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- Sun Jul 30, 2023 9:23 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
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Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
July BaM done, so 7/12 for this year, with a nice bit of three generational male bonding. Pedal to Chester, to train to Anglesey to hammock-in-the-woods with my son and grandson. De-trained at Bodorgan and started pedalling. When I got to Malltraeth I realised I'd not had lunch yet. Then a chippy pr...
- Mon Jul 24, 2023 9:50 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Cloth patches
- Replies: 14
- Views: 978
Re: Cloth patches
How about just sticking the Velcro on?
I know, I know, but I just couldn’t resist it.
I’ll get me coat.
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:37 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 196972
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Kayak Oar/Long Pole Carrying on a bike
- Replies: 5
- Views: 242
Re: Kayak Oar/Long Pole Carrying on a bike
Whenever I've had to transport something long I've just strapped it to the top tube in two places. Done this with garden tools….. We used to see lots of this back in the days when people didn’t have cars, but did have allotments. Fork/rake/hoe etc on the top tube and a basket on the front or back t...
- Tue Jul 18, 2023 8:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Thunderstorms
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1423
Re: Thunderstorms
Yikes! I got caught in a storm while crossing the flanks of Cadair Idris a few weeks back. It was close enough at one point that I dumped the bike and adopted the position. Hmm! That’s got me thinking, that given that metal or carbon are good conductors, a bike frame could act as a lightning rod an...
- Thu Jul 13, 2023 7:57 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Thunderstorms
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1423
Re: Thunderstorms
Don’t wear an underwired bra…
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 3:08 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
- Views: 499114
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
That'd be great - a ride guide and Spanish lesson combined...pistonbroke wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:28 am ...do you want a link to the book? There's lots of maps and pics and the Spanish is straightforward.
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 8:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
- Views: 499114
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
When have you booked your flights? MrsPB and I have a loose plan to ride it this autumn, it's an area of Spain we haven't explored much apart from a visit to Sevilla 3 years ago. I bought the cycle guide book from an amazing shop in Barcelona, think Stanford's Spain, which divides the route into ab...
- Sat Jul 08, 2023 3:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
- Views: 499114
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I don’t know if it’s all that cheery, maybe scary would be a better way to describe it ‘cause I’ve just booked my flights to Spain to ride the Via de la Plata from Seville to Santiago de Compostela. I’m terrified. Never done a ride longer than 4 days - don’t know how the arris wil hold out, for one ...
- Sat Jul 01, 2023 9:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Songs to play at your funeral
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1887
Re: Songs to play at your funeral
On a not-quite-completely OT note, there was a TV advert on today, for a Cancer Research charity. They said that half of us will get a cancer of some sort in our lifetime but if we all contribute (to the charity) we can beat cancer. All well and good but that means that if we do, half of us will hav...
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 9:44 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 196972
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
At the risk of embarrassing the poor chap (“too late!” :grin: ), for a while I’ve been thinking that I should pay my respects to Kev Blackhound as the man without whom this thread would not exist, and correspondingly without whom the whole Place would be much the poorer. A very pleasant BaM, in a l...
- Fri Jun 30, 2023 9:11 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Songs to play at your funeral
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1887
Re: Songs to play at your funeral
My thought was to pick something cheerful, like Bright Side, but then I thought “Let ‘em get the misery out of the way first” so how about :- Psalm 23, The Lords my Shepherd, and “Abide with me” Ya can’t get much more miserable than that. Then, for the wake, ceilidh music with maybe some country dan...
- Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:38 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 196972
Re: Bivvy a month 2023.
BaM June '23 - Done :-bd As mentioned in another thread, I pedalled up to the dragonfly kingdom by the Ellesmere canal. Bivvy:- https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53008844668_5d41e48e1b.jpg I thought I'd make a bit more of an effort with the food again, so for breakfast:- https://live.staticflickr....
- Mon Jun 26, 2023 3:21 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Wildlife
- Replies: 670
- Views: 136209
Re: Wildlife
We rescued this chap from in the canal between Llangollen and Trevor the other day. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53002941039_88463639e3.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53001244949_740968c46a.jpg He's got a broken wing, poor thing, maybe from trying to swim or being hit by a car (there...
- Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:40 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
- Views: 499114
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I didn't know if I should put this into "Todays' Ride" but decided it was more Cheery than Ride, so here it is. Every year at around this time, I gather lime tree flowers. These are my family remedy for colds - 6 flowers in a one-cup cafetiere taken before bed will dry up a runny nose unti...
- Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:29 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3971
- Views: 499114
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Just got back from a lovely ride to Barmouth up and down the Mawddach trail with 8 family members. 'T was a perfect family day out - not too hot, not too windy, not too crowded and a lovely fish 'n chips in the town.
It was a truly lovely day out, so very cheery.
It was a truly lovely day out, so very cheery.
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 8:07 pm
- Forum: Your Trips & Adventures
- Topic: Bivvy a month 2023.
- Replies: 1037
- Views: 196972
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: 196972
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: 196972
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: 704
- Views: 71157
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: 1909
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: 1543
- Views: 255352
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: 823
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: 4522
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: 196972
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...