I've been a few times as the plymouth ferry is my 'local'. I agree, it's a cracking place to ride. The only planning I did for my last trip was to turn right out of the ferry port. Had a cracking time just seeing where the road took us. Hoping to go again for a long bank holiday weekend in May. The ...

Gravel tandem, seems just the ticket

Tandems arn't cheap either. I've been reading / looking at the Viking tandems. Whilst they are most definitely entry level they seem to be well regarded by their owners. Or there's secondhand option. Ask to borrow Rich/Minipips for a trial. I'm sure they wouldnt mind. One like theirs would be ideal...

I have read that it can be a bit bumpy on the back. Guess I'd know pretty quickly if my daughter is not getting a smooth ride!

I've seen the recumbents but I'm pretty sure one of those would be plenty £££.

Hadn't thought about the "staring at the back" issue, will keep that in mind. Would that be something that could be rectified by a more upright seating position?

I'm trying to arrange a loan bike from a friend so hopefully that will help.

Hoping to spend a couple of weeks in the summer riding some of the Velodessy out and back from Roscoff with my daughter. We've done a number of trips over the years so we both know what to expect from one another. She's 9 and we can mange about 100 miles over 4 ~ 5 days on a not too lumpy route with...

ScotRoutes wrote:It's beginning to look like a normal bell curve.

I'm just glad I'm no longer one of the bell ends....

I wish I was one of the bell ends!

+1 for the Alpkit Gamma. Always liked mine until my daughter broke it :(

I got her an Alpkit viper for xmas, not as good imo.

The green led is 7 lumens according to their blurb so not mega bright.

Home made corn beef quiche, line a dish with corned beef, fill with onion,bacon and anything else you Fancy, mushrooms, spinach etc, whisk up eggs and cottage cheese and pour inside,add grated cheese Then bake until firm and golden.....delicious, the corned beef can be replaced with cooked ham if Y...

Just been reading "The postman's been...", the irony made me chuckle.

Not casting any aspertions, I'm as gulitly as then next. My cave is full of bikes, boats, wetsuits, camping gear, roller skates, tools, car parts, electronics, etc, etc.

Flats on the fs Flats /spd combo on the 29er Spd sl on the roadie Rode clipless exclusivley for years and then started using flats and haven't gone back. Even though i have the combo pedals on the 29er (which is my bike packer) i don't bother with the spds anymore. Partly due to the fact that i dont...

For whatever reason barely used ramins come up pretty often on ebay. I picked up a 2015 4 for £400 and it was totally mint like it was just wheeled out of the shop. I love it. The only thing is it only has 1 set of bottle mounts but i've been using the rubber strap mounts which work really well and ...

Stupidly I neglected to address this issue before last week's trip to the Cairngorms. The weather was very hot and I really, really fancied a cider lolly. Despite checking every shop I went into I couldn't find one anywhere. In the end I had to make do with several pints of cider with ice in. Not id...

If you want a printable 1:25k os version i have a pdf. Don't tell anyone else though othewise they'll all want it

Sold, i bought it earlier today. Hope you get your commission

Also like that it does geocahces as thats a favorite of my daughter.

Ok cool. Done that but i reckon i just blew my limit as i got all the way round the CGL in 1:30 and 3/4 round in the 1:25 the it stopped cahcing tiles. I really like the litte x hairs feature where you line it up the the route and it tells you that stats for that point. Very simple, certainly compar...

I use maverick app Ive been playing with and it seems good, certainly easier the viewranger. The only issue i'm having is offline maps. Ive got myself a bing key and set that up ok. When i highlight an area it downloads ok too. What ive noticed though is if you zoom in whilst offline it doesnt nece...

Mariner; it was rock solid in firefox. Got all 27 sheets printed as pdfs now and then merged them together in acrobat.

Just installing maverick now so ill give that a spin.

I overlayed a gpx route was was useful, not sure if you can fo that with bing? I thought id try the app because if that was any good it was easily justify the cost but ive juat installed it on my phone its as buggy as hell. Shame because viewranger maps are so chuffing expensive. Seems precious litt...

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£150 and flog it on gumtree for £50 when its worn out?

£150, wow, that's amazing!

Done the outer loop now. I set the page size to A3 and then "print to scale". Change orientation to fit max on per sheet. Print a sheet and save as pdf. Move print preview window to join to previous pdf and print again and again and again.... It's taken 20 sheets to do the outer loop so do...

Cheers Mariner.

Benn having trouble last night and this morning.

I've switched over to Firefox from IE and it seems stable now.

Half way round and on sheet 7 so getting there but it's clunky and sloooow.

I'm trying to print the CL route Normally I like to buy the paper maps but it covers quite a few sheets so £££ and too many to carry. I realise I'll most likely still end up printing out a fair bit but I can keep it tight to the route and double sided it should make it manageable. Maybe I'm missing ...

Im trying to print off a route using os 1:25000 maps via an online tool.

Tried the os maps premium subscription, tried view ranger but both their printing tools appear to be beyond useless.

Any other sites i can try?

Its a long way from here to there.

Ive looked at trains planes and automobiles and the car is the most convenint and significantly cheaper. As for riding, ive done the end 2 end before