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- Sun Jan 12, 2020 9:53 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dam Busters.
- Replies: 89
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Re: Dam Busters.
Well that was a bit of a weekend. Plan I had was to turn right after Llan up the 'back side' of Foel Fadian and then head south towards Rhayader ticking off Stuart's grid references. When I had issues pushing my bike up the road behind Fadian I thought I better have a rethink. Decended towards Stayl...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 4:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dam Busters.
- Replies: 89
- Views: 15761
Re: Dam Busters.
Should be there 9-9.30 depending if I stop for chish and fips on the way.
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:01 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: How to insert pictures
- Replies: 249
- Views: 156223
Re: How to insert pictures
Testing, testing
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 4:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dam Busters.
- Replies: 89
- Views: 15761
Re: Dam Busters.
Either of them is my plan B. Plan A is a bit further south.middleagedmadness wrote: ↑Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:56 pm Looks like it’s gonna be a mad race for some to either Rhys or syddion (hope you like getting cosy if your heading to rhys
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 10:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dam Busters.
- Replies: 89
- Views: 15761
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1547
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Re: What you done t' your bike today
Supernova rear light fitted to the Longitude today. Came with a seatpost clamp which would be fine and dandy if I was not using a seatpack. Hidden by the back guard if placed at the bottom of the post. Moved it to one of the seatstays and used an alternative shorter o'ring to fasten it on along with...
- Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:42 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dam Busters.
- Replies: 89
- Views: 15761
Re: Dam Busters.
Know where you are coming from.Escape Goat wrote: ↑Sat Jan 04, 2020 12:25 am I'll be at the Star on the night. My main problem is matching faces to names on here
- Fri Jan 03, 2020 8:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bivvy a month for prizes !
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1651
- Fri Jan 03, 2020 6:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dam Busters.
- Replies: 89
- Views: 15761
Re: Dam Busters.
Route calculated so that a pub is within reasonable cycling distance from my proposed bivy spot or is that the other way round !
Breakfast booked at the Star at Dylife. Anyone else kipping in the car park on the Friday night ?
Breakfast booked at the Star at Dylife. Anyone else kipping in the car park on the Friday night ?
- Tue Dec 31, 2019 5:54 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Stats for the year (that was)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5515
Re: Stats for the year (that was)
Glad to see a few more people apart from me using kilometres. Always seems right, as you go faster and further with them :grin: Had a bit of a bad year in 2017, so 2018 I was mainly in recovery mode trying to get back near normal. 4223 km riding, 66858 metres of up is what I recorded on Strava, howe...
- Fri Dec 27, 2019 2:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ethical and Environmental Options
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5927
Re: Ethical and Environmental Options
Mrs G is doing a degree on environmental stuff and I think between us we've spawned a Derbyshire version of Greta Thunberg, so as you can imagine conversation in our household sometimes heads onto consumerism. Other point to bear in mind is if you go to a smaller 'cottage' industry where stuff is ma...
- Thu Dec 26, 2019 10:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Go on then, what did you get?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5574
- Thu Dec 26, 2019 8:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Go on then, what did you get?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5574
Re: Go on then, what did you get?
Migraine from listening to the in-laws. Humbug !
- Tue Dec 24, 2019 10:49 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Dam Busters.
- Replies: 89
- Views: 15761
Re: Dam Busters.
Busy putting crosses on maps whilst I've got the house to myself as the family are out shopping.
Looks a good route. Looking forward to it.
Looks a good route. Looking forward to it.
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 11:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Alternative BAM
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2489
Alternative BAM
Wondering if anyone's ever done a Bothy a Month ? Different one each month - no repetition allowed.
- Tue Dec 17, 2019 9:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: TLS Tow less S**t
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1484
Re: TLS Tow less S**t
Bet that would be fun off road. Looks like one of those products that's only used once before going on eBay.
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:10 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Favourite bike of 'all time'?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 17754
Re: Favourite bike of 'all time'?
'Montage.. cantis...biopace.. 18 thumbshifteds....' 'much better kit later..'. Nah! My 1985 Dawes Cougar was exactly the same kit (probably the only stuff available!) and I loved it and still do, but then I am a pervert :smile: . My lad still has it, complete with original biopace and shifters - mo...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 10:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Interesting idea, but
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1607
Interesting idea, but
Stumbled across this on the interweb https://bikepacking.com/news/cranktank4/ Interesting idea, and get it if you are going somewhere that's a tad less wet than the UK and has less cafe's / pubs / refill opportunities. But that's 4 kg of ballast on your bike when it's full. I normally 'survive' on c...
- Sat Dec 14, 2019 8:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Favourite bike of 'all time'?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 17754
Re: Favourite bike of 'all time'?
The humble Raleigh Montage. First MTB or ATB as they were called in 1986. sub standard components - canti brakes that hardly stopped, biopace chainset and 18 thumb shifting gears. However went winter bikepacking in the Cairngorms on it which consisted of a MoFo rucksack full of climbing / camping ge...
- Tue Dec 10, 2019 6:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11456
- Views: 1972076
Re: The post man's been ...
Mudhugger 29er rear guard for a Longitude that I've been building up over the past few months. Just need to hope I've been a good lad and Santa brings me a Supernova rear light.
- Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you doing next year?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 14359
Re: What you doing next year?
Got a big year planned for 2020 as I had a couple of health related issues which set me back this year so I've got some catching up to do. On the definite list is the Winter Event, Dirty Reiver, WRT and YD300. Also got a plan to ride to the south coast as the wife's got family down there. Plus 'if' ...
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: I know I shouldn't be surprised any more ....
- Replies: 64
- Views: 10371
Re: I know I shouldn't be surprised any more ....
Well BB200 made this list Stuart, if that's any consolation. https://advntr.cc/events?fbclid=IwAR21a ... 3tdNr67_rs
- Tue Dec 03, 2019 9:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A special Birthday.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6595
Re: A special Birthday.
Many happy returns. I hope you had a good one and were pampered appropriately.
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 5:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: taiwan imports?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2416
Re: taiwan imports?
Import a lot of stuff from outside of the EU. You'll probably get hit for the VAT + customs processing charge based on the declaration on the outside of the box and the exchange rate that day. Parcelfarce seem to have sharpened up on this over the past year or so. Used to be 50/50 on whether they wo...
- Sat Nov 09, 2019 8:41 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1244561
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
After some new Winter gloves. After putting a tweet out someone recommended these. Currently an extra 15% off if you use the discount code.
https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/extre ... colour=124
https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/extre ... colour=124