I take it it's the lightweight stuff? Outdry Extreme, "external membrane combined with an inner layer of soft fabric"; sounds like the heavier version to me. That does look the same stuff as on the lightweight 'Titanium' version, currently available for £157. https://www.columbiasportswea...

Hmm, hmm and thrice hmmmm.... Plus you don't have to fanny about taking it to a dealers to service... Anyone want to buy a Triumph tiger 800? Anyway, enough of all that, off oot West this eve for another weekend of drinking beer and woodland management. In a break with tradition the weather looks be...

Hmmm. Once again I was idly contemplating spending 10 large on a new (motor)bike the other day but I've cooled again seeing something like that...

Hmmm also. I see they do a hat as well. Thinking about it though, green isn't a bad colour for overtrousers and once they have got sprayed with gunge they will look OK.
I take it it's the lightweight stuff?

:-bd Good single speed vibes too :mrgreen: I've eaten 4 energy bars in my life and that was 4 too many - they are all over priced crap. Powders and gels taste like something you use to clean the bathroom... A Pork pie on the other hand! (And with an apple and a lump of cheese makes a meal fit for an...

Epic fail on the train front. I could just about stomach the £180 fair but there isn't a bike space on any service between here and there on either the Friday or the Tuesday. Sorry Stu, your event CO2 footprint just went up....

That looks a nice thing Stu and suitably analogue. Re the touch screen stuff - it's even appearing on modern motorbikes - give me a shoogly needle on a clock any day!

Perth to the summit of the Cairnwell? 65k and 660m of climbing, with a nice little sting in the tale?? Mostly long and steady as per Euro climbs though

I've got a place if I pay up. Will give it some thought as in two minds now....

I think I'll stick to the 300...
I'll see. If I can get a week off then mebbes I'll do the whole lot

Ooh, tempting in that case. QR too. Let me think about it and I might make you an offer, unless someone else can use them. No rush, I did try selling them on here a wee while back but no takers. https://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=310936&hilit=fork#p310936 Price very negot...

No probs, they do have triple bottle mounts and mudguard mounts, but tyre clearance is limited to 40mm - https://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/genesis- ... -vargn1261

I was about to say any road ride in mid Wales or the Yorkshire Dales. 1400m climb per 100k is actually quite easy to achieve round here too.

All Whinstone in Southern Scotland Shaff. Not been down that way for yonks - that is a nice road!

None of my GR's were like that

A 20x20x6 slab = 5750 T and that's the size of the ones in my local hills. So 8000T probably about right for one in deep peat. Oh and concrete takes a load of CO2 to produce....

gecko76 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 02, 2024 9:22 pm Regrets not speccing a tapered headtube. Ah well.

I've a straight steerer carbon fork going spare if you are interested Gecko

Sean, I'm swearing by Superstar rings - got one on the Straggler (surly cog and connex 8 speed chain) and it's lasted for ages - 2 years and a good chunk of miles in all weather (2 chains though). I also use a 26T one on the fatty and it too seems to be lasting for yonks. £30

Bloody hell, one of the things I like about that route last year was that it wasn't a complete mission (a la BB300 ) I see he has missed the railway line of headwind doom out and added the inclined plain. I think he was also going to try and remove some of the road riding in the forest.

Select the picture and hit the edit button at the top of the page (microsh*te in the doc / pic viewer) and it opens in paint. The resize button then allows you to reduce it to whatever you want. Sorry that's probably not a great description, doubtless you tube will have a better one...

As for 220m turbines on-shore, it's bonkers, the civil engineering in the base is going to be huge I'm interested to learn more about that to increase my knowledge. At the moment we have the highest one in England just outside our town at 147m. Apparently it's also the most powerful, generating 4.1...

I've found using a NW ring without a clutch mech works fine, no issues with chain dropping. Also used a normal ring (full profile teeth, no ramps or pins) with a clutch mech and it needed a chain guide Funnily enough when I ran a triple, the chain regularly dropped of the granny ring. You always spa...

I thought it was pretty constructive discussion with an acceptable modicum of personal opinions...
Oh well back to riding bikes with bags on folks....

this idealised vision of farm maids wandering through an orchard feeding chickens and then collecting their eggs in a trugg* :roll: I thought that was your job, Bob :grin: The issue with windfarms is that they don't generate much electricity for a very large environmental impact - the access roads,...

A range of mileages being bashed out this winter, very large and very small is good :-bd Mrs Polisherman, try using https://imgbb.com/ Free to register, you don't get spammed to death and unlike most of the other free photo hosting sites, it stays free. Upload a pic (low ish res) by dragging and dro...