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- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 5646
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
I suspect Stu is along the right lines... Interestingly, over on that Bikepacking.com, all the young dudes are strapping saddle packs, bar rolls, front pouches, frame bags, multiple stem cells / gas tanks / other wee bags, fork bags on there bikes and also carrying bum bags (I'm looking at you North...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 32868
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Looks meaningfully at watch. cough, cough. Any more for any more??
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Is this 'bikepacking'?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 5646
Re: Is this 'bikepacking'?
No bogs, no tussocks, no cowering under a thin sheet of nylon in the rain, no slugs. Where is the fun in that? :grin: A better version is to carry proper bikepacking stuff (cue further argument :grin: ) but stay in hotels / B&B's hostels / bothies. I did my first Highland trail like that and I w...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3485
Re: WRT GR's
I noticed that. The OS app in bike mode took you up the track to with 100m of it. But I wouldn't trust the OS app to tell me the time of day....
Couple of potential cheeky short cuts up north!
Couple of potential cheeky short cuts up north!
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Trans cambrian way improvements.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 505
Re: Trans cambrian way improvements.
Forgot it was April fools, very good Stuart, you've missed your vocation in life
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 1:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR's
- Replies: 64
- Views: 3485
Re: WRT GR's
Cheers Stu, now trying to plot on a map (digital Reg, sorry)
So the utterly rubbish OS app doesn't allow you to add GR's to a route - does anyone know of something that allows me to plot all the GR's then create a GPX pf them all and straight lines between them, which I can edit?
So the utterly rubbish OS app doesn't allow you to add GR's to a route - does anyone know of something that allows me to plot all the GR's then create a GPX pf them all and straight lines between them, which I can edit?
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 32868
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Another for the last minute rush... Been down to Mum and Dads a fair bit this month as Dad is having a very hard time recovering from a knee opp. "The last one wasn't like this!" he said. You were 56 then Dad, not 83... Anyway, he is currently safely in a respite care home and should be ho...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:10 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4933
- Views: 1237157
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Howwwww much???
Think I'll stick to my 5 quid efforts...
Think I'll stick to my 5 quid efforts...
- Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 32868
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Good stuff Jeff- last time I was in glen affric it was 25 degrees! Currently under tarp - no wind no rain. Very odd....
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: So this is who lights fires ...
- Replies: 150
- Views: 17922
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Monks trod - wtf
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2884
Re: Monks trod - wtf
Seems to be a large amount of irony over this as it was the UK govt that introduced the CROW act which restricted a lot of byways to non-motorised use and prevented historical claims to creating more byways (and other ROW's which unfortunately back-fired) I actually wonder if the journo has got it w...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 10:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 109
- Views: 5531
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
Whenever you pull something like that off, It's always nice to know you are ahead of the game!
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Barkley Marathons chitchat
- Replies: 50
- Views: 4532
Re: Barkley Marathons chitchat
Just twigged thats her that won the spine race back in 2019. Makes what we get up to look a bit lightweight
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: Anyone playing out?
- Topic: GB Duro Entries open
- Replies: 39
- Views: 2470
Re: GB Duro Entries open
I've ducked out of the group start as I'm keeping hols free to help mum and dad. I think I will just do a ride up the route one time but probably not this year.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 109
- Views: 5531
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
Look at it this way Shaff - if you manage to sort this, bike related fixing will seem easy, ever after! That said stainless bottle cage bolts corrosion welded into ally frames can be much harder as there is less to hack away at!
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3992
- Views: 517848
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Bad luck Dave - mebbes should expand my crash thread to crashes, mechanicals and other bike related misfortune which don't necessarily cause major damage or cost but are a PIA. No cycling for me this weekend as down at Mum and Dads - Dad is still in care after a knee replacement opp so helping Mum s...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Crashing....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 611
Crashing....
Anyone who has properly smashed themselves up in a bike crash ignore, this is for wusses like me who do stupid things.... So a month or so back I was out on the Krampus on a dark, but unseasonably dry and calm night. Semi fallen tree at trail side decides to grab hold of bars and wrench them from my...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: Capital trail... but which version?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1691
Re: Capital trail... but which version?
2015 route emailed and our previous discussion has all come back to my ageing memory
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11453
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- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11453
- Views: 1960827
Re: The post man's been ...
A pair of panaracer grovel tyres from Bannanananana industries - a mere £20 each. The down side is that they are light brown and green but once they have been through the local glaur they will be all dark brown....
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:41 pm
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: Capital trail... but which version?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1691
Re: Capital trail... but which version?
There was some chat on this between me and Lazarus a wee while back - I have the old route and he had the new one, which I think is the one on Bikepacking.com. A forum search may find it.....
If you pm me an email address I'll send you the one I have - from 2018 I think.
If you pm me an email address I'll send you the one I have - from 2018 I think.
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 109
- Views: 5531
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
So glad you mentioned that Phil. I actually ordered this from Screwfix for my Dremel (yes, it's not the first time I've had to deal with stripped bolts, but bikes are easy peasy) https://www.screwfix.com/p/dremel-952-grinding-stone-3-pack/65026 but then speaking to thw Mini Restoration chap he said...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:44 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
- Replies: 109
- Views: 5531
Re: Off Topic - siezed, rusted, possibly double threaded, sheared bolt extraction advice!
Shaff - get a dremel (cheapo ebay copy in any case) and try to grind out as much of the bolt as you can before have a go with a tap. In fact if you are careful and very patient, you might be able to get enough out to pick the threads of the bolt out without tapping - even if you can get the first bi...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 11:31 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1875
Re: Supertramp 2024: A Challenge
Funnily enough Dave, I was thinking earlier that I tend to only sleep out for three maybe four nights at a time on a trip, Highland Trail excepted, and I need to up my game. It was partly why I went for the GBduro as that would be 10 nights straight but for various reasons I'm not doing that now.......
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 32868
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
A nice mix of urban and rural challenges duly overcome there Reg