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- Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:17 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Mapping Article by Guy Kesteven ("Mapsturbation")
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2006
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 5:00 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Mapping Article by Guy Kesteven ("Mapsturbation")
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2006
Re: Mapping Article by Guy Kesteven ("Mapsturbation")
Just going back to the hipster issue - surely, they all use paper maps already? Do they not favour the 'traditional' - Brooks, Carradice, etc? Also, I'm wondering whether it's fair game to take the p1ss out of hipsters because I'm assuming that (a) no one believes themselves to be one (b) they'd ne...
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:45 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters 2021
- Replies: 526
- Views: 52590
Re: Fat Fighters 2021
No idea if it's true, but I have read that we can have 3-4kg of meat going through the digestive system very slowly. One thing about weighing yourself on Fridays is that I've learnt to avoid a big roast / barbeque / takeaway on a Thursday to make the numbers look better
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:17 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters 2021
- Replies: 526
- Views: 52590
Re: Fat Fighters 2021
31/12/2020 76.5 8/1/2021 75.1 15/1/2021 74.1 According to MFP I should only be losing 0.5kg a week so my numbers are off somewhere. I did have a drink this week, albeit only the one, I've cut out most of the snacks but allowing myself a small chocolate ration, two if I do exercise, seems to be worki...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:06 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Taking a knife to a gunfight.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 5033
Re: Taking a knife to a gunfight.
I did the CTC on my gravel bike using my bikepacking bags, does that make it a bikepacking bike?
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:26 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Taking a knife to a gunfight.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 5033
Re: Taking a knife to a gunfight.
I got my gravel bike to replace my road bike since I wasn't bothered about going that quickly, it was much more comfortable on the country roads and NCN routes I tend to go on around here and I wanted to do some light touring. A gradventourer so to speak. The fact that it's also suitable for the bri...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:37 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 886
- Views: 102401
Re: Today's Run
Have you been riding whilst you've not been running? I think lots of these programs are aimed at people who do no exercise at all, so if you've kept active despite not running you'll progress faster. I also think that as you have been a runner before makes a big difference, it's easier to get it ba...
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: OT: Recommend me a good C25K app
- Replies: 13
- Views: 534
Re: OT: Recommend me a good C25K app
I’m (re-) using the nhs choices couch to 5k podcast, so not an app as such combined with my garmin watch and before i got the watch, just combined with strava.
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:47 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 886
- Views: 102401
Re: Today's Run
Another gentle pootle out today - skipped to the week 2 program, 90 seconds run, 2 minutes walk, rinse &repeat. I missed my cue as a lorry went past so ran for 5 minutes straight in the middle without any issues so going to jump to the week 4 program next time and see how that goes.
- Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:45 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Punctures and brakes
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1925
Re: Punctures and brakes
On my worst ever ride, I had 7 punctures in 6 miles and ended up walking a few miles home with 2 flat tyres having gone through my spare tubes and patches. After that ride, I converted one of my bikes to tubeless and since then I've only had one puncture that I've noticed at the time. That turned ou...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: "local"? Ask Boris :-)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 3050
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you drinking now?
- Replies: 704
- Views: 69575
Re: What are you drinking now?
A Bramble, the first drink of the year
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 7:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Favourite kit from 2020
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5723
Re: Favourite kit from 2020
My Stooge Scrambler IMG_0381.jpg What's it like? Are they making any more? It's fantastic. Like a big BMX I guess, but it settles into bikepacking duties really well too. Stooge have previously only done one production run of each frame. All the Scrambler frames have now sold, but I reckon there wi...
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 5:39 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 886
- Views: 102401
Re: Today's Run
It was ok but not great - didn’t feel the ankle other than right after going over a 50m batch of icy path. I wasn’t exactly overdoing it though, just following the nhs couch to 5 k program which this week (week 1) is just run for a minute, walk for 90 seconds, repeat 8 times. I could have probably s...
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:37 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Today's Run
- Replies: 886
- Views: 102401
Re: Today's Run
I nipped out for my first run in 6 months since I fractured my ankle. I’ve just restarted the couch to 5k program again which is probably a little conservative but I feel really unfit so it’s not the worst plan
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:47 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Favourite kit from 2020
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5723
Re: Favourite kit from 2020
I got very little new kit last year and what I got I didn't end up using a whole heap so I'd have to go for the acepac top tube bag which just gets moved from bike to bike
- Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:09 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters 2021
- Replies: 526
- Views: 52590
Re: Fat Fighters 2021
31/12/2020 76.5
8/1/2021 75.1
It’s a wonder what cutting out beer and cake will do. It was also a low meat week so a bit of a flush out of the system.
8/1/2021 75.1
It’s a wonder what cutting out beer and cake will do. It was also a low meat week so a bit of a flush out of the system.
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:45 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: FS: Boreas Topaz 25 pack
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1001
Re: FS: Sierra Designs Flex Capacitor (40-60l) and Boreas Topaz 25 packs
Especially if it’s still integrated into a DeLorean
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:07 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters 2021
- Replies: 526
- Views: 52590
Re: Fat Fighters 2021
Apparently having a stressful day allows you more calories with My Fitness Pal. My fitness watch has credited me with around 4 pints of beers worth of calories despite my only real activity being taking a child to the dentist.
It amuses me anyway
It amuses me anyway
- Wed Jan 06, 2021 12:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Hate to bring it up again but ...
- Replies: 108
- Views: 8431
Re: Hate to bring it up again but ...
Bloody hell this is getting a bit posh now isn't it!?!? Tea pots for proper tea and taking the pi55 in verse :shock: feeling very inadequate now :grin: It's a chocolate teapot. It's chuffing useless :grin: I disagree on the usefulness of a chocolate teapot. While it's not very useful for it's prima...
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:02 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Rear light?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2571
Re: Rear light?
I have a habit of losing lights that are clipped to seatpost bags so I recently got a Cateye Omni 5 which comes with a mount that fits the seat stay nicely - it takes AAA batteries rather than rechargeable so hopefully it'll be a set and forget light for a while.
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 5:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bargain Alert Thread
- Replies: 4898
- Views: 1190270
Re: Bargain Alert Thread
Are they one of the few still shipping to the UK?techno wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:26 am discounts on sunrace cassettes: https://www.bike-discount.de/en/search/ ... q=cassette
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 10:14 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 13 speed.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1597
Re: 13 speed.
They’ve got the first production ready 13 speed derailleur but rotor did some wacky prototype hydraulic shifting thingy in 2019
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 12:02 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: winter cycling trousers ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 755
Re: winter cycling trousers ?
Similarly to others I’ve used a pair of PI Amfib tights under a set of Endura 3/4s for the last few winters. I’ve got some Madison waterproof 3/4s as an alternative to the Enduras but not tried them yet.
- Sun Jan 03, 2021 11:55 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Fat Fighters 2021
- Replies: 526
- Views: 52590
Re: Fat Fighters 2021
If you want to be really accurate you could do a 7 day rolling average like RichardG does and make sure you weigh yourself at the same time of day.