Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:06 pm I see no point in messing about ....

run what you brung eh? the best pot is the pot you have!

hiked in borjomi NP 3 years ago. really beautiful! got return flights london to kutaisi for £80. also visted mestia/svaneti then and want to go back to cycle something similar to the route there on bikepacking.com

i was wondering if anyone keeps their pot and stove on top of the seatpost bag? a good example of what i mean can be seen here at 1min 45secs https://youtube.com/watch?v=pjRHPBiivzM https://i.postimg.cc/KzjSHWqS/20210309-161021.png they are a bit of a pain to store i feel, and while i was previously...

What would you suggest we, as a society, do to fix things? take a look at how things were in the great time reference point of 'before'. before internet, cars, plastic, oil, industry, over-population, empires, governments, money, heirarchies. (you know, 'before"!, when plague was common, all w...

ok if thats the case then i absoluely agree

Very true Dave and I believe the last 12 months have highlighted that perfectly. i thought covid highlighted things spoke about in this david graeber article from 2018 (which went on to become a book) on the phenomenon of bullshit jobs very well. [a 9 minute read] We need workers to sustain any for...

really nice to hear how people are weighing things up or have already made the move to make an early retirement work for them. ive been doing it since 2009. squatting, hitchhiking, protest sites, skipping food (as in eating food from supermarket bins, not 'missing meals'), occasionally doing whateve...

hadn't seen this before, just read the lot. very interesting stuff, well done!

thought about applying for it when i lived in hebden but i always knew it was going to be a tempory living situation for me (2years) so didnt think it was fair to get trained up and the do one.

spot gen 3 user here. i also use that flexplan monthly option where it costs a fair bit (cant remember, maybe 75quid) the first month to set your self up. and to turn it back on for a month any other time throughout the year costs like 15quid a time, which i can live with. excuse my numbers, they ar...

maybe some ppl might be interested in this... https://www.eventbrite.de/e/a-diys-guid ... =ebdssbeac

great, thanks for that

i like maps and am interested in maybe giving this veloviewer thing a go. although it will go againt my mantra of 'no gods, no masters, no lycra, no strava.' ive de-googled my android phone ages ago and since then some apps wont work. most do. strava seems to be one of these that needs 'google play ...

like others said, ride what u wana ride and walk what u dont. i enjoy it. i enjoy the simplicity. and it has really changed my riding on geared bikes for the better i feel. i was running 3x9 before and spent 2 or 3 weeks in my middle chainring and trying to work out what sort of gear i want to have ...

[*]i just got an email about this website today as i musta signed up to their newsletter before they launched. looks really good. wish i had knew about the 12 week online sewing course before it statted. maybe theryll be another hopefully. https://patternadventure.com/en/patterns thought maybe other...

so whats the story with spotwalla now? does it not work now spot changed their maps or whatever?

im new to using a spot and id like to share a live map with a preloaded gpx file on it.

jameso wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:17 pm https://www.instagram.com/kitgrid.cc/?hl=en

not much use I know, but it looks like 'kit grids' are a thing

have those people never heard of dirt?!

the barkeley marathons: the race that eats its young "In its first 25 years only 10 people have finished The Barkley Marathons"

its on netflix and prime

^^ Just watched and rather enjoyed Hold Fast. Struck me as being pretty handy sailors. moxie who stared in and made the film went on to create the 'Signal' app, like a more secure/nonfacebookowned version of whatsapp. signal's encryption method then got sold to whatsapp for an undisclosed amount. b...

holdsteady wrote: ↑Fri Oct 09, 2020 8:30 pm ...I have read recently about encouraging more people to go bikepacking - I don't quite understand why people think we need more people doing it?...

for me its not people but specific people. more people who aren't straight white cis middleclass men

"Cree Hunters of Mistassini is a 1974 documentary film co-directed by Boyce Richardson and Tony Ianzelo, chronicling a group of three Cree families from the Mistassini region of Quebec, as they set up a winter hunting camp near James Bay and Ungava Bay"

maybe i posted this already, cant remember...

Hold Fast

1hr 15mins, some friends agree to meet in florida. they buy a piece of sub standard boat and fix it up and then sail it to the dominican republic (cept they dont know how to sail). very good

i use this £7.44 delivered attatched to helmet wiith 2 zip ties. with a powerbank which i uaually have with me anyway. figured it saves me carrying a battery that can just be used for a light. i just roll up the wire and jam it in a hole int helmet when i dont have the powerbank attatched. when i do...

was gona write 'sh!t' but figured its not quite the weekend yet

excuse the rack/exo-rail combo, im currently between systems