DrMekon wrote: What's stopping me is that nobody other than Lauf does carbon boost forks.

Can you explain what you mean by "boost" forks.
Lauf only do Leaf (Lauf) spring forks.

HaYWiRe wrote:If you could only have one bike, for everything, all trips, for life, what would it be?

Halfway through my 2nd weeks holiday I took a Fat Bike spin down to the coast and a beach ride home.
It started in fog and soon the sun came out to burn off the morning dampness.

When bike packing you tend to spend a lot more time with your bike rather than a full susser at a train centre, because of this you tend to "live" with it and rest/stop more so I find there is more risk of scratching the stanchions with the stop starting, gate opening, Throwing bikes with ...

John have you ever tried to fit your tri-bars to them? I was considering a set of tri-bars for those long boring road straights when touring but the bulge on the digest bars seems very narrow. No, but I have them on my Jones bars on my Angus 29er+ and they have a similar step down which I've shimme...

Stuart has a set that he's already testing and JohnClimber appears to be the only person who's ever taken a photo of some actually on a bike! :wink: Ok I can take a hint, but I'll keep the photos small so you can click on them to see them if you want to look in detail https://farm1.staticflickr.com...

Never had a problem like that in my Borah bivi bag but it does have a large midge nettting area to help it breath.
Could you have had it closed around your face too much?

Autumn's great if you're not working and can ride in the good weather and in the daylight, but late Spring is my favourite time of the year

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s8tannorm wrote:30 quid ... job done.

Ok I've bitten, where from and how heavy?

Long shot, I don't want to spend £1000 and only use it the once but has anyone got a Packraft Yukon laying around that I can hire/loan/borrow/sell to me please?

Gari wrote:@johnclimber/Jameso, what width do they come up at? Wondering if they would fit the WTF?

57mm on flow rims, had a real fight getting it on (but I am a wimp).
1 down 1 to go

Mpolo wrote:john would be interested to hear how the bsc tyres work out i could do with something similar for Cuba which will be a lot of tarmac and not much need for knobbles

Gonna fit them this afternoon, hopefully tubless, test ride them locally tomorrow so I'll report back.

New super slicks BSC's for the Monster cross when tarmac touring, test ride this weekend
And chamois cream

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Nice try Ray. Although I like riding against others for shorter times (the Mary Towneley Loop this weekend) I really think ITT's with group starts would really mess with my mind. I'd forget about the I (Individual) part of it and hear the race jungle drums going and like you I'd worry about being ca...

, I'd stopped to bivi at St cuthberts cave, I have wanted to bivi there for ages, did you get disturbed by anyone or did you arrive late, leave early? I arrived there about 8pm Saturday June 12st (mid summers night) there was no one around but with very little wind the midges were unbearable, so I ...

Enjoyed that, but what's the story of the shoe boat?

Just in and getting ready for the work day after a 12 hour overnighter where I met up with Chew on his way from Halifax to catch todays Isle of Man ferry from Liverpool this morning.

We bivi'ed in a tiny comunity Nature Reserve within 8 miles from my home

I've ran 29er+ Knards and Chronicles on 45mm and now 52mm rims and I wouldn't think about running them even on a 35mm rim which I have on another bike.

I rode it North to South this summer during my loop of Northumberland and really enjoyed it apart from the pedalling downhill into the rain and head wind parts. :roll: You're right about the gate and I skipped a section that ran next to a quiet road, as I was fed up with then and the cow a& shee...

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Hey Dave Ref Liverpool https://farm1.staticflickr.com/686/20858391131_cf4208be1f_o.jpg Our route to B will be ok but on main road, and the "Loop Line" north is safe enough to ride on in the morning until about 3pm. As a local I wouldn't ride this after 3pm because of the scally's, people h...

I have just got a pair of the mountskidmore ones which look more solid but dont put the bottle cage far enough down for my medium size frame to fit a frame bag too. They may be in the classifieds soon... Is it possible to weld them together, so that you can "cut and shut" your 2 into a lo...

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That's the one, a cracking bit of simple kit that costs buttons

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