flatfishy wrote:I've got both.

Whilst the Revelate stuff is good, I find Beth's gear so much better.

And it's not a ridiculous wait with another bill from customs at the end.

As far as the bar harness goes, me too. The Wildcat harness is excellent.

I take either fresh pasta, raviolli or whatever types or those uncle bens rice packet thingies. Sometimes I add a few extra ingredients but only if I'm passig a shop soon before stopping.

I've never had any of the pre prepared ones

ah hah, a fellow specialized tyre user. I've been on my fast track for a good while now, I used it in the snow and mud and then for my road / firetrack trip round tenerife recently. Its proven pretty good so far, rolls well. I'd like a little more volume maybe but can always bung another ground cont...

99percentchimp wrote:

He also won't enter a bothie first for fear that someone's hung themselves from the beams ...

Thanks for sowing that seed Stu I'd never thought that this might be a possibility unitl now!

~Agreed, keep them thought out of my head in future if you dont mind!! :(

a bit roadie but I love my KASK helmet. I think its a K50. sooo comfy

I wear a medium PHD jacket, its roomy enough

ordered here too.

Thanks for the tip off :D

An optimus Crux and an MSR Titan kettle.

Ill be sticking with the mug / meths set up for one nighters for brews etc but this brings me a lightweight gas set up for when I think I want to cook instead.

Jury is out on which is best (or none) for the highland trail

Another unhelpful response considering Im a week or so late....

I'll be out in the Peak this saturday, plan to bivi out so if you fancy getting out drop me a line

Quite a while ago I had some hope brakes pretty much completely apart. I dont remember it being being difficult as such, a faf and fiddly yes. If it was approaching the price of getting hope to do it, I likely would get hope to do so as I cant say I like stipping brakes down. The only thing to stop ...

Stu speaks the truth, looking at Aidans route the terrain will vary hugely. I personnally really like Maxxis tyres but dont like the weight of the LUST versions, nor do I like the cost of the tyres! Based on on the pure mileage of the route, I too would look to fast rolling combos set up tubeless. M...

My bar bag straps always rub at my bars. even if I put some tape on there, eventually the strap gets through it. This makes me less willing to use carbon bars, I use Easton Havens that I got in the sale at the moment which are very good. Alu ones dont claim the vibration absorbtion of carbon but I f...

Sorry, just re read. TD 2014, in which case... When's the prep starting?

I'm looking into the timing of getting the time off work to line up myself for 2014. You fancy getting out for a ride and a chat over it at some point?

Nice piece of work there. Was it basically your design with input from rob?

He always produces such nice results.

Also, TD this year? How's the prep going for that?

uh huh. I kind of want the combi bag

I like the idea of rohloffs, mainly I think its the engineer in me that is fascinated by them.
Sooner or later I will get one.

Not keen on the belt drive, as above lack of spares could be an issue. I also dont really like the frame split either.

make sure yuo hide your home location peoples, dont want scummers following you home

2/2 - Managed to get a wee trip over to tenerife. Its a cracking place for a winter trip. We saw temps of 26 degrees, dry dusty trails and lovely roads. We arrived ready to ride, upacked the bikes and stashed the bike bags in the bushes :D We left the airport mid afternoon, did a bit of shopping, ha...

hmm, that looks pretty good. I guess your feet would be touching the tarp at the bottom in order to get your head out of the rain, if its raining!

How long is that pole?

Excellent. Ill have a good read of that this afternoon ta.

Im undecided on borrowing that route or just riding out of the door (I'm just about in the peak) and seeing where I end up

Borah gear 9'x5.5' How did you bicycle it? A frame, lean to? Aframe first night, which would keep the rain off so long as its not too windy i guess. A frame with one side low the second, made it a very low pitch Lean to 3rd night, kept some of the wind off but to get out of any rain would have been...

s8tannorm wrote:

After spending my first few nights under a tarp, in good weather Im not convinced my tarp is large enough for bad weather

Siltarp 1 by chance?

Borah gear 9'x5.5'

I like that too. Looks like a good compromise between and tarp and a tent.

After spending my first few nights under a tarp, in good weather Im not convinced my tarp is large enough for bad weather

Good ride?

how were the conditions out there 24tom?

Depends how close to getting up time it is. The closer it is, the more likely I am to lay there and suffer.

Generally, after a small amount of procrastination I get up and go as quickly as possible