage to drag myself out regularly to still the deep rooted curiosity. Mostly alone. Sometimes spontaneous (even a Iceland traverse in wintry conditions), somet...

Nobody had any CFs this week?? I was too busy at work to even think about it, will need to do a couple more hours this morning to catch up on absolute essentials, then very cheery as I have a week off :cool: Will be quite a varied one with an outdoorsy Snowdonia weekend starting later today, then a...

Assumginly Yeti has ever since been without any brand name complaints from the abominable snowman. Which in different regions of the Himalayas has different names anyways. Such an unorganised bunch... Eg. chumong, cheti, nyalmo (only those I can think of, but there will be at least 20 more names). M...

redefined_cycles wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 2:13 pm Will if it's found that the Yeti feels offended. I'd be offended if I was a/the Yeti

Yeti (cycle, CO, USA) had "an issue" coming from Change.org; they (change.org) 'petitioned' to force Yeti to stop using the term Yeti "tribe" (owners group).

Getting everything from Extremtextil the material costs where round about 110 €. Bear in mind I have to make two quilts, if I buy if from Spain, it's 380 eur (12 meters of 7D + 5 meters of Apex 200) including vat and delivery. I can save 21% by ordering from UK but then I have to pay uk vat plus cu...

Getting everything from Extremtextil the material costs where round about 110 €.

I don't pay to join Air BnB or booking.com, I just pay to book a campsite or room. Indeed and with that payment you pay fees. I just recently saw a 24.- CHF fee on AirBnB, was about 10 % of the total price. Givem 5 years to realise that they could offer two versions: annual membership with reduced ...

Schwalbe Wicked Will new in Schwalbe's lightest mtb casing option - "Super Race", yet the second grippiest compound - "Soft".
Unpectacular for most. Quite exciting for me though

Given their latest releases followed suite by availability, this should be in shops soon.

You may not needed for Apex, but I suggest going with calendered fabrics. They tend to work better with humidity, wind and dirt.
I'd probably rather go with a calendered 10D than a non calendered 7D.
If you don't mind ordering from DE, check out Extremtextil.de. Fantastic shop.

Not only would I, but I did on all (3) quilts I made and said liner bag. My go to winter bag is also completely from 7D as are some of my and my girlfriends down clothing. So far so good. Except for that time (winter, probably 2018) when I didn't tighten the bar harness enough and the front, studded...

Symptoms are howling brake with no power. It can be improved by cleaning the rotor and pad or burning it off on a a long down hill but deteriorates again in no time. Indeed seems to be getting contaminated by oil from a leaking. I had this on one Shimano brake once, was a BR M775 or M665. Instead o...

If you haven't bought any fabric yet and wondered if 7D (eg the one from extremtextil.de) is up to the task (sleeping bag/quilt/bag liner); yes it easily is. My oldest MYOG quilt is turning 10 in autumn, made a liner too. Especially the liner gets torn and pulled since I use it for almost all trips ...

Sounds alright to me (the Apex 200 choice). Between August and September the coldest nights of 5 trips always were around light freezing. Like 1 - 2 nights per trip across the Highlands. If you tend to use a light weight down or synthetic jacket anyways, you can use it for the coldest of nights to b...

I feel for you. Last... probably 10 months were rather quiet. Had perhaps 2 punctures/cuts I could fix within a minute and forget. Then within 2 weeks 3 cuts, all bad enough they needed a spare tube or sewing (at home). Of course I had forgotten to pack patches since I rarely need them. On the flip ...

Thanks for the updates Shaf. Why not just try and do as much as you can? No numbers whilst you're at it. Just the feeling. Once you feel sub standard, just dig deeper. Then again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. Etc. Until you can't hold yourself on the bike anymore. Just a th...