Would you please use the full title of the route/race/meet in the thread subject line. WRT,HTR,CL300,HTTS etc are sometimes impenetrable. That's a good point, as we're all so used to talking about them we forget that not everyone reading is familiar with the shorthand. Not helped by the similarity ...

Sewms to have onw of our very own BBers at the bottom too... There's 9 BBers in the group shot at the start maybe more :smile: Also, that's me and Alan G in the picture under the sign at Chris's house - I'm in my blue windproof and Alan has the rucksack on. I rode with Duncan for a bit on the first...

firestarter wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:11 pm ...and the pole sank doh.

These are the answer to that issue

https://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/shop ... -pole-feet

Handily available from the same shop you'll be ordering your pole from

Thanks. Do I need to include my palmares to get a place of just say I'd like one?

Didn't want to just email and not get a place but equally sending a long list of the events I'm the singlespeed record holder on seems a bit big headed if not required

I'm quite interested in this, assuming travel, accommodation etc. is back to normal. I don't really know much about the route so I have some questions;- Other than the Fords of Avon are there other crossings that might be impassable after prolonged/heavy rainfall? Obviously given how this year has p...

Someone had beaten us to that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47nzyBrENM

When I read "length of elastic" I immediately thought of it running around your face below your nose and above your top lip. :lol: That's not a bad idea, it would definitely stay in place as I move about. I could wear it on the ride there as an extra safety measure :grin: Something like t...

cold, wet and miserable .... any nob can achieve that. :-bd Oi, I've put a lot of effort in to achieving that :lol: I find the trick with inflatable pillows (and mats) is not to inflate them too much. They need a bit of give. A pillow blown up too hard just pops out from under your head. I also hav...

All Exposure lights have the same maximum run time of 36 hours, the difference is the bigger the light the brighter the 36 hour setting will be. For bikepacking my personal opinion is that a Toro is the sweet spot for brightness/size/weight. Paired with a Joystick on the helmet for technical descent...

Last year I only had 2 x 500ml bottles on the bike. It was very hot for the whole of the weekend. On the third day when supply points were further apart I also had up to 3 x 500ml bottles bought as I went along. If I did it again I'd still just take the 2 x 500ml bottles on the bike and take a 1 lit...

Another brewery will be opening on the Island, what could be cheerier than that :grin: https://www.islandecho.co.uk/nano-brewery-in-sandown-high-street-given-the-green-light/ As it's a nano brewery I'll have to put the check shirt on and ride the gravel bike there :wink: Actually my 3 week old beard...

Was interested having googled it to find we have 417 in Norfolk, clearly they don't always place them at high points.... If they did you wouldn't have any :lol: They just needed a reasonable field of view and to be able to see 2 other trig points. I've always been fascinated by them since I was a c...

htrider wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 1:39 pm Aye but most in Scotland require rock climbing to access

The one at Little Ouse, Cambridgeshire is below sea level

23 on the IOW, crikey. Are they all pillars or are some FBMs etc? They're all pillars. The Island is very up-and-down so they had to have a large number to be able to have enough coverage for surveying. They also show how the Island has changed since then. There is one in the middle of Brighstone F...

Fully legal, for the whole of the Island there is only 1 and that's right next to a road on Ventnor down. That's 1 out of 23 we have here. There's a couple where a short walk on a footpath will get you there.

I did something similar locally a while back, rode as close I could get to every one on the Island. This made me smile half the challenge as they are not always easy to find and they are not always defined on maps I've never seen one that wasn't on the map, as they are partnered with a mapping app p...

I remember looking at them before, I never did manage to decode the SRAM info :???: It says Run as a set on single speed machines, or for the ultimate in 1x road, pair with a Force 11-speed shifter Which implies you can have 2 on a ss bike or just use the left on a 1x setup, but in the specification...

I've ridden most of the YD300 and all of the DD. The YD300 has more technical sections. Shaf, do the DD. Both routes are good but there was something special about starting on one side of the country, riding across to the other side and then back again. The section through the North York Moors was r...

I didn't select orange on purpose, I wanted a lightweight gridded fleece and I could only find orange. I've never made any clothing before so it might all go very badly wrong yet. If it goes well I should have enough left over for a matching hat :grin: I guess I could also change into them at the pu...

RIP wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:34 pm "Not dead, just sleeping" .

Funny you should say that as the postman has brought me some gridded stretchy fleece, in bright orange as it's the only colour they had. I'm planning to make some long-johns for sleeping in on winter bivis

Just can't think why I'd have a 5V+ out reading and with good cables still get no charge response from the devices. Gah.. electrics. If I can see what's going on I can usually fix it but electrics are a ghost hunt to me. I'm no expert but... it's current that charges stuff not the voltage, you migh...

Dave Barter wrote: ↑Wed Jul 01, 2020 2:00 pm "The Passenger" seems to be going through my head for some reason

Lol, beat me to it, fast fingers Dave again

A reminder has just come up on my phone for BB300 entry, obviously they are not open yet due to the uncertainty of the situation. To cheer myself up I went to the kitchen to make a coffee. Just about to start grinding the beans when out the window I spot a stoat (or maybe a weasel) running round the...

slarge wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:46 pm Blimey - Sisters of Mercy - somewhere I have some first edition vinyl of theirs

It will be worth a fortune now. I was in a record shop in Leeds in the 90s and they had a copy of one of the early singles, might have been Alice, the price was over what I was earning in a week.

Today it's been Fields of the Nephilim, Massive Attack, Moby and Royksopp. SoM and Bauhaus would be regulars. I've got an Amazon Prime free trial so I'm listening on prime music whist I work, I started with the Nephilim but after that just went were the mood took me or Prime suggested. Not heard any...