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- Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:07 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
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Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Extreme Ironing. Remember that? Of course :smile: For an AGM of a society of which I'm a member, I once suggested holding said AGM on the 70' high Headstone Viaduct - the famous disused railway bridge at Monsal Head in Derbyshire. For no good reason I convinced everyone to take a chair and a random...
- Wed May 31, 2023 9:59 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205386
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
Thanks for all the comments folks. I'm glad you liked it, but I feel a little guilty posting it in the BaM thread because it's not really (to my way of thinking, anyway) a BaM - more of a gimmick of the same ilk as Extreme Ironing. Remember that? A proper bivvy has a decent ride and a cooked meal be...
- Wed May 31, 2023 4:38 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205386
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
May 23 BaM - Last minute, but Dunnit! 5/12 for 2023 and 101 altogether. These... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52939308272_c73928bfd9.jpg ...cattle troughs are on a local loop that I pass once or twice a week.They look to have been dumped in a wide part of the Bishop Bennets way, by the farmer...
- Tue May 30, 2023 11:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you drinking now?
- Replies: 714
- Views: 81370
Re: What are you drinking now?
Żubrówka. On my May '23 BaM. Lying in my water bed, waiting for the Starlink chain to come over...
- Tue May 09, 2023 9:05 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Random encounters, they're life affirming
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1996
Re: Random encounters, they're life affirming
Not bike related, but life affirming? Oh yes. Many years ago Mrs Frog and I were in Ireland for 4 nights. 1st night was in Avoca (where they'd filmed Ballykissangel), then in Killarney and then we would look for a B&B somewhere near the ferry port at Dublin. The trouble was, that at the same tim...
- Wed May 03, 2023 8:15 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1547
- Views: 275171
Re: What you done t' your bike today
Straightened the rear mech hanger that somehow got bent on first day of WRT and gave me trouble until the end.
- Wed May 03, 2023 8:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Come on, own up ...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 846
Re: Come on, own up ...
Hmpf! I wish I was only 65.
- Tue May 02, 2023 10:22 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: WRT stories
- Replies: 33
- Views: 4783
Re: WRT stories
So this is was a Biggy! My 9th consecutive WRT. :-bd Also my 100th BaM, so I thought it worth making a bit of an effort. With that in mind, I packed a bit more food than usual. I would be accompanied by my son/minder Mike and we would make a special meal to celebrate. In addition to my normal load, ...
- Tue May 02, 2023 10:09 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205386
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
April - Done. On the WRT. :-bd Bivvy 1... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52864175980_7c8b0b1ea6.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52863795206_f0d125e058.jpg See the slope under my Hammock? Well in the night I got the most god-awful cramps in both legs. I was in agony. To try and ease them...
- Mon May 01, 2023 10:39 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Ta from the Tower's.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1614
Re: Ta from the Tower's.
And Ta from the Team. :-bd :-bd :-bd This was my ninth consecutive WRT and I don't want to imagine a May bank holiday without one. It's a major highlight of my year and my son Michael, who has come with me (as minder) for the last 3, has already asked if I'll be doing the next one. So, Ta! :grin: :g...
- Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:31 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Todays ride
- Replies: 3325
- Views: 662386
Re: Todays ride
Not a BaM but a "Todays Ride" because Aprils BaM is a biggie and I want to make a bit more of an effort for that one> In short - afternoon train to Church Stretton, ride (push) up Carding Mill Valley, up over Pole Bank https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52819049925_b36d867c6c.jpg Find a h...
- Sun Apr 16, 2023 6:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 699
- Views: 154663
Re: Wildlife
Here's one from last month. 'S not very good, but an unusual one... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52785519011_d2675f5be9.jpg A white pheasant! It's a bit far away in this shot but I know it's a pheasant because when I first saw it it was standing on the top rail of a gate beside the lane. By t...
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 9:25 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: WRT GR.
- Replies: 75
- Views: 4783
Re: WRT GR.
There’re a lot of beaches in Wales called “Traeth Beach”Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:46 pmI believe areas such as that are quite often and commonly referred to as 'beach'.here is one in the sea (at high tide) but it is reachable off the beach as the tide goes out
- Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:02 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 4022
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Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Just come home from a leaving do for someone I’ve worked with for 30 years. It occurred to me, as I sat on the end of a table of 15 people, that I’ve really like working with all of them for many years.
- Thu Mar 30, 2023 4:04 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205386
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
BaM March 2023... I was short of time (again) so another dash-n-crash local Left home after shopping, at about 4:30, heading to a spot near Llangollen that I'd scoped out a couple of years ago. En route, I would take the canal towpath to Llangollen, find something to eat then go the extra six miles ...
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 7:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you drinking now?
- Replies: 714
- Views: 81370
Re: What are you drinking now?
In Gales Wine Bar in Llangollen on the way to my March BaM. A pint of Auric from the Salopian Brewery. Just the sort of beer I like -an IPA, light, not too strong at 4%, with a nice citrus flavour. I think I might have another before I decamp to the Dee Pizza shop for a chicken kebab wrap before som...
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:20 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Here’s to summer
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1063
Re: Here’s to summer
If it all turns to freezing, wet sh1te at this point ... we know who to blame, don't we? :wink: Give this a go and the "freezing" bit of your description will be least of your worries :smile: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-65091803 You’d have to take some sticky pads fo...
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What you done t' your bike today
- Replies: 1547
- Views: 275171
Re: What you done t' your bike today
Put pads in the oven, 20 mins @ 180c - et voila, perfectly functioning brakes again! I’ve been having foghorn brakes front and back for some time, along with poor braking. Like you, I tried all the usual things from tinternet with no improvement. You idea of putting the pads in the oven at least go...
- Tue Mar 28, 2023 7:55 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11457
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Re: The post man's been ...
... and delivered some books. https://media.bobarnott.com/gravel/2023-03-28-reading.jpeg I’m reading “Full Tilt” too. Got it from our local library. I’ve read it before (also borrowed from the library) but I seem to remember that in the older version, 35 or 40 years ago, there were a few photos. I ...
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 9:18 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 205386
- Wed Mar 22, 2023 9:06 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Whatever floats your boat...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1432
- Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
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- Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:31 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: I seem to be stuck for a wheel
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2567
Re: I seem to be stuck for a wheel
All is well! Eventually. :-bd It took me three goes to get the lacing-up right. Followed the instructions from the Wheel-Pro book but hit snags and didn’t have the knowledge to see where I’d gone wrong so it was easier just to strip and start again. Truing up in the bike frame was easy by comparison...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 9:10 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: I seem to be stuck for a wheel
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2567
Re: I seem to be stuck for a wheel
So I now have a new rim and can start swapping over, but, a couple of things have made it a bit harder. a) The new rim is not quite the same. For one, it’s got more of a curve in the cross-section so the ERD is smaller and 2) the spoke holes are slightly staggered. I’m probably over-thinking this an...
- Thu Feb 23, 2023 1:09 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: I seem to be stuck for a wheel
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2567
Re: I seem to be stuck for a wheel
Thanks for all the tip/helpful advice chaps. Just waiting for my new rim before I embark on my new rite-of-passage that will make me less of a frog at the farriers.