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- Tue Apr 12, 2016 1:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: No more hippies and explorers!
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1742
Re: No more hippies and explorers!
"intelligent piece". "in the Mail". ? ;-)
- Thu Apr 07, 2016 5:17 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11559
Re: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
My, probably not unexpected by now, rejoinder is that I'd thought those privileges were already part of the LHC membership package :). Anyroadup, tx again, really looking fwd to it all.
- Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:05 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11559
Re: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
Thanks for the etiquette points chaps. I need to step back and await Chew's unfolding plans!
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:26 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11559
Re: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
An off-the-wall option is train from Talybont to Llandecwyn to cut out all that road. Well, I believe the "rules" are that anything goes so long as it's "open to every rider" :-). Someone delete my previous post pls if sticking routes up is frowned on, ta, although gawd knows how...
- Wed Apr 06, 2016 11:19 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11559
Re: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
Thanks guys, will be great to meet you too. Bit busy over next couple of days but am trying to work out the mileage (or k-age if you're younger than me :-)) to take in all points. I've got as far as Trawsfynydd about half way round and am up to 100 miles already so I must be doing summat wrong. Tryi...
- Tue Apr 05, 2016 10:12 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
- Replies: 45
- Views: 11559
Re: WRT Lonely Hearts Club 2016
Thanks Chew, for your public-spiritedness! Am interested, as have no friends at all other than my trusty Orange P7. Luckily I can swear on demand, but unfortunately not in Welsh - maybe that can be rectified on this trip. In the best dating traditions, here's me: Aged 57 but a mental age of about 8;...
- Mon Apr 04, 2016 12:56 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2016.
- Replies: 251
- Views: 70594
Re: Bivvy a Month 2016.
Grindslow Knoll, Dennis Knoll, Brown Knoll, Windy Knoll, Crookstone Knoll, Knoll Knoll (might be wrong about that one) .... (I'll shut up now ).
Maybe we should organise a PRT (Peaks Ride Thing(*)) visiting all the knolls in Derbyshire?
(*) Copyright Stuart BBB.
"Reg"
Maybe we should organise a PRT (Peaks Ride Thing(*)) visiting all the knolls in Derbyshire?
(*) Copyright Stuart BBB.
"Reg"
- Sun Apr 03, 2016 3:30 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2016.
- Replies: 251
- Views: 70594
Re: Bivvy a Month 2016.
PS. lovely P7 there too. Mine's still going strong after years of abuse/love. They'd be the only things left unscathed after a nuclear attack.
- Sun Apr 03, 2016 3:27 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2016.
- Replies: 251
- Views: 70594
Re: Bivvy a Month 2016.
"favourite Peak District Knoll" - nice one Greg. Would that happen to be W*r Knoll by the way? (NOOOO not that word!) Nearly tried it the other day but went for J*s C*h instead cos of nearby stream. It's a long wall, HopeX to W*r K*l (I've worn out my star key now), is the whole length fla...
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:44 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2016.
- Replies: 251
- Views: 70594
Re: Bivvy a Month 2016.
Bad luck not much wood.... erm, on a closer look that furniture looks remarkably dry.
I'll get me coat....
I'll get me coat....
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:44 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2016.
- Replies: 251
- Views: 70594
Re: Bivvy a Month 2016.
Looks lovely up there! That bothy's much nicer than our HOUSE - furniture looks amazing.
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Schnozzle or pillow?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1476
Re: Schnozzle or pillow?
Had a pillow pump ( http://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/equipment-c3/sleeping-mats-c58/mat-accessories-c60/exped-pillow-pump-p798#specifications_tab ) - 150g. Swapped for a hard-to-get-hold-of mini pump (43g) and UL pillow ( http://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/equipment-c3/sleeping-bags-c21/pi...
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: minimalist first aid kit: show me / describe your's please
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5735
Re: minimalist first aid kit: show me / describe your's plea
Excellent.. and very important/useful... thread BTW... Don't like to talk about it, tempting fate, but similar to the Mistress/Mastress(?) - best talked about before you have to, to save things getting messy when you need to .
- Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: minimalist first aid kit: show me / describe your's please
- Replies: 36
- Views: 5735
Re: minimalist first aid kit: show me / describe your's plea
Bit p1ssed at the moment, apologies. Best state to be in when talking about leaking/damaged bodies. Anyway, humble left-field contribution: agree with all the "FIRST aid, sticky plaster, gaffer tape etc; then owt else for goodness sake call for help" views, "DrsABC" thing, emphas...
- Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Which saddle?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 6090
Re: Which saddle?
"Selle Italia Trans Am XO". Cracking saddle, another vote here. Bought four when they were on sale and hid one in each of my stashes around the house so Mrs P can't find all of them.
- Wed Mar 23, 2016 7:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11457
- Views: 1984660
Re: The post man's been ...
4 x AA Energizer Recharge "extreme" batteries for Steripen. "Normal" rechargeables do the job but show low battery reading. Oh, and a set of Hope Tech 3 V4 brakes (20% discount Westbrook Bikes) which should really be on the mantelpiece as works of art. No point having them on the...
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 11:53 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3325
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Re: Todays ride
Yep, a bit of Peak [Pp]ractice for me too. Weds lunchtime alighted at Grindleford station, thence via Stoney Middleton and track to Eyam where I figured I deserved a break at the Village Cafe after my 3 miles of exertions. Well it doesn't do to overdo it at my age. The climb up to Sir William Hill (...
- Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:15 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Knots for tarps
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4514
Re: Knots for tarps
Sorry meant clove hitch for lifter above. Was suffering under the hail of blows from Mrs P.
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Knots for tarps
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4514
Re: Knots for tarps
A-frame? Same lines etc. Clove hitch round top of poles if u want them away from the tarp for lower pitch. Flying V and lost yer poles? Few loops round a tree with a slippery 'alf 'itch. Other three corners pegged to ground. One line half hitched round a handy stick to make a lifter to keep the tarp...
- Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Knots for tarps
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4514
Re: Knots for tarps
Tarped in Peaks night before last. 8x10 and some 1m and 2m x 1.5mm dyneema and Stu carbon pegs and poles. Flying V. Up in 60 seconds no faffing with ridgelines. All lines got luminous minilineloks one end and bowline the other. Push bowline slightly thru tarp loop then linelok end thru bowline and f...
- Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:02 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: Regular Peak District Night Ride?
- Replies: 434
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Re: Regular Peak District Night Ride?
Technically not a "night" ride, in as much as it's an, er, "day" ride; but on Weds will be doing something like Calver (early PM) - Eyam - Bradwell Moor - Hope for Cheshire Cheese beer/nosh about 6pm. 30 mins of night ride (to allow me onto this thread) to crash out near Jaggers ...
- Sun Mar 06, 2016 7:37 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2016.
- Replies: 251
- Views: 70594
Re: Bivvy a Month 2016.
INSIDE Monsal tunnel now that's brilliant. 100' of rain protection, did you bother with a tarp as backup? ;). Great place anyway, although one would have preferred the Stables Bar to have been 100' feet away horizontally rather than vertically. Once organised an AGM for an outfit I'm a member of, on...
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 4:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: New bell - 'tis quite clever.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3694
Re: New bell - 'tis quite clever.
"loud"? Got three of these (nooo, not on the same bicycle! Hmm... then again...). 140dB at maximum revs. Trouble is there's only certain areas I can use them because they contravene Strategic Arms Limitations treaties: http://www.airzound.co.uk/ http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/161976046003?...
- Thu Mar 03, 2016 4:42 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3325
- Views: 662283
Re: Todays ride
"40 miles of slipping and sliding". Wow, that's Gloop Central, top effort. Great to see a proper warning device on those bars too - almost puts my "Postman Pat" to shame. Works fine apart from on the canal towpath when I sound like a duck and everyone ignores it. (apologies, pic ...
- Wed Mar 02, 2016 12:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11457
- Views: 1984660
Re: The post man's been ...
With my usual impeccable seasonal timing (not): Down hat: http://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/equipment-c3/socks-gloves-mitts-hats-c151/hats-c154/plume-mountain-cap-p4768/s19935?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=montane-plume-mountain-cap-colour-moroccan-blue-colour-moroccan-blue-...