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- Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
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Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
I've seen talk of reinstating the site once the masts/turbines reach the end of their life but as Paul notes, surely once the base infrastructure is in place then the topside stuff can all be replaced/upgraded? There was discussion on Countryfile about wind farms - turns out that so far "they&q...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3590
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
However, just where is the energy we all need going to come from if no-one wants the production facilities (of whatever nature) on their doorstep? The community where my sister-in-law and her husband live campaigned against a small (4 masts) wind farm. They then approved a floodlit football pitch! ...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 3590
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
I have to admit to being somewhat ambivalent, on the fence, about wind farms. On the one hand they certainly aren't aesthetic in any way and by their nature have to be in areas with (reasonably) reliable wind which does mean our more upland areas or a reasonable distance out to sea. However, just wh...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:23 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 31836
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
My latest Deschutes pitching experiments have led me to do it like the flat tarp in an A config - peg out the two rear corners, in with the pole and peg out the pole guy, peg the rest out - works every time! That's pretty much how I do the Gatewood which is essentially the same design. I've found u...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 31836
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Apparently it was "International thingymijg" or something at the weekend so in a mad moment of joining in we headed south picking up the Pennine Bridleway. If you weren't on rocky tracks then the going was very soft and slow. We were aiming for a bivy spot that Cath had been told about clo...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:44 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: OT: Cheapest way to (entering) a trail half marathon!?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 986
Re: OT: Cheapest way to (entering) a trail half marathon!?
Have done both half and full Yorkshireman, can't remember the years but should be in the results from about 12yrs ago. Even though it's an FRA event it's closer to trail running terrain. Edit Scratch that! Did the full in 2004 (4:57 finishing time) and the half in 2005 (1:54) and 2006 (2:04) /Edit E...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 1:42 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Flttingford bothy
- Replies: 16
- Views: 665
Re: Flttingford bothy
Depending on how turbid (cloudy/dirty) the water is, then filter to remove the particulates and bigger Protozoa. Then bring to boil. No need to have a rolling boil as is often recommended, you just need to get it above 70C (or thereabouts) to kill off any remaining bacteria and viruses. I did post a...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
- Replies: 11
- Views: 349
Re: An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
I might be wrong but I struggle to believe folks genuinely think in KM in the UK.... "oh the speed limit on a UK motorway is 112km" it's not, it's 70mph. But like I say I might be wrong. I'm 64 and while, like you, I mix and match much of the time (I'm 1.80m tall with a 42" chest :??...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
- Replies: 11
- Views: 349
Re: An interesting bikerafting route up in the Highlands
I had noticed the route being posted. A good way to make use of some of those frustrating "tracks" that just stop in the middle of nowhere, most will be stalking paths so just lead to close to the edge of that particular estate - there's two tracks on the north side of Loch Mullardoch for ...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:17 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Winter JennRide
- Replies: 3
- Views: 799
Re: Winter JennRide
A mixture. I just put on the damp leggings but had an Alpkit mid-layer top that I used instead of the thermal top I'd been wearing on Saturday. I'd taken a spare pair of socks but they were almost as wet by the time we got riding.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:06 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Winter JennRide
- Replies: 3
- Views: 799
Winter JennRide
Well that were a ride of two halves John. Saturday was almost a horrid day as you could hope for in February in the Lakes. Perhaps its only redeeming quality was that it wasn't cold, it would have been really serious if it had been. Meanwhile Sunday was just about the exact opposite, more like an Ap...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 31836
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
When we did/attempted the French Divide we were each given a cycling cap with our name on the underside of the peak. Might be an idea. The BB jerseys (in whatever colour) are quite distinctive so even without names they are something of an ice breaker: "So who are you on the forums then?" ...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:39 am
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 31836
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
We need BB username badges! I hope I spoke to all of you doing the JennRide—Whitestone, we spoke on Walna Scar Road today—but I wish I'd been able to put names to faces at the time. But where to put them? On the back of the bike/seat pack so that riders know who they are passing/being overtaken by,...
- Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 31836
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Just back from the winter JennRide - 150km of winter wonderfulness :???: Come to the Lakes they said. It'll be picturesque they said... There'll be wonderful views they said... It'll be lovely they said... They lied! Got to the ODG at about 1830 and decided to have tea there. About 2030 we headed ou...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
- Replies: 65
- Views: 2109
Re: Who'd have thunk it, an interesting article on Road.cc?
Ultimately we all (try to) justify our own actions. Of course that means airlines also try to portray themselves as "green" by saying "flying is only X kg of CO2 per mile" and is thus comparable to, for example, train journeys. This somewhat sidesteps the fact that a typical flig...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 12:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
- Replies: 88
- Views: 6245
Re: End of an era - perhaps. UPDATE
Cheery Thursday
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:12 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 1001
Re: Hot 1: hat 0 - what lightweight oven mitt?
Surely the answer is to get one's butler to do it
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 15175
Re: Todays walk
Unfortunately the cafe we were heading to in Slaidburn had shut down, but a coffee and sandwich from the nearby post office was a reasonable substitute. Sad to hear about the café, there's a lot that's shut down in the last couple of years so things are getting a bit thin. Dunno what your route was...
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:48 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a Month 2024
- Replies: 536
- Views: 31836
Re: Bivvy a Month 2024
Happy birthday youngster.
Someone else's birthday tomorrow
Someone else's birthday tomorrow
- Sat Feb 10, 2024 3:39 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays walk
- Replies: 49
- Views: 15175
Re: Todays walk
More Veloviewer tile grabbing... This time at the top of Waddington/Easington Fell I'd three squares in a row to visit. On the way up the long road climb I passed three cyclists. I was just getting ready to set off and one of them pulled up - John Allen of this parish! So a bit of a chat before I he...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1265
Re: Lowest useable gear
26/46 on the fatty here as well though TBH fatties are a bit different and their traction/stiction create their own effects. At the top end the angular momentum of the tyres lets you keep a higher speed than you'd otherwise imagine.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:03 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 2.5kg too heavy for bar harness ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 285
Re: 2.5kg too heavy for bar harness ?
I'd say 2kg would be around the maximum for a bar mounted bag but everyone's different, some might baulk at 1kg up front. If you are happy with it and it doesn't affect *your* handling/enjoyment then I wouldn't worry about it.
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:00 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1265
Re: Lowest useable gear
Yes. By the time I'm spinning out I'm going fast enough that it's not a problem. It doesn't happen that often anyway, makes more sense to have something usable at the lower end.godivatrailrider wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:43 am
And 30/11 is acceptable for the flatter/slightly downhill sections still?
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Lowest useable gear
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1265
Re: Lowest useable gear
My lowest gear is 30/50 so 1.66 ratio.
I could go lower but I find I need a bit of resistance especially if the ground is rough and sometimes will actually be in a higher gear to give me momentum through rougher sections.
Everyone is different though and a lot depends on what you are used to.
I could go lower but I find I need a bit of resistance especially if the ground is rough and sometimes will actually be in a higher gear to give me momentum through rougher sections.
Everyone is different though and a lot depends on what you are used to.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 143126
Re: Wildlife
A couple of red kites whilst walling over at my brother's. Not seen them in the Lakes before.
Apparently the curlews are back from the coast already. Not heard any yet but if they are here then it won't be too long.
Apparently the curlews are back from the coast already. Not heard any yet but if they are here then it won't be too long.